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Semester 1
CCST9083 Earth as Seen by Satellite (SCCE)
This course will summarize current observational capabilities, present how satellite data can contribute to understanding the functions and interactions of Earth’s sub-systems (e.g., atmosphere, biosphere, cryosphere, and hydrosphere), and provide the application examples of environmental change at regional to global scales, such as forest disturbance, water quality, natural disasters.
CCHU9033 Countries of the Mind: Texts that Shape the World
This course explores how literature and film inform the ways we understand, communicate, and reimagine our experiences in art and life. How might something become real, from patterns and variations in sound, image and text? We will travel together through universes that range from microcosmic and parallel to the invented and surreal, to discover how we not only consume stories when we encounter them, and to produce these worlds via pathways such as expectation, translation and memory.
CCGL9082 Sustaining Sustainability: Innovations for Policies and Governance (SCCE)
This course takes a forward looking, solutions-orientated approach to addressing sustainability issues across spatial and governance scales. Specifically, it covers new and innovative advances and developments in the sustainability arena and considers how these can be related to policy, policymaking and governance, with a focus on the intersections between society, science and technology, from the local to global level.
CCCH9045 ‘Superpower’: Engaging with the Global Implications of China’s Rise
Will China become the world’s next superpower—and what kind of world order would follow? Explore US–China rivalry, trade and technology competition, the Belt and Road, tianxia, empire and global responsibility. Students will debate competing futures for China and the world. No prior knowledge of politics, international relations or Chinese history is required.
Semester 2
CCHU9006 Girl Power in a Man’s World (SCCE, GSD)
This course considers notions about girlhood from its early biological emphasis to contemporary frameworks that are informed by anthropology, psychology, economics, sociology, and politics; and the cultural meaning and consequences of girl power in both developed and developing societies, paying particular attention to the ways in which the male dominant world has both assisted and hindered girls’ development.
CCHU9093 Everyday Ethics and the Moral Imagination (UQM, UQM)
This course takes an anthropological approach to ethics, exploring how moral life is lived, negotiated, and transformed across diverse social and cultural worlds. Along the way, we will examine the role of moral imagination: the human capacity to engage ethically, creatively, and flexibly with the challenges of life, and to envision alternative ways of living with others.
CCGL9032 Rule of Law in a Globalizing World (SCCE)
This course explores the Rule of Law through culture, literature, anthropology, and history. Students will examine its core concepts, institutional frameworks, and the vital roles of lawyers and judges. By analyzing its local and international applications, participants gain a nuanced understanding of how diverse societies realize legal principles globally.
CCGL9057 Work: From Factory Floor to Our Robot Future
Look at your iPhone. Or your shrimp har gow. Or your t-shirt. Now, think of the workers who made them for you. Who mines the metals for your phone? Who handles the shrimp for your yum cha? Who spins the cloth for your shirt? Behind our stuff is a hidden global network of people – people who often work dangerous jobs for little pay. This course helps students to see the people behind the things and invites us to ask: How can *we* shape the world of work?
CCGL9058 Villages and Global Futures (SCCE, HL)
Students in this course will learn about the socio-cultural, economic and ecological functions of rural areas and how these systems evolved and interacted under the processes of urbanization and globalization.
CCGL9068 Social Entrepreneurship for Social Impact
This course introduces you to the key ideas behind social entrepreneurship. You will explore concepts from entrepreneurship and management, and see how they connect with systems thinking, sustainable value chains.
CCGL9069 Multinationals and the Global Economy
In this course, you will explore how these multinational companies operate across the world and influence globalization. We will discuss the positive and negative effects the ever-growing presence of multinationals has on our lives, not only economically, but also in terms of the larger impact multinationals have on local cultures.
This engaging course takes you through every life stage, exploring real health issues and how global inequalities impact outcomes. You’ll see how big goals like ending poverty and promoting well-being are connected to everyone’s health.
Join us to understand the big picture of population health, share your stories, and develop the skills to make a meaningful impact on global well-being!
CCCH9047Will the ‘Real’ China Please Stand Up?: Interpreting Chinese Civilization
What makes China “China”—its territory, people, culture, history or political order? Explore competing visions of China as a Confucian civilization, empire, modern nation-state, socialist society and contemporary civilizational state. Students will compare Chinese self-understandings with Western interpretations and consider what each account reveals—and obscures—about the “real” China. No prior knowledge of Chinese history, philosophy or politics is required.