Enduring Understandings of the Global Issues course:
- Our ecological footprint is exceeding Earth’s capacity to sustain biodiversity and human life.
- Our decisions and actions matter; they have social, environmental, economic, and political consequences.
- Individuals, groups, governments, and corporations have the power to effect change and the responsibility to contribute to a sustainable future.
- The media do not provide neutral reflections of reality; they affect our decisions and actions.
- A global economic system that depends upon and perpetuates unrestrained consumerism is unsustainable.
- Economic and technological development has contributed greatly to society, but often with harmful human and environmental consequences.
- Indigenous knowledge and world views offer alternatives to prevailing assumptions about how to live with one another within the environment.
- Political systems distribute power, privilege, and wealth in different ways, some more justly than others.
- A just society respects human diversity and recognizes universal, equal, and inalienable human rights.
- There is no them or over there: we all belong to the human species, our concerns are interdependent, and we are part of the natural world.
Areas of Inquiry
- Media
- Consumerism
- Environment
- Poverty, Wealth and Power
- Indigenous Peoples
- Peace and Conflict
- Oppression and Genocide
- Health and Biotechnology
- Gender Politics
- Social Justice and Human Rights
- Consumerism
- Environment
- Poverty, Wealth and Power
- Indigenous Peoples
- Peace and Conflict
- Oppression and Genocide
- Health and Biotechnology
- Gender Politics
- Social Justice and Human Rights