Outcomes:

After completing this class, students should be able to:

• Assess and evaluate issues of peace and security.
• Differentiate between problems and symptoms.
• Identify problem areas in the world and also in academic reasoning.
• Identify faulty reasoning, both in readings and world leader's reasoning.
• Identify cause and effect relations.
• Recognize alternative courses of action and determine the validity and effectiveness of alternative responses.
• Formulate solutions to world problems and re-evaluate solutions.
• Demonstrate thorough knowledge of writing resolutions and position papers.