Unleash Your Potential: Global Citizenship

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University of Bristol

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Unleash Your Potential: Global Citizenship

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Unleash Your Potential: Global Citizenship

The course Unleash Your Potential: Global Citizenship is an online class provided by University of Bristol through Future Learn. It may be possible to receive a verified certification or use the course to prepare for a degree.

Get an introduction to what it means to be a global citizen and the opportunities it creates.

Course description

Find out how to make a difference on a global scale
4 weeks

As our world continues to face some grand challenges, how can we act as global citizens to create a fairer society for all?
Get an introduction to what global citizenship is, and what it means to be part of a global community, with this online course from the University of Bristol.
You’ll explore approaches to globalization and citizenship, and the opportunities and challenges that a global community creates.
You’ll learn about global inequalities in healthcare, science and technology, and the tensions between local and global issues.
Finally, you’ll find out what you can do to make an impact.

Citizenship: what does it entail and can it be global?
Equality and Difference: how should we approach global challenges?
Peace and Conflict: the challenges of global responses and responsibilities.
Forming Societies: questions of nations and nationalism.
Connected World: relationships and tensions between local, national and global interests.
Demographic Challenges: migration and the issues surrounding inequalities in wealth and resources.
Health and Well-Being: working to overcome global inequalities.
Technological Advances: to share or not to share?
Climate Change: the physical challenges of living on a changing planet.
Freedom of Speech: is it a basic human right?
The Religious and the Secular: past, present and future.
Democracy and citizenship: the issues and challenges of our global age.

Develop an understanding of what global citizenship might involve through the exploration of some of the key current, multidisciplinary, global issues and concerns.
Engage with the cultural and political challenges that come from global interactions.
Explore the fundamental issues of some of the key social, cultural and economic challenges facing the world today.
Investigate how to get involved in practical ways at local, national and international levels in ways that aim to make a positive difference in the world.
Debate three different areas of specific health, scientific and technological challenge.

This course is aimed at anyone interested in globalization and citizenship, but may be of particular interest to students who are looking to develop their transferable skills for the workplace and general day-to-day life.

University of Bristol
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Unleash Your Potential: Global Citizenship

Course Topic

Language, Politics & Society

University, College, Institution

University of Bristol

Course Skill Level

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Course Language

English

Place of class

Online, self-paced (see curriculum for more information)

Degree

Certificate

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Unleash Your Potential: Global Citizenship

To obtain a verified certificate from Future Learn / University of Bristol you have to finish this course or the latest version of it, if there is a new edition. The class may be free of charge, but there could be some cost to receive a verified certificate or to access the learning materials. The specifics of the course may have been changed, please consult the provider to get the latest quotes and news.

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