Global Issues: Austria & Czech Republic

The course "Global Issues: Austria & Czech Republic" (3 credits) is a combination online + short term international travel course. The course focuses on the historical and contemporary forces that contribute to globalization in Austria and the Czech Republic. Participants explore global issues such as oil, nuclear energy / nuclear weapons, global economics, drugs, human rights, migration, and sustainability. The travel component includes seminars at organizations that shape the global political, economic, social and humanitarian concerns, such as OPEC, OSCE, IAEA, UNODC and UNIDO.

• FOR WHOM: Undergraduate or graduate students, alumni or professionals.
  
• WHEN: Online dates: May 10 – July 9, 2010 / On-Location dates: June 7-11, 2010

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