Description: This course searches to strength the capacity of students to confront a double challenge that our age of overwhelming news coverage provokes: First, how can they select which conflicts are more important than others and secondly, how can they acquire basic knowledge that will enable them to understand these complex events happening in diverse parts of the world, and later explain them in an easy and contextualized way to people of different cultural levels. The course also provides students with tools of interpretation and critical thinking of a complex world in which only exits a constant characteristic: change. Many centrifugal forces push societies towards nationalism, xenophobia, racism and isolation but globalization is an irreversible fact that will also force people to move according to centripetal forces of commercial and geopolitical treaties, partnership of governm...

Description: This course searches to strength the capacity of students to confront a double challenge that our age of overwhelming news coverage provokes: First, how can they select which conflicts are more important than others and secondly, how can they acquire basic knowledge that will enable them to understand these complex events happening in diverse parts of the world, and later explain them in an easy and contextualized way to people of different cultural levels. The course also provides students with tools of interpretation and critical thinking of a complex world in which only exits a constant characteristic: change. Many centrifugal forces push societies towards nationalism, xenophobia, racism and isolation but globalization is an irreversible fact that will also force people to move according to centripetal forces of commercial and geopolitical treaties, partnership of governm...

Description: This course searches to strength the capacity of students to confront a double challenge that our age of overwhelming news coverage provokes: First, how can they select which conflicts are more important than others and secondly, how can they acquire basic knowledge that will enable them to understand these complex events happening in diverse parts of the world, and later explain them in an easy and contextualized way to people of different cultural levels. The course also provides students with tools of interpretation and critical thinking of a complex world in which only exits a constant characteristic: change. Many centrifugal forces push societies towards nationalism, xenophobia, racism and isolation but globalization is an irreversible fact that will also force people to move according to centripetal forces of commercial and geopolitical treaties, partnership of governm...

Description: This course searches to strength the capacity of students to confront a double challenge that our age of overwhelming news coverage provokes: First, how can they select which conflicts are more important than others and secondly, how can they acquire basic knowledge that will enable them to understand these complex events happening in diverse parts of the world, and later explain them in an easy and contextualized way to people of different cultural levels. The course also provides students with tools of interpretation and critical thinking of a complex world in which only exits a constant characteristic: change. Many centrifugal forces push societies towards nationalism, xenophobia, racism and isolation but globalization is an irreversible fact that will also force people to move according to centripetal forces of commercial and geopolitical treaties, partnership of governm...