It will highlight the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and outline key global development issues such as migration, socio-economic security, technological innovation and environmental sustainability. You’ll be introduced to a conceptual framework called PASH (power, agency, scale and history) that will help you to make sense of these issues and consider how we might better respond to them.

This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course DD870 Understanding global development.

Course learning outcomes

After studying this course, you should be able to:

• use ideas of global development to better understand the interconnectedness of the world and how this shapes the major social, economic, political and environmental issues
• appreciate the global development agenda as represented by the Sustainable Development Goals and key development issues such as migration and environmental sustainability
• understand how to use a conceptual framework (PASH) to analyse global development and key development issues.