Shifting Global Orders: Teaching the Next 50 Years

This mini-course will explore the major forces shaping the global landscape over the next half-century including the role of a rising China, equipping participants with the tools to critically analyze and teach about transformative global trends. Through a multi-disciplinary lens, the weekend course examines how emerging technologies, demographic transitions, shifting economies, and global health and environmental challenges intersect to redefine power, security, and opportunity worldwide. This mini course will not attempt to predict how the future will unfold but will highlight some of the important issues of today that will transform the world on the global, regional, national, and local levels over the next fifty years.

• • Starts:
  • April 17, 2026
• • Ends:
  • April 18, 2026
• • Learning Format:
  • Hybrid
• • Location details:
  • The University of Pittsburgh
• • Type of Course:
  • Seminars & Short Courses
• • Offered to:
  • All States
• • Registration and Info:

  • This will be a hybrid mini-course, and you may choose to attend online or in person. We have a limited number of travel subsidies available for those outside of the Pittsburgh area who wish to attend in person.

    All participants who fully attend and participate in the two-day mini-course will receive teaching materials and resources after the program.

    Benefits include a Certificate of Completion and Pennsylvania teachers will also receive Act 48 hours.