Global Challenge Pathways - information for current students
Many of our courses include the option for you to choose routes of elective study called Global Challenge Pathways to complement your chosen degree subject. Our five Global Challenge Pathways are: Climate Change and Sustainability, Social Justice, Enterprise, Entrepreneurship and Employment, Digital Society, and Global Health.
Our pathways offer you an exciting opportunity to work with students and staff from different disciplines to explore topical global issues such as power and conflict, health inequalities, climate change, generative AI, social justice, global citizenship, and enterprise from different perspectives.
Eligible students can choose to take any one of our five Global Challenge Pathways as an integrated part of your degree programme - which is recognised on degree certificates at graduation. These pathways are one of the additional opportunities we provide for Keele students, helping you to be more competitive in the graduate marketplace.
Each pathway is designed to enable you to engage with a global issue or challenge which connects you directly to societal issues, whilst working with staff and students from different subject areas.
Many of our students can study any one of our five Global Challenge pathways from the start of their course, with some courses allowing you to join one of our Global Challenge pathways from your second year in cases where module credits don't allow it in the first year.
Global Challenge Pathways give you the opportunity to:
- Work with a range of international experts and employers to develop your skills in problem solving, leadership, collaboration and team working.
- Work on real-world projects, produce creative outputs of direct relevance to business and industry, and learn how to drive change in society.
- Enhance your digital and creativity skills for the workplace.
- Link your studies to the UN Sustainable Development Goals, which offer a blueprint for a more sustainable future.
Please note, Global Challenge Pathways are only available to eligible students with a certain amount of free modules in their curriculum, and not all pathways are available to all students; please check your programme course page for details.
