Modular Value: 20 credits
Duration: Term long
Contact hours: 3 hours per week
In recent years globalisation has attracted the attention of policy-makers and academics alike. In this course, participants will critically review and evaluate these developments. Students will unpack this substantial literature to assess:
- the extent (if any) of the qualitative break that ‘globalisation’ marks with the past;
- the distinct and often contradictory processes that interact to produce the effects referred to as ‘globalisation’;
- the degree to which the parameters of the politically and economically possible have been reconfigured by such processes; and
- the possibilities for local, national, regional and global governance in this context
By the end of the course, students should:
- Understand and critically reflect upon the qualitative break that `globalisation marks with the past
- Analyse different ways of defining and conceptualising `globalisation’
- Assess critically the parameters of economic and political factors within globalisation
- Situate theoretically and empirically the different facets of globalisation within their local, national, regional and global governance contexts
Assessment
A 4,000 word assignment
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