GLOS 4221 is also offered in Spring 2025
GLOS 4221 is also offered in Spring 2024
Spring 2025 | GLOS 4221 Section 001: Globalize This! Understanding Globalization Through Sociology (54919)
- Instructor(s)
- No instructor assigned
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F or Audit
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- Completely Online
- Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
Off Campus
Virtual Rooms ONLINEONLY
- Enrollment Status:
Open (0 of 20 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- From the city streets of Bangalore to the high plateaus of La Paz to the trading floors of New York City, people from around the world are becoming increasingly interdependent, creating new and revitalizing old forms of power and opportunity, exploitation and politics, social organizing and social justice. This course offers an overview of the processes that are forcing and encouraging people's lives to intertwine economically, politically, and culturally. SOC majors/minors must register A-F.
- Class Description:
- From the desert of India to the high plateaus of Bolivia to the trading floors of New York city, people from around the world are becoming increasingly interdependent. This course offers an overview of the processes that are forcing people's lives to intertwine economically, politically, and culturally. We will start with the most basic questions: What is this thing called "globalization:? Is it new? What are the forces behind it? Second, we will explore the idea that this era of globalization is marked by dramatic transformations in the ways we work, do politics, play, and communicate. Moreover, we will look into the idea that capitalism has changed significantly, that the division between rich and poor has intensified, and that the sovereignty of governments and the basic rights of people are being seriously challenged. We will also discuss the worlds of immigration, of fast-moving finance capital, of Hollywood cultural production, and everyday life, as they are experienced in the U.S., Mexico, India, South Africa, and parts of East Asia. Finally, we will look at "globalization from below" or social movement activism that works to produce social justice and change across national boundaries. They are contesting the worst effects of economic, political, and cultural globalization.
- Grading:
- 75% Reports/Papers
25% Other Evaluation Other Grading Information: participation, in-class debates and presentations
- Class Format:
- 25% Lecture
75% Other Style guided discussion
- Workload:
- ~75 Pages Reading Per Week
~25 Pages Writing Per Term Other Workload: (two 2-4 page papers, three 5-8 page papers)
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/54919/1253
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 21 May 2007
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