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Fall 2019 | GLOS 1112 Section 001: Social Justice and Globalization (33596)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
Mon,
Wed 02:30PM - 03:45PM
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 120
- Enrollment Status:
Open (46 of 50 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Does globalization produce a more or less just world? How do people and movements advocate for social justice? The global and the local. Gateway course for the Global Studies major.
- Class Description:
- What does globalization involve? It involves constantly changing flows of 'possessions', 'ideas' and 'humans and non-humans' in time and space. It also involves social arrangements such as nation-states, the UN, the World Trade Organization, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and various non-governmental organizations and social movements that attempt to manage these flows. What are these flows? The flow of 'possessions' includes commodities, stocks & bonds, currencies, foreign investments, remittances, and technologies (including biogenetic and weapons technologies). Correspondingly, the flow of 'ideas' includes democracy, human rights, free market as well as fair trade doctrines, religious ideologies, and cultural forms (including music, arts, and TV/cinema). Finally, flows of humans and non-humans include human migrations, tourism, animal and plant movements, water, diseases and epidemics, greenhouse gases and toxic and non-toxic waste. These flows have dissimilar patterns and unequal impacts on people around the world. Attempts to manage them are also unequal. This implies that in addition to the question 'What does globalization involve?' we need to ask a second and equally important question - 'What is the justice of globalization?'. Using carefully selected readings and audio-visual media this course will tackle both questions in order to think the possibility of a better, more just world.
- Grading:
- 10% Class Participation Other Grading Information: 40% short commentaries on course materials, 40% individual 2,500 word essay, 10% group presentation.
- Exam Format:
- There are no exams.
- Class Format:
- 60% Lecture
40% Discussion and Audio-visual media (film and documentary clips, audio clips).
- Workload:
- 60 Pages Reading Per Week
20 Pages Writing Per Term
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/33596/1199
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 19 August 2010
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