This 100% ONLINE ASYNCHRONOUS LATE-START 8-WEEK course surveys ongoing issues that impact our world across traditional political boundaries—“global” issues. Major issues include population trends, economic development and inequality, basic human needs (including access to food, water, and healthcare), human rights, international conflict and security concerns, and environmental problems. The class will follow the background to these issues as well as their current impact(s) around the world. We’ll study how and why global issues impact and shape our present and future.

Specific emphasis is placed on students developing a broad understanding of global issues coupled with developing critical thinking and creative thinking skills and practices to become more informed citizens of the world and gain a deeper understanding of the world we live in today in order to, hopefully, positively influence the world in which we live in the future.