POLS 205: Contemporary World Problems

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Class Program

Political Science

Credits

Weekly Contact Hours

Course ID

091938

Meets Degree Requirements For

Diversity,

Social Science

Description

Examines global issues: migration, climate change, globalization, violence, armaments. Depending on the global situation, the course will focus on different topics without focusing on specific regions/countries, but on their broad consequences to the international community and their impacts on societies around the world such as environment, conflicts, nationalism, and migration.

Grading Basis

Graded

Course Learning Outcomes

Understand the relevance of global problems and their interconnected and interdependent nature, as well as the direct impacts they have on the well-being of communities around the world, including our own.

Develop an understanding of the pressing global problems we confront with such as Human Rights, Global Warming, Slave Work, violence against women, extreme poverty.

Understand, through a mixture of approaches, the political, economic, social and historical roots of global issues and challenges.

Apply knowledge and life experiences to foster personal growth and a desire to be protagonists in the search for the solutions to global problems.

Gain awareness and sensitivity for distinctive cultures and societies as well as their inextricable interdependence and consanguinity.

Core Topics

Key actors in international relations: the state, nations, intergovernmental organizations (IGOs), nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), globalization of trade, finance, labor, and information.
Key theories that guide international political actors such as Feminism, Chaos Theory, Realism, Liberalism, Constructivism, and Neoliberalism.
The gaps between the Global North and the Global South.
The proliferation of armaments, wars and conflicts and their negative impacts on ethnic groups, democracies, and violations of human Rights.
Gender inequality, violence against women and indigenous peoples.
Increased concentration of wealth on a global scale.