GI203 Introduction to Women and Children's Global Issues
This course is intended as an introduction to the vocabulary, geography, and social perspectives needed to understand the complex issues that disproportionately affect women and children across our global community, the challenges they face in the 21st century, and different approaches for managing those challenges. This course employs an interdisciplinary approach, beginning with the historical effects of colonialism and the complex encounter it provoked between Western and Non-Western societies, and ending with an array of contemporary interrelated global issues women and children now face - including cultural, racial, ethnic and religious diversity, basic human rights challenges, economic development, human ecological sustainability, and the impact of and challenges of international conflict and cooperation.
Prerequisite
SO103 or instructor permission.