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Course Name: GLOBAL ISSUES IN THE 21ST CENTURY
Course Number: 62400
Open to: Grade 9-10-11-12
Length: 1 Semester
Credits: 1/2 credit
Prerequisite: None
Course Content: In this course students engage in numerous activities about complex academic and real-world issues through a variety of lenses, considering multiple points of view. The Global Issues of the 21st Century course considers numerous themes that have the flexibility to choose one or more appropriate themes that allow for deep interdisciplinary exploration based on global and/or international topics, national, local and/or civic issues, academic problems or questions, and student interests. Throughout the course, students consider and evaluate multiple points of view to develop their own perspectives on complex issues and topics through inquiry and investigation. The course provides students with a framework that allows them to develop, practice and hone their critical and creative thinking skills as they make connections between various issues and their own lives. Students use the following framework as they explore issues and topics:
question and explore
understand and analyze arguments
evaluate multiple perspectives
synthesize ideas
team, transform and transmit
synthesize evidence
propose a solution, conclusion or recommendation to the problem, question or issue
appropriately acknowledge, attribute and/or site the ideas and works of others
Course Activities: Global video conferencing and activities with students from around the world, international and local simulations and activities, multiple texts, free-response essay questions, debates, computer activities, discussions, group activities, case studies, national, local and international community events.
Student Cost: None.
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