This is a multidisciplinary course that deepens students’ understanding of the multi-facetted process of globalization, the academic debate surrounding the phenomenon, and its impacts in various regions of the world and various social and cultural domains.

 

Format
The course comprises the following elements:

Interactive seminars where students present and discuss, under the lecturers’ moderation, the work of key thinkers who have made important contributions to the academic debate on globalization, for example: Appadurai, Castells, Giddens, Harvey, Sassen, and Wallerstein.

Lectures where the lecturer presents current, important thematic topics related to the effects, workings, implications, and counter-forces of globalization processes in the (intersecting) economic, political, social and cultural spheres.

Reflective viewing of films on globalization: three films will be shown in the course of the term. Students are required to write a review of each of the films, focusing on particular issues each time as instructed by the lecturer.

Student group projects: students work in pairs or small groups to conduct a fieldwork-based small research projects. The groups will present their findings in class. Students are required to write an individual final paper based on the project, contextualizing their research questions and findings in the concepts and academic debates discussed in the course.

A written exam covering all materials concludes the course.