Course Map – INDV103 Spring 2008

Click on the subject of each lecture for the notes for that day

Week of

Topics for the Week, Notes, Readings, Key Events

1/14 - Syllabus

Notes

No class Monday - school hasn't started yet

Topic of the Week: Introduction (Wed) and Global interconnectedness (Fri)

Reading Assignments (to be completed by the Friday of the indicated week):
Global Issues (custom published book) - Section 1 - Langan's Ten Skills You Really Need in College (recommended)
Global Issues - Section 2 - Bentley, et al. Chapter V.21,22

1/21

Notes

No class Monday - Martin Luther King, Jr. Day 

Global interconnectedness - from pre-history to the Age of Discovery

Global Issues - Section 2 - Bentley, et al. Chapter V.23 - VI.26

1/28

Notes

Global interconnectedness - Colonialism, and First Wave Globalization

Global Issues - Section 2 - Bentley, et al. Chapter VI.27 - VI.29

2/4

Notes

Global interconnectedness - War, Retrenchment, and Turbulence

Global Issues - Section 2 - Bentley, et al. Chapter VII.30 - VII.33

2/11

Notes

Global interconnectedness - The end of the Cold War and the Third Wave of Globalization

Global Issues - Section 2 - Bentley, et al. Chapter VII.34-35

2/18

Notes

Governance - Who rules, how, and why?  And who put them in charge, anyway?

Global Issues - Section 3 - Sodaro Chapter I.4 - I.13

******************NOTE new exam due date:   EXAM 1 DUE Friday 2/22 ****************
MAP EXAM 1 IN CLASS ON 2/20

2/25

Notes

Global Governance - Why have rules when nobody's in charge?

Lechner and Boli - Ch 26 - 30

3/3

Notes

Institutions, Architecture, and Governing without a Governor

Lechner and Boli - Ch 32 - 36

3/10

Notes

Globalization and the Contemporary Architecture of Global Governance

Lechner and Boli - Ch 2,3,6,7,10,12
Rivoli - entire book (by end of Spring Break)

MAP EXAM 2 IN CLASS ON 3/12

3/17 - 3/21 - No Class - Spring Break

3/24

Notes

Topics in Globalization: Globalization as Exploitation I - class

Lechner and Boli - Ch 8,9,22,25

EXAM 2 DUE 3/28

3/31

Notes

Topics in Globalization: Globalization as Exploitation II - race and gender

Lechner and Boli - Ch 31,53,56,57,58

MAP EXAM 3 IN CLASS ON 4/2

4/7

Notes

Topics in Globalization: The Clash of Civilizations I - War and Civilizations

Lechner and Boli - Ch 4,5,41 - 46

4/14

Notes

Topics in Globalization: The Clash of Civilizations II - One Planet - One Culture?

Lechner and Boli - 15,16,37 - 40

4/21

Notes

Topics in Globalization: Biosphere or Gaia?: Environmental Dilemmas

Lechner and Boli - Ch 47 - 52, 55

4/28

Notes

Globalization and You

MAP EXAM 3 IN CLASS ON 4/30

5/5

Notes

Conclusion, Student Evaluations, and whatever we haven't got to yet.

FINAL (OPTIONAL) EXAM DUE  5/14

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