GMP 2001 - Globalization and Social Justice

(3 units)

This course applies an interdisciplinary approach to understanding globalization and social justice in the world to identify the competencies necessary for global citizenship in the 21st century. It explores socially constructed systems of exploitation and exclusion-racism, sexism, classism, ageism and more - , examines how privilege, disadvantage and discrimination are perpetuated, and develops alternative attitudes and actions to challenge and dismantle these systems of exclusion and oppression. The course draws critical connections between local and global issues as well as the past and the present.