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Learning outcomes |
This Curricular Unit has the following objectives: 1. Provide a framework for reading societal problems and dynamics crucial to the sustainability of international and global societies;
2. Develop analytical approaches to international and global issues using quantitative, diagrammatic and qualitative methods, supported by empirical evidence and data made available by international organizations;
3. Promote critical analysis capacities about ideas, events, facts and societal concerns, as well as problematization, prioritization and formulation of sustained responses to the facts and trends addressed;
4. Develop research skills, selection of sources of information, as well as techniques for the treatment and operationalization of selected information and communication of results. > This Curricular Unit has the following objectives: 1. Provide a framework for reading societal problems and dynamics crucial to the sustainability of international and global societies;
2. Develop analytical approaches to international and global issues using quantitative, diagrammatic and qualitative methods, supported by empirical evidence and data made available by international organizations;
3. Promote critical analysis capacities about ideas, events, facts and societal concerns, as well as problematization, prioritization and formulation of sustained responses to the facts and trends addressed;
4. Develop research skills, selection of sources of information, as well as techniques for the treatment and operationalization of selected information and communication of results.
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Main Bibliography |
Payne, Richard J., 2008. Global Issues: Politics, Economics and Culture, 2nd ed., UK, Longman.
Bhargava, V., 2006. Global Issues for Global Citizens. An Introduction to Key Development Challenges, Washington, WB.
Lomborg, Bjørn, (ed.), 2007. Solutions for the World’s Biggest Problems: Costs and Benefits, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
Diamond, Jarod. 2005. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, New York, Penguin Group.
Rischard, Jean-Francois, 2002. High Noon: Twenty Global Problems, Twenty Years to Solve Them, New York, Basic Books. > Payne, Richard J., 2008. Global Issues: Politics, Economics and Culture, 2nd ed., UK, Longman.
Bhargava, V., 2006. Global Issues for Global Citizens. An Introduction to Key Development Challenges, Washington, WB.
Lomborg, Bjørn, (ed.), 2007. Solutions for the World’s Biggest Problems: Costs and Benefits, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
Diamond, Jarod. 2005. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, New York, Penguin Group.
Rischard, Jean-Francois, 2002. High Noon: Twenty Global Problems, Twenty Years to Solve Them, New York, Basic Books.
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