Current Issues in World Politics. (3-0) 3 Credit Hours

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Prerequisite: GLA 1013 or POL 1013 . An examination of pressing and contentious global issues that need to be addressed. The structure of contemporary world problems will be studied, and possible strategies for the reduction of international conflict will be assessed. Topics may include climate change, nuclear proliferation, world hunger and the divide between the Global North and South, revolution and intervention, pandemics, transnational enterprises and how to govern them, competing ideologies and radicalization, terrorism, and other issues of the global ecology. (Same as POL 3563 . Credit cannot be earned for both GLA 3563 and POL 3563 .) Course Fees: LRLF $10.27; STLF $18.48.