Document Type

Syllabus

Publication Date

Spring 2024

Course Description

It’s an exciting time to be alive! A random post on Facebook can prompt you to transfer money to a wild life organization located in Australia to save the polar bears in the Arctic. Yet, a basic t-shirt you order from Amazon can further encourage forced labor in a third world country. Whether you like it or not, you are part of a highly complex maze of entangled global connections and forces shaping your world, and acknowledging your role as a global citizen is no longer a luxury but a responsibility. This course aims at providing you with a comprehensive understanding of the much debatable and rapidly shifting process of globalization. The course is designed as an introduction to the discipline of Global Studies, not just as a field of knowledge with historical and theoretical frameworks but also as a set of tools and skills that will help you comprehend the nature of global interconnectedness and navigate the political, social, economic, environmental and cultural relations governing the world today.

Student Outcomes

By the end of the course, you will be able to: 1. Identify key global challenges and how they are interconnected; 2. Integrate information and ideas from various areas of study (economics, environmental studies, political theories, culture, literature, arts, etc.) to describe and summarize complex global issues; 3. Employ critical thinking to build your own evidence-based arguments on critical global issues; 4. Develop a new understanding of global studies within the conceptual framework of humanities; 5. Understand and appreciate cultures and groups different than your own and regularly reflect on domestic and global issues of power, privilege and diversity; 6. Collaborate with your colleagues to produce new ways to value and interact with global concerns.

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