International Organizations 2200-1CV37-ERA

This course is designed to help the student become acquainted with various global issues and the many international organizations involved with global issues and develop an understanding of their working relationships with one another. Special emphasis is given to the goals and support bases of the various organizations, especially those in developing countries.

Rodzaj przedmiotu

nieobowiązkowe

Tryb prowadzenia

w sali

Założenia (opisowo)

1. Understand the extent to which climatic, political, social, economic, historical, and cultural factors determine and are determined by how international organizations perform; 2. Manifest acquisition of communication competencies through appropriate use of comprehension levels in dealing with the themes of the course content and expectations; 3. Demonstrate the defined attitudes, values, and positions that help to determine what one gains from learning about world realities and responses in contemporary times; 4. Develop a comprehensive appreciation and critical understanding of the complexity of the problems the world faces today, serving as a bases for informed judgments and positions.

Koordynatorzy przedmiotu

Jowanka Jakubek-Lalik

Efekty kształcenia

1. Learn about international organizations and agencies; their structures and how they function and are expected to perform, and their explicit means and goals;
2. Have an opportunity to critically reflect upon how the contemporary world organizes itself -- divisions, opportunities, problems, foreign loan/aid packages, and available resources;
3. Be able to make informed judgments about how the world continues to respond to problems, apply its limited resources, form large interest groups, and define best practices and those more ethically questionable in terms of human values, practices and ethics/social justice;
4. Have the capacity to elaborate basic guidelines as to how the student intends to become more of an ethical, informed, and concerned person in his/her capacity as a global citizens; and,
5. Place these elements within the UIW Mission Statement -- especially, truth (s), education for social/cultural awareness, involvement, and inter/intra cultural collaboration.

Kryteria oceniania

1. Outcome #1: as evidenced through the completion of requirements 1 and 2;
2. Outcome #2: as evidenced through the completion of requirement 3;
3. Outcome #3: as evidenced through the completion of requirement 4;
4. Outcome #4: as evidenced through the completion of requirements 1 and 4; and,
5. Outcome # 5: as evidenced though the completion of requirements 1-5. together with a paper and pretension regarding the operations of NGO's IO's in a country of the students choice. This will be coordinated with the instructor in the first two weeks of the semester.

Literatura

International Organizations: The Politics and Processes of Global Governance 3rd Revised edition Edition by Margaret P. Karns (Author), Karen A. Mingst (Author), Kendall W. Stiles (Author)

Więcej informacji

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