Global Prosperity

The Global Prosperity program from UCL challenges current economic and social models that have generated both astonishing levels of wealth as well as deep social and ecological dilemmas.

Preparing you for a career as a global leader in policy, entrepreneurship, the third-sector, academia and beyond, 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.

Employability

As a Global Prosperity graduate you will have an expansive toolkit of employable skills ready to make change across policy, economics, business, environment and third sector, and take the next step in your career.

You will be able to think across and between traditional academic disciplines and apply a range of qualitative and quantitative techniques alongside broader strategic and design/prototyping thinking to find innovative solutions to complex challenges.

You will gain key transferable skills in teamwork, communication, digital capabilities with particular software, writing for academic and non-specialist audiences, presentation, visual design, creativity, as well as real world problem-solving skills and methods for building engaged and participatory initiatives.

Courses included:

• Researching and Measuring Global Prosperity

• Collective Problem Solving for Inclusive Prosperity

• Debt, Finance and Prosperity

• China and Global Prosperity

• Urban Futures and Prosperity

• Prosperity, People and Planet: Conceptual Frameworks

• Prosperous and Inclusive Planetary Futures