21A.336 | Spring 2004 | Undergraduate

Marketing, Microchips and McDonalds: Debating Globalization

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LEC # TOPICS KEY DATES
Introduction
1 Introduction: Why is Everyone Talking About Globalization?  
2

The Cultural Homogenization Debates: Hip Hop in Japan

Guest Lecturer: Prof. Ian Condry

 
3 The Economic and Political Debates  
Part 1: Histories of the Global
4-5 Global Histories Before Capitalism  
6 European Colonialism  
7 European Economic Expansion  
8 The Rise of Consumer Society, the Welfare State and the Third World  
9 Film: Modern Times Paper due
Part 2: Investigating Contemporary Globalization
A. Transformations - Economic
10 Deindustrialization and the Growth of Service Industries  
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”  
14 Theorizing the Economic Transformation  
B. Transformations - Political and Geographic
15 The New Post-Cold War Geography  
16-17 Migrations Paper due
C. Transformations - Culture, Media and Technology
18 Media in Motion  
19 Reworking Networks: From Activism to the Mafia  
20 Biotech and the New Science  
21-23 Student Presentations Paper due
24 Judging Globalization in a post-Iraq War Era  
25 Conclusion Revised final paper due

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