CU Topics for Canadian and World Issues

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CU Topics for Canadian and World Issues

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Examine the list below. Check with your teacher to confirm the topic you would like to choose.

Economic Issues

• economic disparity
• Euro currency
• Embargoes and sanctions: how effective
• impact of free trade (NAFTA)
• Pacific Rim Influence on the North American economy
• role of oil in the American economy and foreign policy
• trade flows

Environmental Aspects of Development

• The Sahel: the human role of desertification
• Transportation of resources
• The Green Revolution in India
• Agricultural Pollution in developed or developing countries
• Environmental Groups: Are They a Threat to Our Economic Future?
• Wildlife Management
• Role of United Nations in environmental aspects of development
• Economic development and environmental preservation
• endangered species
• Kyoto Protocol
• global warming
• deforestation
• Interdependence of ecology and economics
• Chipko women's movement in India
• GAIA hypothesis
• Forest issues- clear cutting in Canada or Brazil
• Oil extraction and Logging on Lubicon Cree Lands in Alberta
• hydroelectric dams- their influence and disruption of ecosystems
• alternative energy sources (wind,thermal,solar)
• Convention on Biodiversity
• Montreal Protocol
• Law of the Sea
• oversfishing
• impact of tourism
• fair trade co-operatives
• organizations (Greenpeace, World Wildlife Fund, David Suzuki Organization)
• desertification in Sahel region of Africa
• water issues (exploiting, bottled water, golf courses, pollution, hydroelectric dams (ie. Three Gorges Dam)
• environmental activism
• non-renewable resources
• recycling issues
• Industrialization, Economics and Energy
• Green Power (alternatives)
• Sweden as a model in industrialization
• Nuclear energy: A safe alternative
• Nuclear waste: The former Soviet Union Dilemma
• The role of multinational corporations in developing nations
• Industrial pollution: developing countries
• Alternative Energy sources for developing countries
• Initiatives towards sustainable development in post-industrialized nations (or developing nations)
• Impact of Colonialism on today's economy
• role of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in analyzing patterns and systems

Quality of Life

• A clean water supply for developing nations
• Why we need a literate world
• Child Soldiers
• Children without a childhood: the issues facing children in developing countries
• The world refugee crisis
• Refugee patterns (acceptance)
• Repopulating war torn countries - the migration home
• Rural to urban migration
• medical care and issues
• literacy issues
• Organizations (Free the Children, World Vision, World Health Organization, Doctors without Borders)
• poverty issues
• human smuggling

Geopolitics

• globalization
• policies dealing with refugees
• The changing role of the UN
• Democracy: At what cost?
• Asia: the fall of the monarchy
• The USA: a nation in decline?
• Foreign Aid
• Human rights in Afghanistan
• Human rights in China
• Ultra-nationalism in Russia
• Cold War
• impact of political cartoons on society
• population issues
• impact of individuals on global issues
• impact of colonialism
• Canada's global connections
• dictatorships today and yesterday
• inequities in the distribution of resources
• Debt in developing countries
• Terrorism
• Impact of terrorist acts
• Bioterrorism (chemical terrorism)
• The impact of the illegal drug trade on the economy of developing nations
• Tibet: A country or a region of China
• Ethnic Recognition and Independence of:
• First Nations people in North America
• Irish Catholics in Great Britain
• Basque in Spain
• Kurds in Southwest Asia
• Tamils in Sri Lanka
• Blacks in South Africa
• Palestinians in Israel
• Dinka in Sudan
• Eritreans in Ethiopia
• Serbians, Muslims and Croats in former Yugoslavia
• Sovereignty Issues
• Nunavut- the importance of self-government
• Jerusalem- a holy city for Christians, Jews and Muslims
• conflict (1991 Gulf War, Afghanistan, Iraq)
• religious conflict
• freedom fighters in India
• suicide bombers
• peacekeeping
• influence of gangs on western culture
• slavery

Cultural

• AIDS: a global problem
• Anti personnel landmines
• Arts and music impact and value on culture
• Effect of colonialism on native people around the world
• Condition of native people in South America
• Human Rights in western culture
• How television is reshaping cultures around the world
• How Youtube is reshaping cultures around the world
• Spread of Christianity (passive or violent)
• Spread of Islam ( passive or violent)
• stem cell research and ethical impact
• Tolerance
• Women in Today's world: roles in various societies