Humanity has become a major driver of regional and global change in the Anthropocene Era. We face planetary constraints on resources, climate change global pandemics, livelihood security, and human well-being are threatened worldwide. Existing economic structures, systems, and consumption patterns are exceeding planetary limits. In this challenging environment, it is essential to ensure humanity's global prosperity and development. Provide people with the infrastructure vital for trade and entrepreneurship to flourish.

Program Summary

Global Prosperity degree is a dynamic, novel transdisciplinary degree that links students with communities of practice in order to generate new pathways to social and natural prosperity.

Global Prosperity prepares you to become one of a new generation of global leaders. Through your study, you will examine possible solutions to contemporary global challenges and explore how much-needed economic, social, and political transformations can be enacted to deliver sustainable prosperity.

The degree explores major global challenges and offers critical historical analyses of their origins in trends such as the drive for economic growth, unsustainable consumerism, and sustainable development. You will explore major global challenges and offers critical historical analyses of their origins in trends such as the drive for economic growth, unsustainable consumerism, and sustainable development. Study models and theories of social, economic, and technological change, and develop case studies of ongoing radical prosperity transformations driven by actors from across the globe and from a range of positions including entrepreneurs, policymakers, business, and civil society. You will also explore a variety of collective problem-solving methods such as human-centered design.

Program benefits

You will be able to:

• Understand how research can respond to global challenges.

• Develop creative, transdisciplinary, and co-design research skills.

• Collaborate on a real-world project with an industry partner.

• Enhance research leadership and communication skills.

• Consider three broad categories of solutions conducive to cooperation and prosperity, namely the market, state, and community.

• Explore the role health plays in the development and human prosperity and analyze real-world cases of the market, state, and community health policies.

Career

Students are in an excellent position to develop innovative research careers within academia, take on important roles in key industries or sectors (e.g. policy, technology, law, environment), or launch their own entrepreneurial and/or civil society initiatives. Students with this degree tend to be highly employable due to the unique mix of abilities they cultivate during their studies, from in-depth research skills to communication and leadership abilities.

After graduation, students are expected to go on to define new routes to prosperity through working in policy-making, management, shared value, entrepreneurship, activism, education, and research.