Syllabus

GLOBAL STUDIES SYLLABUS
Teacher: Hyung Nam Room Number: 136
Course Description
This course will help you understand and analyze the issues that we face as human beings, community members, citizens and workers. The course will take economic, political, cultural and environmental perspectives to examine international relations and global issues. The course incorporates the study of both modern world history and contemporary issues and events. The course will help you understand important policies and institutions that shape our world, as well as some alternatives for change. Major themes will include: power, justice, democracy, sustainability and social change. Units will include:

First Semester: How We Got Here: Modern World History and Structures of Global Power
•World-views, geography and mapping of the world
•Colonialism in Ireland, Africa, and Asia
•The Middle-East: culture, religion, oil and imperialism
•Terrorism and the War on Terrorism
•Resistance and revolutionary movements in South Africa

Second Semester: Contemporary Issues: Globalization
•What the world looks in comparative numbers: demographics, consumption and distribution
•Human rights and the United Nations
•Culture and indigenous peoples
•Area studies: Latin America
•Economic “development” and alternatives
•Global trade, work and food
•Major institutions/policies of global capitalism: the WTO, World Bank, IMF, NAFTA, etc.
•The global mass media
•Global environmental issues and remedies

Additionally, to pass the class, you must accomplish following:
Demonstrate you can write an essay on an important theme in the course. The essay must have an engaging introduction, a clear thesis, evidence that supports the essay’s thesis, a conclusion and if necessary, incorporate relevant quotes and include a bibliography.

Demonstrate you can consistently participate in a class discussion. This includes listening to others, sharing ideas, building on others’ ideas, asking relevant questions, and not interrupting with side conversations.

Demonstrate the ability to understand another point of view or perspective by writing from the perspective of an individual from history, another culture, a different race or gender. The piece should incorporate specific knowledge about another person’s time period, social circumstances and world-view.

Demonstrate that you can write and present persuasive and impromptu speeches that meet or exceed the expectations.

References, text book(s), resources:
World History - Connections to Today - The Modern Era
Supplemental readings provided by the teacher

Student Accommodation(s) and Support and TAG
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