CGW4U Unit 3

Overview of Unit 3: Challenges to Diversity

In this unit, students examine the many differences in the world and the challenges posed by increasing global integration.

Students are introduced to the study of geopolitics and the importance of homelands to cultural groups. Statistical analysis of economic variables in Canada and worldwide help students to see the varying levels of economic opportunity in a global context.

As natural resources are distributed unequally around the globe, access to and ownership of them may determine economic disparity.

The impact of these disparities based on historical and geopolitical factors, in combination with strong cultural needs and wants, have resulted in global conflict hot spots.