Mar 29, 2024  
2020-2021 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2020-2021 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

HLTH 2100 - Global Encounters: How We See the World and How the World Sees Us


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We hear a great deal about how we should think about other countries or cultures, and how they think about the United States through the media and other forms of communication. What we do not often think about, however, is how accurate these descriptions are. Why, for instance, are some countries considered allies and others considered enemies? How does the way in which we perceive the world as a whole affect how we feel about specific nations or regions?

This course directs our inquiries into these questions by: (1) showing which sources of global information are reliable and which are biased, (2) showing different ways we can understand the international environment and how that affects our reactions to different nations, and (3) describing tools we can use to understand other cultures so they do not seem so mysterious or “foreign” to us.