Jul 02, 2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024
[Archived Catalog]
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INST 4960 - Global Problems, Local Solutions
In this course, students learn about complex global challenges that demand multiple and interdisciplinary solutions. These include human trafficking, challenges faced by refugees, climate change, loss of biodiversity, food insecurity and others. We use a global perspective to understand the extent of these problems, and focus our attention on how local communities around the planet come together to address them. As part of this consideration of human agency, we spend time learning about key local activists, their work, and the strategies they employ. We also evaluate ways in which the activities of such local communities can receive broader support. This course provides students with training on how to make effective oral presentations.
Requisites: INST 1010, or ANTH 1010, or GEOG 2400 or POLS 2500 and SR only
Credit Hours: 3
OHIO BRICKS Bridge: Speaking and Listening, Capstone: Capstone or Culminating Experience
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
- Students will be able to critically explain the process of scaling up and apply the concept to understanding global problems in different contexts.
- Students will be able to illustrate connections between their lived experiences and key global challenges, and reflect on the complexity of addressing environmental and societal problems.
- Students will be able to appraise selected solutions to key global problems and assess their own role in finding solutions.
- Students will be able to use evidence to argue a specific position about a complex interdisciplinary global issue.
- Students will be able to apply the research skills taught in the class to complete a research project and create a poster presentation that effectively states their research conclusions logically.
- Students will be able to use unbiased language to organize and deliver a presentation around a central message supported by relevant and convincing information.
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