INQ-260PS | Global Politics & Globalization

Full Title: Global Politics, Globalization and You

Topic Description:

This course will focus upon the nature and dynamics of contemporary globalization. How globalization impacts both the conduct of international politics and the lives of individuals will be examined. Political science methodologies and perspectives will be used to study the continuing evolution of the nation-state system. We will examine what factors drive globalization; whether the effects of globalization are positive and/or negative as well as why they would be so judged; and what students, as either individuals or members of communities, might do to affect the course of globalization. Focus will be not only on how global, macro level processes impact people, but on how micro level action and thinking influences the nature and understanding of global, systemic trends and behavior.

Counts as Global? Yes

Topic Approved: February 2010