Course Catalog Information (24-25)
INTL 5
Contemporary Global Issues
Course Description
This is an interdisciplinary introduction to contemporary global problems and issues, with an emphasis on cultural events that impact all of our lives. Students will learn to explore, analyze, and identify local solutions to global issues and problems, through the lens of intrapersonal, interpersonal, institutional, and cultural perspectives. The impact of race, ethnicity, and inequality in world affairs, the processes of economic development and globalization, the environmental impacts of human activities, and people's experiences of war and peace will be analyzed. Consideration of various cultural points of view on processes of interdependent changes in our lives at global, regional, national, and local levels will be encouraged.
Student Learning Outcomes
- Analyze cultural, political, social, economic and environmental dimensions of global issues and problems.
- Critique the formal and informal structures which dominate global interactions, including the World Bank, IMF, WTO, as well as informal structures such as the drug trade, human trafficking, and flows of people who are both immigrants and refugees.
Course Details
- Units
- 4 Units
- Hours
- Weekly Lecture Hours: 4
- Weekly Lab Hours: 0
- Gen Ed
- General Education Class
- Program Status
- Program Applicable
- Credit
- Credit - Degree Applicable
- Transferability
- Transferable to both UC and CSU
- Grading Method
- Letter Grading
Requisite and Advisory
- Advisory(ies)
- EWRT 1A or EWRT 1AH or ESL 5
- Prerequisite(s)
- Corequisite(s)
Limitations on Enrollment and Entrance Skills
- Limitation(s) on Enrollment
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