This course provides an introductory and interdisciplinary overview of the global forces that shape our lives. It will focus on topics including but not limited to humanitarianism, peace and security, international development, trade, foreign policy and democracy-promotion. Course readings and discussions will allow students to examine how state and non-state actors confront complex global challenges. The assignments in this course will develop students' critical thinking skills.
Students will examine the major issues and debates in global affairs, with the course topic varying to reflect recent developments globally. Students will learn how state and non-state actors make decisions in global affairs, the content of global affairs policies and their impacts. Through a variety of practical and research-based assignments students will analyze and evaluate complex global issues confronting our world.
In this course students are required to select a current problem in global affairs confronting either state or non-state actors. In the course, students will analyze these problems across dimensions of global economy and markets, global institutions, global politics and global civil society to develop holistic solutions. With the topic being self-selected and work being self-guided, students in this course will demonstrate independent learning and gain the experience-based skills needed to investigate how a concept/issue in global affairs plays out in contemporary politics, policy, and governance.
Students will examine the major issues and debates in global affairs, with the course topic varying to reflect recent developments globally. Through a variety of empirical and theoretical readings and assignments students will be challenged to analyze and evaluate complex global issues confronting our world.