Introduction to the course.
Watch: BBC film clip on "anti-globalization" protests in Genoa in 2001 and film clip from The Commanding Heights
Highly Recommended : Nayan Chanda, Globalization in the Mirror of History - Part 1 Part 2 (requires Internet explorer)
Tasks to complete by the end of the week (please read carefully):
1 ) Access the course website and read the course homepage carefully. Familiarize yourself with the course website's navigation structure and contents. Check out the toolbar links on the left for future reference. Bookmark this page to check for regular updates at least once a week.
2) Check and update your email address (if necessary) at https://www.acs.rutgers.edu/studentdir/ (this is important for receiving course emails--Note: this URL has been updated and should work)
3 ) Register at the New York Times website if you haven't done so before. It is free, but remember your username and password.
4 ) Familiarize yourself with the department's Web-Enhanced Curriculum and the department's policies on plagiarism and proper citation. You are responsible for knowing and understanding these policies.
5 ) Declare your major if you haven't already by going to the registrar's office and asking to be listed as a sociology major (920) or criminal justice major (202). This will allow you to receive periodic messages from the department of interest to majors.

Film: Emerging Powers: India
Get going on next Tuesday's readings
Post a message on the Globalization and Me WebCT bulletin board by 10:00 pm Sunday night (respond to my posting there)

Issues and Debates in the Study of Globalization
Read and come prepared to discuss the following four statements about globalization (don't leave this to the last minute) :
Thomas L. Friedman, excerpt from The Lexus and the Olive Tree (1999) (you may have to print it in "landscape" format);
Samuel P. Huntington, "The Clash of Civilizations (excerpts)," Foreign Affairs (Summer 1993), available in WebCT Library
Benjamin Barber, "Jihad vs McWorld," Atlantic Monthly (March 1992) (use print icon at bottom)
David Held et al., pp. 1-10 of "Introduction" to Global Transformations (Polity Press, 1999) pdf file
No Powerpoint Presentation today.

Tues. Jan 30

Central Claims of Globalism/Neoliberalism
Read: Susan George, "A Short History of Neoliberalism," in Amy Offner et al., Real World Globalization, 8th ed. (Dollars and Sense, 2004). WebCT Library.
Steger, Chapter 3
Powerpoint Presentation - PDF-Handout

The Institutional Infrastructure of Globalization
Read: Dollars and Sense Collective, "The ABCs of the Global Economy," in Amy Offner et al., Real World Globalization, 8th ed. (Dollars and Sense, 2004). WebCT Library and
Amartya Sen, "How to Judge Globalism," The American Prospect (January 2002)
Explore: websites of the WTO, the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the United Nations.
Films: Selections from Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy (chapters 15, 16) and World Bank promotional film
Powerpoint Presentation - PDF-Handout

Neoliberalism in Practice
Read: Robert Wood, "Cruise Tourism: A Paradigmatic Case of Globalization?" [WebCT Library]
Film: Excerpt from Bill Moyers NOW: Water War in Bolivia: Leasing the Rain (July 5, 2002) [WebCT Film Clips]
Powerpoint Presentation - PDF-Handout

Thurs. Feb. 8

Exam Study Guide and Essay Questions available

Varieties of "Anti" and Alternative Globalization/Exam Review
Read: Steger, Chapters 4-6 (skim).
Print out and examine: Globalization viewpoints diagram (pdf)
Online Deutsche Welle film clip on "anti-globalization" protests in Genoa in 2001
Note: no new PowerPoint

Tues. Feb 20

Women and Globalization
Films: Bill Moyers NOW on Globalization and Women (Sept. 5, 2003)
Get started reading the Amy Chua book

Ethnonationalism and the West
Read: Amy Chua, Part 3 introduction, Chapters 9, 11, 12, Afterward (pp. 187-210, 229-294).
Powerpoint Presentation - PDF-Handout

Tues Mar 27
and
Thurs. Mar 29

Take-Home Exam available

Globalization and Culture
Read: Jan Nederveen Pieterse, "Globalization and Culture: Three Paradigms," Chapter 3 in his Globalization and Culture: Global Melange (Rowman and Littlefield, 2004). [WebCT Library] and
Ian Fisher, "Altamura Journal: The Bread Is Famously Good, but It Killed McDonald's," New York Times (January 12, 2006). [WebCT Library]
Films: Trekking on Tradition and 1-800-India
No PowerPoints this week

Tues. Apr 3 and
Thurs. Apr 5

The European Union: An Alternative Model of Globalization?
Tuesday Powerpoint Presentation - PDF-Handout
Note: take-home exam must be delivered by the beginning of class on April 3. All others will be penalized.
Read for Thursday: Rick Steves, "How Travel Changed My Perspective and Politics" (click on "feedback" to see how some of his countrymen have responded). Strongly encouraged: start the discussion of this article Wednesday night on the WebCT bulletin board. plus
Sarah Anderson, "The Equity Factor and Free Trade: What the Europeans Can Teach Us," World Policy Journal (Fall 2003) [WebCT Library] and
Rob Kroes, "European Anti-Americanism: What's New?" Journal of American History (Sept. 2006). [WebCT Library]
Thurs: Come prepared to discuss these articles (No PowerPoint)
Video: Jim Hightower on US in Iraq (a view shared by many Europeans)