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This course fulfills the Category I General Education Requirement.

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This course will review the current state of globalization and examine the history of its development. We will focus on a series of questions not only about the actual processes but about the growing awareness of them, and the consequences of this awareness.

In answering these questions, we will distinguish between conscious campaigns to cover the world (religious and political: e.g. Islam, Christianity, Communism) and unplanned diffusion of processes, such as trade, capitalism, tourism and the internet.

The body of the course will deal with a series of analytical types of globalization, reviewing both the pre-modern and contemporary history of these processes.

Topics include:

• Demographic processes (diasporas and other large scale movements of individuals and populations, for territory, trade or labor).
• Political and military processes of conquest and integration.
• Commercial and financial processes, international investment, capitalism and the corporation.
• Processes of cultural diffusion and the movement of ideas in language, religion and political systems.
• Ecological consequences of globalization.
• War and ethnopolitical conflict.
• Inequality and poverty as global issues.
• Emergence of globalization in music, sports and fashion.

Students must register for both a lecture and a recitation.

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