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Jun 18, 2025
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CANM 240 - Global Solutions
Addressing the Global Challenges of Our Time
Credits: 4
Prerequisites: Prior skills or knowledge required: Basic computer skills
Delivery mode: On-Campus and Online
Fees: Lab fee: $20 if enrolled on-campus
The Global Solutions course seeks to answer the question, why aren’t we doing enough to avoid the ongoing consequences of climate change, the depletion of natural resources and ecosystems, and the loss of biodiversity? Any reasonable person can see that the need is great, the solutions are available or within reach, and the consequence of not doing enough will be severely detrimental to life as we know it. Every day there are stories about the declining state of our world and growing evidence of the negative impacts of global warming. Millions of lives are being impacted by the unsustainable use of the planet’s resources on an unprecedented scale and at breakneck speed. These global imbalances and lack of access to resources challenge the human dignity and self-development of hundreds of millions of people. Are there alternatives that provide self-determination, resource sufficiency, the regeneration of natural systems, and just and sustainable practices at every level of society? This course provides a critical understanding of the pressing issues of our world and its people and examines potential solutions that are regenerative for people and the planet. Debate, self-determined research, and course assignments will test all assumptions, examine counterarguments, and open paths for a student to determine their own trajectory. We enable you to discover and integrate new knowledge and experience and to determine what part you wish to play in the great project of this century, one that we all know we need to achieve for the good of humanity.
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