Location via proxy:   [ UP ]  
[Report a bug]   [Manage cookies]                

Contemporary World

Download as docx, pdf, or txt
Download as docx, pdf, or txt
You are on page 1of 2

LEARNING OUTCOMES TOPIC METHODOLOGY RESOURCES ASSESSMENT

PRELIM
INTRODUCTION
- Introduce self to classmates and Course overview Classroom sharing (Introductions) Course syllabus
teachers
- List expectations for the course - Classroom Lecture Introduce textbook: Manfred Stegger,
Recall course rules policies Paul Battersby, and Joseph M.
- Write a personal definition of Personal concept map of globalization: Students will engage in a free Siracusa, eds. 2014.The SAGE
globalization based on a concept map association exercise of ideas they associate with “globalization.” Handbook of Globalization. Two vols.
Based on the concepts they list, they will synthesize a personal Thousand Oaks: SAGE.
definition of the concept.

- Differentiate the competing Introduction to Lecture LCD Projector Quiz on the


conceptions of globalization the Study of reading
- Identify the underlying philosophies Globalization News report critique: Students will find and read three newspaper Reading Materials Chapter 2 of materials
of the varying definitions of op-eds (local or international) discussing globalization. Before class, textbook: “Approaches to the Study of
globalization they will write 50-word summaries of each op-ed, identifying what Globalization” by Manfred B. Steger Recitation
- Agree on a working definition of the underlying definitions of globalization the op-ed writers use. Steger, Manfred B. “Ideologies of
globalization for the course Globalization.” 2005. Journal of
Political Ideologies 10(1): 11–30.

THE STRUCTURES OF GLOBALIZATION


- Define economic globalization The Global Lecture/discussion Reading Materials Chapter 9 of Recitation
- Identify the actors that facilitate Economy textbook: “The Globalization of
economic globalization - Define the Debate: The students will debate the motion “That global free trade Economic Relations” by István
modern world system has done more harm than good.” Benczes Wallerstein, Immanuel.
- Articulate a stance on global 2004. “The Modern World-System as
economic integration a Capitalist World Economy:
Production, SurplusValue, and
Polarization.” In WorldSystems
Analysis: An Introduction. Durham &
London: Duke University Press, pp.
23-41.
- Explain the role of international Market Lecture/discussion LCD Projector Quiz on the
financial institutions in the creation of a Integration reading
global economy Film viewing and discussion Reading Materials: Chapter 17 of materials
- Narrate a short history of global textbook: “The Rise of the Global
market integration in the twentieth Corporation” by Deane Neubauer Recitation
century Bello, Walden F. 2006. “The Multiple
- Identify the attributes of global Crises of Global Capitalism.” In
corporations Deglobalization: Ideas for a New
World Economy. Quezon City: Ateneo
de Manila University Press, pp. 1-31.

Film: “The Corporation” directed by


Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott
- Explain the effects of globalization on The Global Lecture/discussion LCD Projector Quiz on the
governments Interstate System reading
- Identify the institutions that govern Reading Materials Chapter 7 of materials
international relations textbook: “Governments and Citizens
- Differentiate internationalism from in a Globally Interconnected World of Recitation
globalism States” by Hans Schattle Mazower,
Mark. 2006. “An International
Civilization? Empire, Internationalism
and the Crisis of the Mid-Twentieth
Century.” International Affairs 82(3):
553–566.

- Identify the roles and functions of the Contemporary Lecture/discussion LCD Projector Quiz on the
United Nations Global Reading Materials Chapter 29 of reading
- Identify the challenges of global Governance textbook: “The United Nations Meets materials
governance in the twenty-first century the Twenty-first Century: Confronting
- Explain the relevance of the state the Challenges of Global Governance” Recitation
amid globalization by Thomas G. Weiss and Ramesh
Thakur Hobsbawm, Eric J. 1996. “The
Future of the State.” Development
and Change 27(2): 267–278.

MIDTERM

You might also like