Skip to Main Content

Extended Essay: Step 1 - Choose a subject

Subjects Available

Group

Subject which can be taken

You can also choose to write an Interdisciplinary

WORLD STUDIES  EXTENDED ESSAY (WSEE)

Here you are focusing on researching and writing about a local example of a major global issue - such issue could include:

Global health crisis

Climate change

Terrorism

Energy migration

Migration

Global health problems

Disaster relief and rehabilitation

Civil protest and unrest

Global financial crisis

Disadvantaged groups

Infringements on human rights

Discrimination and persecution

 The perspective of just one subject may not be adequate to address complex issues like these. The WSEE will require you to bring together aspects of different disciplines to examine your chosen topic.

The IB recommends that you use two IB Diploma Programme subjects, one of which you must be studying.

You're not expected to address the topic in its full complexity, but you should aim to generate understandings that are new to you.

It would be very easy for you to rely on common-sense understanding of a global issue or more informal insights. However, the academic nature of the EE requires you to understand a global issue through disciplinary lenses.

Group 1

Category 1,2,3 English

Category 1,2,3 Chinese

Category 1,2,3 French

Group 2

French B

Spanish B

English B

Chinese B

Group 3

Geography

History

Business and Management

Economics

Psychology

Group 4

Chemistry

Biology

Physics

SEHS

Design

Computer Studies

Group 5

Maths

Group 6

Visual Arts

Theatre

Music

Film

EE Choices Worldwide 2023

EE Global Stats