THE POLITICS OF INEQUALITY

Catalog description

This course introduces students to national and transnational politics and policies that produce wealth, poverty and inequality. Along the way, it examines a range of sustainable development goals including, but not limited to, the elimination of poverty and hunger, access to quality education, decent work, reduced inequalities and responsible consumption and production. The course reviews different national or transnational case studies to assess different views and approaches to these goals. Consideration is given to them as a complex set of interconnected issues that involve education, occupation, well-being and the distribution of wealth in society. Additionally, the course examines political and policy issues that are barriers to reducing inequality.