Marketing, Microchips and McDonalds: Debating Globalization

Calendar

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