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Global Awareness (GEOG 300) is designed to broaden and deepen students’ understanding of the world at large. In this course we investigate an array of pressing global challenges in a variety of places around the world. The issues we address range from stresses put on the environment by a population growth and resource exploitation, the global political economy, territorial conflicts, efforts at transnational cooperation, and fundamental questions of values and visions for a future that will increasingly be shared by a global citizenry. While the primary focus of this course is examining crucial global issues that impact us in the 21st century, we also investigate important historical-geographic processes that gave rise to the contemporary world, exploring and considering the enduring effects of phenomena such as colonialism and imperialism, the diffusion of the modern nation-state, and rise of the modern global economy. In the process, we confront, consider, and evaluate fundamentally problematic concepts such as “modernity” and “globalization.”

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