The document outlines 15 key global concepts that are highlighted throughout the year in global studies. These concepts include interdependence, culture, scarcity, empathy, change, environment, diversity, identity, technology, power, political systems, human rights, choice, justice, and citizenship. The purpose of global studies is to develop understanding of other cultures and insights into lives that may be different but also similar to our own.

1. Global Concepts

2. Today as never before, the world’s diverse cultures affect each other in many different ways.