Introduction to Global Studies

Course Description

The 21st century is an age of globalization. Individuals no longer live their lives exclusively within local and national communities, but are touched by, and interact with, states, groups, firms and individuals across the world. In the area of international security, states have always fought, and prepared to fight, wars with other states, but in the 21st century these interstate wars have been joined by both increasingly destructive civil wars within countries, and by international and global terrorism perpetrated by non-state actors. In the economic realm, recent decades have witnessed a dramatic opening of almost all the world's economies to flows of international trade, finance, and people, such that all of us are now touched, in one way or another, by developments in the global economy. In the realm of culture, centuries-old national cultures, languages and traditions that have shaped people's world views are increasingly coming into contact - via increased travel, mass communications, and the internet - with cultural impacts from other countries.

Code

GBST 2001

Credits

3

Subject

GBST

Programs That Include This Course

• Bachelor's Bachelor of Arts in Global Studies
• Minor Minor in Global Studies