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SO20206 GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES

Supplementary Subject Learning Area of Social Studies
Level M.3 Semester 2 40 periods : 1 credit

The learning area of this course is aimed at innovating and stimulating skills-based programme that
can be used to explore current issues and develop vital skills. Provide the students an opportunity to
explore the perspective of cultures, both familiar and unfamiliar, form their own personal opinion to
opinions of others on the other side of the world. All whilst developing their critical thinking and research
skills. Moreover, student will develop their ability to think critically and creatively, to research efficiently
and effectively, to collaborate and work well with others, to present their ideas to others. Also develop to
open-mindedness and learn to consider issues from other perspective, express their own opinions on issues
of global importance, gain an independent world-view and become global thinker, and learn how to inform
others, raise awareness and take action on issues to develop their thinking skills towards the 21st century.
The teaching procedures introduced in this course focus on acquiring and developing skills rather
than on subject knowledge. Student will develop skill by investigating the Local, National, and Global
perspectives on seven main topics. The topics are including to contents: use the five senses to help
remembering, breaking large amount of information into manageable pieces, use five key questions strategy
and develop the six stages strategy, explore blogs to see what are they reflecting about and how they
reflect, keeping blog and adding regularly at least once per week, Strengths/ success and
limitations/weakness or failures when evaluating something, Questioning about the evidence and reasoning
is strong or weak, and why, Explore different kind of evidence about the same issue. These topics can
include wide range of issues, and student will be able to explore each topic in a way that suits their own
areas of interest.

The course also enables students to instill the desirable characteristics, including to be successful
in the world that they live in, seeing and understanding how the world works and how we are all
interconnected through trade, media, the internet, travel and politics. Broadening their sense of normal,
their idea of how to interact with others, seeing a company operate in different regions of the world. All of
these things are hugely beneficial to being employable in the 21st century, and being healthy and well-
balanced.

Learning Outcomes

1. Analyze the process of globalization by using different theoretical perspectives and debates on a
broad range of issues (including issues of dependence and interdependence);
2. Demonstrate an understanding of the world from a specific non-U.S. and non-Western European
viewpoint.
3. Identify the main idea, analyze the essence, interpret and express opinions from listening to and
reading texts.
4. Recognize topic-based vocabulary and develop strategies for working out the meaning of words by
studying contextual clues or word formation.
5. Identify the main points of the argument and the supporting details and examples and distinguish
fact from opinion.
6. Employ skimming and scanning skills to locate the information required.