- Describe critical ways that the global political and economic environment has changed since 1990.
- Discuss the ways in which poverty and instability have persisted despite economic growth.
- Assess the role of multinational corporations in the world, and explain their relationship to wealth, poverty, and cultural change.
- Summarize the importance of urbanization in the world, and describe some of the ways that cities change culture.
- Evaluate the significance of population growth, and analyze the effects of government policy and economics in controlling population growth.
- Examine the role of indigenous people in modern-day nations, and describe the challenges that confront them.
- Discuss some of the key environmental challenges facing the world, and describe the differences between pollution in wealthy and poor nations.
