Social Policy and Global Issues

3 Units

This seminar will nurture students' academic ability to participate in ethical conversations and to critically reflect on the 21st century's most pressing global social problems, including the environment, migration and refugees, drug abuse and trafficking, poverty and global inequality, terrorism, human trafficking, and child labor and abuse. Students will explore the global dimensions of social policy, elaborating on how global realities impact the policy-making process within a specific country in the era of globalization. Scholarly arguments will be framed around the role of multinational and intergovernmental organizations (e.g. World Bank and IMF) in the policy-making process of the global south. Counts as a Communication Intensive course. Counts as a Understanding Global Perspectives course.