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Course ID: | INTL 1100. 3 hours. | Course Title: | Introduction to Global Issues | Course Description: | A problem-solving approach which shows how international and
comparative analyses contribute to a better understanding of
global security, prosperity, and community issues. | Oasis Title: | Introduction to Global Issues | Duplicate Credit: | Not open to students with credit in INTL 1100H or INTL 1100E | Semester Course Offered: | Offered every year. | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| Course Objectives: | Course is designed to familiarize students with a spectrum of
issues associated with globalization, including environment,
population and food, distributive justice, human rights,
terrorism, security, social systems, and cultural change. The
course will help students enhance their global literacy in a
way that they will better understand and analyze the complexity
of the process of globalization, and help them function more
effectively in the contemporary world. | Topical Outline: | Problem Solving and Education
Based on the premise of sociology of knowledge, problem solving
will be advanced as the purpose of learning.
Development and Globalization
Globalization will be introduced as an extension of development.
This necessitates a comprehensive analysis of the process of
development leading to globalization.
The Dynamics of Globalization
Causes
Symptoms
Effects
Areas of Global Problems
Sustainable Development (Environment)
Population
Food
Distributive Justice
Security and Peace
War and Terrorism
Production and Proliferation of Weapons
Human Rights
Problem Solving Initiatives
Governments and Non-governmental Organizations
Individual Groups and Mass Public | |
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