| Globalization Class | ||||||||
| Text used in class | Films Used in Class | |||||||
| Unit I: Living in a Global Economy | ||||||||
| Introduction | ||||||||
| Examination of the economic concept of scarcity and various economic systems. | ||||||||
| Unit II: Historical Background | ||||||||
| Historical Overview of global economics | ||||||||
| Unit III: | ||||||||
| World Trade Organization Assignment | ||||||||
| Reading: World Trade Organization - Invisible Government | ||||||||
| Film Viewing: This Is What Democracy Looks Like. | ||||||||
| Unit IV: Sweatshops | ||||||||
| Sweatshop Assignment Assignment #1 | ||||||||
| Reading: Gap's Sweatshops in El Salvador (MS Word Document) | ||||||||
| Film Viewing: Sweating for a T. | ||||||||
| Unit V: Child Labor | ||||||||
| Unit VI: Food Supply | ||||||||
| Unit VII : Culture, Consumption and the Environment | ||||||||
| Unit VIII: Impact of Globalization on the Economies of Other Nations | ||||||||
| Globalization Webquest: Examination of The Developing World | ||||||||
| Text Used In Class | ||||||||
| Economics For Everybody . This will be our main text used for in-class assignments. | ||||||||
| Rethinking Globalization: Teaching for Justice in an Unjust World. Edited by Bill Bigelow and Bob Peterson | ||||||||
| Invisible Government:
The World Trade Organization?Global Government for the New Millennium?
[A Primer] By Debi Barker and Jerry Mander |
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| Films Used In Class | ||||||||
| Sweating for a Tee This 23 minute film was produced by a college freshman and shows her trip to sweat shops in Honduras. The interviews with both managers and workers make this film invaluable. | ||||||||
| Life and Debt Although it has yet to be released on home video/DVD, it is winning praise for it's well researched depiction of the harsh economic conditions in Jamaica caused by Globalization. | ||||||||
| This is What Democracy Looks Like shows how America has responded to Globalization. This film captures the violent actions by Seattle police in brutal detail. American citizens are gassed and shot at in this film. Students may be excused from viewing this film. | ||||||||
| Guidelines for typewritten work (MS Word Document) | ||||||||
| Updated: 10/16/05 | ||||||||