How can we use the things we share in common to address some of the most challenging problems facing the world? This course examines issues concerning poverty, the environment, technology, health care, gender, education and activism to help us understand better how to initiate positive change.
How to Change the World
Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.
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No prior experience required
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Approx. 26 hours
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There are 6 modules in this course
Discussion about what our social good is, how we define it and how it can be sustainably used.
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7 videos1 reading1 peer review
Discussion about poverty and the relationship of poverty to philanthropy and to foreign aid, actions taken to mitigate the effects of poverty, of major theorists and economists working in this area and , also, a new approach to this subject through randomized experimentation.
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7 videos1 reading1 peer review
Discussion about political and economic ramifications of climate change, including how to think big about sustainability
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9 videos1 reading1 peer review
Discussion about health care and poverty, considering major challenges that disease presents around the world and the global role of healthcare
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7 videos1 reading1 peer review
Discussion of gender issues and the upward mobility of women, across business and education.
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8 videos1 reading1 peer review
Reflections on where we have been and where we are going
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2 videos1 peer review
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University of Colorado Boulder
Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo
University of Pennsylvania
The Pennsylvania State University
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VP
5
Reviewed on Sep 6, 2017
Honestly, my knowledge has broadened quite a lot on social issues face by various individuals today. I loved doing this course because its a real eye-opener.
EL
5
Reviewed on Nov 22, 2017
Loved it! I learned so much, really valuable information with incredible people. I feel very lucky to have has access to all of this material.
AA
4
Reviewed on Jan 7, 2021
Sure, we need to change ourselves first before changing the world. However, do not desire perfection in either of them. They go with each other like a pair.
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