Global challenges

Overview

The Global Challenges minor allows students to develop an understanding of some of the world’s most enduring and intractable problems in the twenty-first century, and the holistic, engaged critical research, analysis, and communicative skills to address these problems. It offers students an opportunity to hone these skills, to develop a personally tailored centred research agenda, and build interdisciplinary frameworks and practical strategies for personal agency, innovation, systems-thinking, and collaborating within or between communities. The minor will therefore develop the vital role that Arts graduates can play in the world’s future.

On the successful completion of the Global Challenges sequence, students should have the skills and capacities to:

Examine different dimensions of global challenges, and how these impact society and local communities
Research and explain how personal agency intersects with local communities to respond to global challenges in ethical ways
Identify key actions and interventions required to address complex global challenges
Develop a range of creative local and global solutions to real-world global challenges that reflect collaborative action with distinct stakeholders