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2021-2022 UMass Dartmouth Graduate Catalog 
    
2021-2022 UMass Dartmouth Graduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]

POL 640 - Introduction to Globalization

Credits 3
Requirements: Prerequisite: Matriculated students must be a graduate student in good standing. Non matriculated students must possess an earned bachelors degree. Any exceptions require the permission of one of the following: the course instructor, the graduate program dirLecture
Introduction to the competing theoretical and ideological discourses on globalization. Reviews various definitions of globalization, the relationship between globalization and capitalist development, the technological, economic, and political forces driving globalization. Examines the shifting balance of power between business and the nation-state, capital and labor, and between the sexes, natives and migrants, and the global North and South. Asks whether alternative forms of globalization are possible.
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