Global Issues 3205 Global Issues 3205 Global Issues are defined as a framework through which students develop understandings, competencies and dispositions to enable them to participate responsibly as global citizens in a multicultural and interdependent world. The central mission of educating the person-citizen is extended in Global Issues 3205 to the development of the global citizen. Students studying Global Issues 3205 will evaluate the policies and actions of governments, industry, international organizations and others. The focus of the study will be current issues. However, all current issues have an historical context and students may explore this as it influences the selected issue.
All global issues have potential local applications.
Global Issues 3205 provides opportunities for students to think globally and act locally. As international issues are examined students will explore the significance in the local community, region, and country. This course of study seeks to increase students' global literacy. Global Issues 3205 will continue to build on previous social studies curriculum that examines the world as a series of interrelated systems that are physical, ecological, economic, political, legal, social and informational. The ulimate goal of the course is the recognition that each individual is an important stakeholder in the global community's efforts to find solution to issues that affect the quality of life on the planet.