Credits: 3 hrs The multidisciplinary General Education foundation course introduces students tot he most urgent political, economic, social, cultural, gender and ecological issues of our time. It aims at providing students with a good understanding of key concepts such as development, globalization, global pandemics, Human Rights, migration, and security & Terrorism. Some of the issues examined in this course will be international conflict & cooperation, international security, the Global War on Terror, cyber warfare, international economic relations (including South-South cooperation), international law & organizations (such as the international Monetary Fund & the World Bank), sustainable development, indigenous peoples’ rights and environmental threats. This course will provide students with a basic knowledge of these issues, while inspiring them to seek solutions to global social justice issues. Global issues also equips students with critical reading skills to build their analytical and information-gathering skills that will be essential for their upper-level courses.
- Subject
- JUS/POS
- Credits (min)
- 3
- Credits (max)
- 3
- Credit unit
- Credits
- Type
- course
- Edition
- 2026 Undergraduate Catalog
- Catalog
- 2026 Undergraduate Catalog
- Source
- catalog.wssu.edu