Model United Nations

Catalog description

This course explores the United Nations (UN), the world's forum for conflict resolution and global governance, focusing on the role of a particular member state. Students will learn about the organizational structure and processes of the UN as well as the foreign policy and positions of a specific country on key global issues. Students will role-play the representatives of that country at the UN in the classroom, and the learning experience will culminate with participation as delegates representing that country at a multi-day Model U.N. conference held internationally in the fall and nationally in the spring. (Conference location and schedule varies bysemester). This course is open to all majors and has no prerequisites. Enhancement courses, such as GLS 290, may be repeated for credit, with a maximum of 12 credits earned toward a bachelor degree or six credits toward an associate degree.