Course: Unleash Your Potential: Global Citizenship

So far, we have been considering diversity and difference from quite a local perspective, thinking about different communities of people in cities such as Bristol. However, these issues also need …

Internationally, there are many organisations, big and small, which are already working towards the goals and targets of the SDGs. You are also most likely doing things in your everyday …

As Mark explained in his video in Step 1.6, the United Nations is one of the key organisations working on an international scale. One of the most important, and ambitious, …

In this last section of the course, Diego Agosta brings us back to some fundamental questions around citizenship: in this case national citizenship. We began the course by asking you …

If asked, many people would say that freedom of speech (or freedom of expression, as it is sometimes also referred to) was important, a good thing, even one of the …

So far this week, we have been looking into cultural and political global challenges, and the idea of freedom of speech. Increasingly in the UK and around the world, freedom …

In the second section of this week, Rachel Flecker and Jo House tackle the subject of climate change. As we have already seen with many other topics, climate change is …

In the final section of this week, Dr Valeska Ting discusses some of the ideas around the sharing of technology in a global society. It may seem that solutions to …

There are many issues which affect us as a global community. The topic we are now going to look at is one of the biggest: global health and wellbeing. For …

As you have just been exploring, language is one way to forge national identity and belonging. In this section, we explore a case study of when a minority language, and …

In the first section of this week, we look at the theme of nationalism and language. Nationalism and language are often very closely related. How you feel connected to a …

The challenges of global responses and responsibilities At the start of this week, Mark Allinson talked about how the International Court of Justice was established, along with the Declaration of …

Welcome to the first week of the course. This week, we are going to explore some of the fundamental concepts that we need to engage with in order to understand …

Welcome to the second theme of this week, in which Madhu discusses the ideas of ‘diversity’ and ‘difference’, exploring how the terms are seen as either positive or negative, depending …

In the previous activity we asked you to consider if and how twinning helps to work towards the Sustainable Development Goals. Here, we meet Alix Hughes, who coordinates the twinning …