| Introduction |
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Introduction: Why is Everyone Talking About Globalization? |
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| 2 |
The Cultural Homogenization Debates: Hip Hop in Japan
Guest Lecturer: Prof. Ian Condry |
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| 3 |
The Economic and Political Debates |
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| Part 1: Histories of the Global |
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Global Histories Before Capitalism |
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| 6 |
European Colonialism |
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| 7 |
European Economic Expansion |
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| 8 |
The Rise of Consumer Society, the Welfare State and the Third World |
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| 9 |
Film: Modern Times |
Paper due |
| Part 2: Investigating Contemporary Globalization |
| A. Transformations - Economic |
| 10 |
Deindustrialization and the Growth of Service Industries |
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| 11-12 |
Film: Roger and Me. The Rise of High Tech |
Topic for final paper due (Ses #12) |
| 13 |
New Industrialization in the "Third World" |
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| 14 |
Theorizing the Economic Transformation |
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| B. Transformations - Political and Geographic |
| 15 |
The New Post-Cold War Geography |
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| 16-17 |
Migrations |
Paper due |
| C. Transformations - Culture, Media and Technology |
| 18 |
Media in Motion |
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| 19 |
Reworking Networks: From Activism to the Mafia |
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| 20 |
Biotech and the New Science |
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| 21-23 |
Student Presentations |
Paper due |
| 24 |
Judging Globalization in a post-Iraq War Era |
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| 25 |
Conclusion |
Revised final paper due |