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About the Course

The course offers a well-researched and broad-ranging primer to the United Nations system. Consisting of an introduction to the complex UN family and its history, and a series of ‘snapshots’ of key UN functions, which are used to explore important UN themes and help learners develop important analysis, communication, and policy-based skills. The course is aimed broadly at people interested in learning more about the United Nations system, assuming a level of interest but no necessary previous knowledge, whilst also offering offering sufficient up to date research and new critical perspectives that it will also be of interest to people with more expertise or academic familiarity with the topic as well. The main aim of the course is to provide this wide-ranging introduction in a self-contained, but in-depth form, alongside the important practical skills necessary to understand and discuss UN affairs, and potentially lay the groundwork for greater engagement in future – either in civil society or in further study....

Top reviews

SP

Aug 20, 2020

Very useful course with valuable inputs. Thank you very much for your efforts and making it available for free. Highly recommend to those who study global diplomacy, UN system and human rights.

AS

Jul 20, 2020

The most fascinating thing about this course, in my opinion, was how it focused on the singular aspect of the United Nations, and gave us perhaps the most detailed account on this organization

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By Michelle M

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Apr 20, 2021

Good course, could have been a little more longer.

By Malik A Y K

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Sep 5, 2020

A nice attempt to teaching the ins and outs of UN.

By Ivan-Brett E

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Sep 1, 2022

Great course but some data are already outdated.

By Ron G

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Jun 14, 2023

Well presented and interesting.

By Carla L F V

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May 24, 2020

very complete course! i love it

By Suhavi A

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Jul 3, 2017

Its a very informative course.

By Yousef A

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Dec 21, 2022

it is a very helpful course

By Ahmad I

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Mar 30, 2023

It need to be updated.

By Sultan-Al N H

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May 20, 2020

A informative course

By Firuze E

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Jul 11, 2023

Very interesting !

By yann m

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Sep 27, 2024

tres constructif

By Dadajon O

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May 27, 2023

no my full name

By Shruti S

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Sep 6, 2019

Great start

By RAY A J

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Sep 15, 2019

EXCELLENT

By isaac l

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Sep 24, 2024

Good

By Elina M

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Jan 10, 2020

This course is excellent in order to obtain a global understanding of the UN system. However, I would appreciate more insights and guidance from the editors (or University) as majority of the content is a compilation of articles and other documents from external sources to be read by the applicant and to be summarize. It would be even more interesting to have a more structured and much more comments and information on the content that we read. Nevertheless, for sure, the reading and writing exercises are already a good manner to grasp some historical background and contemporary problematics.

By Naomi G

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Jul 7, 2020

The course covered many interesting issues, and I have a greater understanding of the UN system having completed it. The speakers in the videos were excellent and informative. However, several of the links did not work, and the course relied on reading external material, not all of which seemed wholly relevant to the assignment. It would be more engaging to perhaps have more material taught through videos or course-specific material, rather than other sources.

By Elena T U

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Mar 30, 2021

Expected way more from this course... The University of London only provided 5-minute videos including short excerpts of experts' opinion but other than that it was simply links to articles and Youtube videos I could have easily searched and read by myself... I expected more engaging and time-consuming assignments. Maybe including a test type of assignment would help students focus on the content of the course better.

By Amir H D

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Jul 7, 2020

This course provides some sources on the topics it offers on the United Nations. Not so much academic learning or innovative ways to teach the subjects. moreover, many links are inaccessible and need to be updated. One more thing, there is no plan offered here to engage the students more into the topics and few conversations take place among the students and the instructors.

By Elora E

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Oct 5, 2020

Its nice and gives a good overview. however, you don't have a teacher giving a lecture: there are short videos (5-10 minutes) of the university in the beginning of each week and a list of links. the material in general is nice but is a little old and a lot of the links don't work anymore.

By Avni

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Mar 17, 2021

It is a good course for basic level knowledge. However, I recommend you rather go to the UN website and read it through and go to some other articles and read them. This will actually cover everything and more you will get to learn in this course.

By Sakura M

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May 28, 2020

We can learn some knowledge about what's confronting the UN at present from the diverse points of view. It might be a little hard to summarize and analyze all information uploaded in an appropriate form when you hand in your submission.

By Jonathan G

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Feb 4, 2018

Interesting course. However, the assignments were tedious and redundant. Might I suggest having one assignment at the end of the course. Also don't make a seventh module when it is optional! This court was a lot of work and exhausting.

By Elizabeth N C

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Dec 11, 2021

In the course he does not talk about the United Nations organization, helps countries in these cases, about terrorism, invasion of other countries, and what role they play in this situation so that this is avoided.

By ryan c

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Jun 5, 2023

Would like some resources designed explicitly for the course outcomes, as the reading materials from the web often spent several pages covering content completely irrelevant to the certificate