Course Summary
This course introduces you to the large and diverse region of the Asia Pacific and how global and regional developments will affect its future. A specific focus of this course will be social, political and environmental trends, and how communities, organisations, businesses, and governments are working to ensure sustainable, secure, and thriving futures for the region and the constituent nation-states. Your exploration of the future of the Asia Pacific will be supported by studies in futurist thinking, which is a systematic approach used to describe and understand how current trends signal likely future realities.
Although Australia's place in, and relationship with, the Asia Pacific forms one lens through which the Asia Pacific is explored, this course also explores perspectives from other nations and communities throughout this region. You will learn how key players within and beyond this region are influencing and building the future of the Asia Pacific. You will discover some of the ways in which governments, businesses, organisations and communities are interconnected in a complex fabric of mutual entanglement, in which collaboration, diplomacy and understanding at multiple levels are vital for the future.