Course Details

Country: Belgium
Institution: Ghent University
Course Title: Global Minds 24
Course Number: A005569 24
Course Description: This course offers a critical introduction to global challenges and debates on global justice from different scientific disciplines. It focuses on the interaction between science and society and allows students from different scientific backgrounds to reflect critically and ethically on the international and global dimensions of their own discipline and work field. Exchange students may take up this course unit, for which no prior knowledge of Dutch is required. No prerequisites. The course promotes critical reflection on and critical engagement with global challenges and an ethical relationship to difference, complexity and power asymmetries. It does so by addressing unequal power relations in historical and contemporary processes of globalization, highlighting multiple scientific and societal perspectives, with special attention to perspectives from the global South.
Language: English
Approved Equivalent: CULT 390
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