Global Issues: Researching the Global

Description

In the autumn term you focussed on 'identity' to assess the different methods and approaches of the global disciplines (geography, anthropology, development and international relations). In this spring term module, you’ll take an interdisciplinary approach to issues in global politics and societies which reflect the research strengths of the School of Global Studies. You will learn about: global inequalities and modes of injustice along ethnic and regional lines global flows of finance and ideas global transformations, particularly around aspects of development. The module will present the different ways the four disciplines of the School of Global Studies develop research questions in these three areas, and how they generate theoretical and empirical knowledge and understanding. The module will serve also as an introduction to academic reasoning by introducing you to the construction of academic arguments, and supporting you to develop your own.