Term 1

 

Week 1. What is Globalization?

Week 2. Globalisation in History: Waves and Cycles

Week 3. Population and Demography: Globalisation in Numbers

Week 4. Globalisation between History and Theory

Week 5. Human Movements: Migrations, Diasporas and Global Communities 

Week 6. Reading Week

Week 7. The Environment and the Age of the Anthropocene

Week 8. Global Exchange: Trading Commodities Worldwide

Week 9. Communication and Technology: From the Telegraph to Internet

Week 10. Long Essay and Dissertation

Term 2

Week 11. Consumption and the Global Consumer

Week 12. Organisations: The Business of the Global Corporations

Week 13. Global Capitalism: Inequality and The World Economy

Week 14. Global Power: Nations, Empires and Civilizations

Week 15. Global Cities as Nodes of Globalization

Week 16. Reading Week

Week 17. Globalisation, Human Rights and International Law

Week 18. Dissertation and Long Essay workshops

Week 19. Global, Glocal and the Global Imaginary

Week 20. The End of Globalisation?

Term 3

Week 31. Course Revision