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Overview

Understanding Global Challenges: Analyzing Economic, Social, Political, and Environmental Issues Shaping Our World Today and Future Solutions

Duration

15 weeks

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Mode of learning

Online

Difficulty level

Beginner

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Credential

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Issues in Contemporary World
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Highlights

  • Earn a certification from Dibrugarh University
  • Learn from expert faculty
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Issues in Contemporary World
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Course details

Skills you will learn
Who should do this course?
  • Individuals studying international relations, political science, sociology, economics, environmental science, and related fields
What are the course deliverables?
  • Identify and describe major contemporary global issues, including their historical contexts and current manifestations
  • Analyze the causes and consequences of key global issues such as climate change, economic inequality, migration, terrorism, and human rights abuses
  • Evaluate various perspectives and arguments related to contemporary world issues
  • Develop critical thinking skills to assess the credibility and bias of sources discussing global issues
More about this course
  • The course on Issues in Contemporary World offers a synoptic view of early 20th-century colonialism and nationalism, anti-colonial movements, post-WWII decolonization, and the rise of independent states in Asia and Africa
  • It explores late 20th-century globalization, social movements, human rights, ecology, feminism, consumerism, media changes, and cultural transformations

Issues in Contemporary World
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Curriculum

Week 1:

Colonialism, Anti–Colonial and Nationalist Movements in Asia, Impact of World Wars, Decolonization of South and South East Asia

Week 2:

Colonialism, Nationalism and Decolonization of Africa, USSR from Stalin to Gorbachev.

Week 3:

Disintegration of Soviet Russia, End of Socialist Bloc in Eastern Europe and Civil War in Yugoslavia, Communism in Eastern Europe, North Korea, Cuba and Vietnam, People’s Republic of China Under Mao, Cold War 1 (Origins of The Cold War: Reasons and Debates)

Week 4:

The Cold War: The First Few Decades, The US-Soviet Rivalry During the Cold War: 1970s-1991, Non-Aligned Movement – An Introduction, An Introduction to The United Nations: Principles and Organs.

Week 5:

The Role of the UN: International Security and Development, The UN: An Assessment and Reforms, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Neo-Liberalism: An Introduction)

Week 6:

The ‘End of History or the ‘End of Neoliberalism’, Neoliberalism and Its Impact on Latin America-I, Neoliberalism and Its Impact on Latin America-II, Economic Neoliberalism and African Development

Week 7:

Neo-Liberal Globalization in Asia, Globalization: Concept and History, Cultural Globalization, Media and Globalization, Sports and Globalization, Globalization of the Environmental Issues, Political Globalization

Week 8:

Immanuel Wallerstein And World System Theory, Andre Gunder Frank and the Dependency Theory, The Bretton Woods System: An Overview, GATT And WTO: An Introduction

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Faculty details

Dr. Chandan Kumar Sarma
Dr. Chandan Kumar Sarma is an Associate Professor in the Department of History, Dibrugarh University, Assam. His area of interest includes History of North East India, Environmental History and Historiography.

Issues in Contemporary World
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Admission Process

    Important Dates

    Jul 15, 2024
    Course Commencement Date

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