Courses
GTSU2007 Fighting Poverty and Striving for a Sustainable Society (3 units)
- Medium of Instruction:
- English
This course aims to help students acquire a solid foundation of knowledge on poverty issues, to understand the critical role of ending poverty in sustainable development, and to develop their own thinking of anti-poverty strategies in the developing and developed countries. The course materials are organized into three themes: understanding poverty, fighting poverty, and striving for a sustainable society. The aim of understanding poverty is to make students gain familiarity with poverty issues from the economic, political, and social perspectives. Fighting poverty introduces a wide range of anti-poverty strategies to help students developing their thinking on ending poverty. Striving for a sustainable society connects fighting poverty to building a sustainable society through integrated solutions, and emphasizes how a society can manage its resources to provide access to education, health services and a social safety net for all people.