GLST 102 - Global Issues

Units: 3 ; Breadth Area: GE-4; 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.

Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: GE-4 - Lower Division Social and Behavioral Sciences, Overlay - Social Justice
Possible Instructional Methods: Hybrid or Online-Asynchronous.
Grading: A-F or CR/NC (student choice).
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.

GE-4. Lower-division Social and Behavioral Sciences Electives Learning Outcomes

Explain how social, political, and economic institutions and/or principles intersect with each other.
Describe how people produce, resist, and/or transform social, political, and economic institutions/principles.
Investigate contemporary and/or historical events/issues from a social science perspective.

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.