GLST 102 - Global Issues

Units: 3 ; Breadth Area: GE-D1-2; Social Justice
An interdisciplinary introduction to the origins, current status, and future trends of major transnational issues. Topics may include food security, global trade, human rights, immigration, sustainable development, global inequality and poverty, and international conflict and security concerns.

Possible Instructional Methods: Hybrid or Online-Asynchronous.
Grading: A-F or CR/NC (student choice).
Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: GE-D1-2 - Lower Division Social Sciences, Overlay - Social Justice
Course Typically Offered: Variable Intermittently

Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:

define essential terms and concepts in global studies;
identify and describe major issues facing the global community;
explain the origins, current status, and future trends of global issues;
describe the effects of global issues on their communities;
evaluate the challenges that global issues present from different viewpoints;
analyze global issues from multiple disciplinary perspectives; and
discuss possible solutions to global issues.

D1-2. Lower-division Social Science Electives Learning Outcomes

Specify how social, political, economic, and environmental systems and/or behavior are interwoven;
Explain how humans individually and collectively relate to relevant sociocultural, political, economic, and/or environmental systems-how they produce, resist, and transform them;
Discuss and debate issues from the course’s disciplinary perspective in a variety of cultural, historical, contemporary, and/or potential future contexts; and
Explore principles, methodologies, value systems, and ethics employed in social scientific inquiry.

Social Justice Overlay Learning Outcomes

use a disciplinary perspective to analyze issues of social justice and equity;
describe the challenges to achieving social justice; and
identify ways in which individuals and/or groups can contribute to social justice within local communities, nations, or the world.