The Evolving Global Landscape

1 Course Unit

Higher education, while a national (or local) responsibility, is shaped by global forces – economic, social, political and technological. This course focuses on the trends in globalization and the ways in which those forces impact universities positively and negatively. It addresses globalization and its discontents; the disruption and innovation that globalization creates and reinforces, and the ways in which global forces make universities more, rather than less, important in the global dialogue of human development. 1 Course Unit