Course content may be adapted from this outline to meet the needs of this particular class.

Readings from Lechner and from Steger

are in your required textbooks. Readings marked Blackboard are online under the “Readings” tab. Other materials are linked here
and within the Blackboard learning modules. All dates are tentative; we may need to make adjustments to the schedule as the
course progresses. Additional information about topics/assignments will be available in class and from the course Blackboard
website.
 
Reaction Research
Date Topic Preparation Paper Paper
Module 1: Globalization - The new world order
Complete Ice Breaker & Explore the Blackboard site
What is Watch: The World is Flat http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/266
8/26
Globalization? Read: Excerpted from THE WORLD IS FLAT: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century by Thomas L.
Friedman http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/about/flat.jsp
Read: Steger Ch 1
Dimensions of
8/31
Globalization Watch: Giddens “Gloablisation”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/video/events99/reith_lectures/globevi.ram
Topic
Dimensions of Read: Lechner Ch1
9/2
Globalization selection
Read: The Globalization of Food & Plants http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/about/food.jsp
for paper
A Short, Short
Read: Steger Ch 2
9/7 History of 1
Globalization Read: Lechner Ch 2
Read: Lechner Ch10
Read: “Coming Together: Globalization means reconnecting the human community”
We are all
9/9
interconnected
http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/about/essay.jsp
Read: “Interconnected we prosper” http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/display.article?id=11008
Watch:  T-Shirt Travels http://www.hulu.com/Watch: /69783/global-voices-t-shirt-travels
Complete Quiz #1 Online between 2 PM 9/9 and 2PM 9/11

Module 2: Global Ideologies & Globalized Economy

Read: Steger Ch 6
Ideologies of
9/14
Globalization, Read: “Increased global trade has actually been good for the poor in rich countries”
http://www.tagesspiegel.de/zeitung/Sonderthemen;art893,2613355
Rationalization, Explore: McDonaldization http://www.mcdonaldization.com/whatisit.shtml Subtopic
9/16 and Read: Rationalization & McDonaldization http://www.pineforge.com/upm- selection
McDonaldization data/16567_Chapter_2.pdf for paper
Read: Sills “Philippine Labor Migration to Taiwan: Social, Political, Demographic, and Economic
Dimensions.” http://www.migrationletters.com/200701/20070101_sills.pdf
Global Labor -
9/21
Global Supply Read: “Lured Into Bondage” http://www.newsweek.com/id/131707
Watch:  30-Days Outsourcing http://www.hulu.com/Watch: /56907/30-days-outsourcing
Explore: Small Screen, Smaller World http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/display.article?id=204
Read: Steger Ch 3
Read: Weidenbaum “Globalization: Wonder Land or Wasteland?”
Economic
9/28
Globalization http://www.springerlink.com/content/lqx6avl31x94mykw/fulltext.pdf
Watch:  The Story of Stuff
http://web.1.c3.audiovideoweb.com/1c3web3536/annie_integration_36.swf
Read: Lechner Ch 5
Economic Read: “It Isn’t a Zero-Sum Game” http://www.newsweek.com/id/156251/output/print
9/30
Globalization Watch: Global Economics - Global Exchange: Free Trade & Protection
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRJZWfqWcs0
Read: Lechner Ch 11
World Systems
Read: The Modern World-System as a Capitalist World-Economy (Immanuel Wallerstein) Bibliograp
10/5 Theory & 2
NeoImperialism [Blackboard] hy

Read: Parenti “Imperialism 101” http://www.michaelparenti.org/Imperialism101.html

World Systems Read: Howe “American Empire: The History and Future of an Idea”
10/7 Theory & http://www.globalpolicy.org/empire/history/2003/0612idea.htm
NeoImperialism Watch:  Newman “History of Oil” http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-
5267640865741878159
Complete Quiz #2 Online between 2 PM 10/7 and 2 PM 10/9

Module 3: Global Governance & Political Globalization

10/12 No Class Fall Break
Who’s in charge?
Read: Lechner Ch 7
10/14 Global Civil
Society Watch: “Civil Society in Global Governance” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qFD0lxt7jE
 Read: “World Government” http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/world-government/
Who’s in charge? Watch: “The global power elite” Part 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbXzhUB9miM & Thesis
10/19
The Superclass Part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcHn1omvUgQ Statement
Read: “What Power Looks Like” http://www.newsweek.com/id/130637
Read: Steger Ch4
Are countries Read: “World Society and the Nation-State” (John W. Meyer, John Boli, George M. Thomas, and
10/21
doomed? Francisco O. Ramirez)
Read: “The End of the Nation State” (Kenichi Ohmae) [Blackboard]
Read: Realism and Complex Interdependence (Robert O. Keohane and Joseph S. Nye) [Blackboard]
Read: Globalization’s Achilles’ Heel http://www.newsweek.com/id/145864/output/print
Neo-Liberalism A
10/26
complex system Watch: “We All Have to Think Multilateral“ 3
http://streaming.yale.edu:8080/ramgen/cmibroadcast/Globalization/chanda_burns_041509.r
m
Explore: World Polity Theory http://www.sociology.emory.edu/globalization/theories02.html
Read: Kofi Annan "No Country, No Matter How Powerful…Can Control the Forces of Globalization
on Its Own" http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/article5586585.ece
10/28 World Polity
Read: "In Search of Common Sense" http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/display.article?id=9809
Read: "Runaway Globalization Without Governance"
http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/about/pdfs/runawayGlobalization.pdf
Complete Quiz #3 Online between 2 PM 10/28 and 2 PM 10/30

Module 4: Globalized Culture & the Rise of the Rest

Read: Steger Ch 5
Cultural
11/2
Imperialism
Watch: "Terrorism, Globalism and Conspiracy" http://video.google.com/videoplay?
docid=6573660441809242121
Read: Lechner Ch 4
Watch: “Globalisation and the Media” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6HRt1bH_dw
11/4 Global Media
Watch: “OUTFOXED : Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism” http://video.google.com/videoplay?
docid=1315719834301238577&ei=Gyg5SoPtJIqCqQL6qoiSAw&q=outfoxed&hl=en&dur=3
Read: Maisami “Islam and Globalization” http://www.fountainmagazine.com/article.php?
ARTICLEID=33
Read: Jihad vs. McWorld (Benjamin Barber) [Blackboard]
When Cultures Rough
11/9
Clash
Read: Al-Qaida at 20 http://www.slate.com/id/2196904/
Draft Due
Explore: “The Changing Face of Iran” Photoessay: http://www.newsweek.com/id/199011
Read: Zakaria “They May Not Want The Bomb. And other unexpected truths.”
http://www.newsweek.com/id/199147
Read: Lechner Ch 9
Read: “Does globalization diminish cultural diversity?
“http://www.sociology.emory.edu/globalization/issues05.html
Read: Fowler “Converting the Masses: Starbucks in China”
http://www.globalpolicy.org/globaliz/cultural/2003/0710starbucks.htm
Case studies: The Read: Young and Restless in China
Westernization http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/youngchina/view/main.html
11/11
of China and
4
Watch: “Jesus in China”
India
http://www.pbs.org/video/video/1092332047/subject/957383727/topic/957390620#
Watch:  India Rising http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/425/video.html
Read: Doshi "Reversing Flows: Pop Culture, East to West"
http://www.sameerdoshi.com/AsianPopcult.htm
Read: “Hollywood Meets Bollywood as India's Movies Go Global”
http://www.businessweek.com/print/globalbiz/content/feb2009/gb20090220_330804.htm
Complete Quiz #4 Online between 2 PM 11/11 and 2 PM 11/13

Module 5: The Future of Globalization

Read: Steger Ch 7
Read: Steger Ch 8
The Future of Peterson Wunder and Mueller Epilogue Reimagining the Future [Blackboard]
Globalization &
11/16
The Rise of the Watch: "The Future of Globalization" Prof. Jeffrey Sachs http://www.youtube.com/watch?
Rest v=8beOXxJeaec
Read “The Rise of the Rest” http://www.newsweek.com/id/135380/output/print
Watch:  The Post-American World http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiUJ2hfEp78
Read: Lechner Ch 12
11/18 Saving the Planet Watch: “The Global Environment with Jeffrey Sachs” 5
http://fora.tv/2008/04/22/The_Global_Environment_with_Jeffrey_Sachs
11/23 Alter- Read: Lechner Ch 13
Globalization
Read: The Port Huron Statement: An Agenda For A Generation
 http://www.tomhayden.com/porthuron.htm
Read: Meyer “How Social Movements Matter” http://proquest.umi.com/pqdlink?
did=546092131&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=15109&RQT=309&VName=PQD
and other Social
Movements Read: Global Call for Action http://www.globalcalltoaction.org/
Read: A Better World is Possible: International Forum on Globalization. [Blackboard]
Watch: “The Global Environment with Jeffrey Sachs”
http://fora.tv/2008/04/22/The_Global_Environment_with_Jeffrey_Sachs
Complete Quiz #5 Online between 2 PM 11/23 and 2 PM 11/25
11/30 Research Presentations In Class
12/2 Research Presentations In Class
Research Paper Due 12/7 Upload to Blackboard by 5:00pm