Global Politics

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1) Introduce the students to the field of Global Politics.
2) Provide the students with appropriate analytical tools needed to follow and understand current events in global politics.
3) Provide opportunity to compare and contrast different routes of socio-economic and political development and their implications for contemporary societies.
4) Encourage utilization of abstract concepts and ideas to understand concrete realities.
5) Identify political institutions in a variety of national and international contexts.
6) Provide opportunity to understand how global pressures shape the political agendas of national political systems.
7) Identify and distinguish dominant theoretical approaches.
8) Provide knowledge and understanding in global political studies.
9) Provide insight into current research and development work within global political studies.
10) Provide methodological knowledge in global political studies.