PřF:Z5100 Globalisation seminar - Course Information
Z5100 Globalisation seminar
Faculty of ScienceSpring 2012
- Extent and Intensity
- 1/1. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
- Teacher(s)
- RNDr. Petr Daněk, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Petr Voda, Ph.D. (seminar tutor) - Guaranteed by
- prof. RNDr. Rudolf Brázdil, DrSc.
Department of Geography – Earth Sciences Section – Faculty of Science
Contact Person: RNDr. Petr Daněk, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Geography – Earth Sciences Section – Faculty of Science - Timetable
- Tue 10:00–10:50 Z3,02045
- Timetable of Seminar Groups:
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 25 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/25, only registered: 0/25 - fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Applied Geography (programme PřF, N-GK)
- Regional Geography and Regional Planning (programme PřF, N-GK)
- Social Geography and Regional Development (programme PřF, N-GK)
- Social Geography (programme PřF, N-GK)
- Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in Geography and Cartography (programme PřF, N-GK)
- Course objectives
- The course leads students to independent assessment of globalization and its consequences. This is achieved through both reading of academic literature and reflections of information provided in popular media, activists` texts or small empirical surveys of ordinary everyday symptoms of globalization. In lectures, the students are introduced to basic terms, concepts and approaches. In seminars, the students prepare, present, and discuss brief papers/projects dealing with distinct aspects of globalization. The independent elaboration of the seminar-paper is thoroughly followed by discussion with teacher and other students. At the end of the course students are able to orientate themselves in both academic and popular discussion concerning globalization and to take a stand to its different manifestations and consequences.
- Syllabus
- 1.Introductory lecture: global processes and globalization. How many globalizations? 2.Organization of the course. Assigning the seminar-papers. 3.Lecture II: Economic globalization: multinational corporations, transactions with capital and money, post-fordism and neoliberalism, and uneven development. 4.Lecture III: Globalization of trade and consumption. Culture and identity. 5.Seminar I: discussion about progress in seminar-papers. Literature and data sources. 6.Lecture IV: Consequences of globalization: alternative interpretations. 7.Lecture V: Globalization of anti-globalistic movements. Case study: Narmada Bachao Andolan and Peoples Global Action. 8.Seminar II: running commentary on progess in seminar work. 9.Seminar III: presentation of seminar papers. 10.Seminar IV: presentation of seminar papers. 11.Seminar V: presentation of seminar papers. 12.Final review. Are there alternatives to globalization?
- Literature
- MACKINNON, Danny and Andrew CUMBERS. An introduction to economic geography : globalization, uneven development and place. 1st pub. Harlow: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2007, xxi, 354. ISBN 9780131293168. info
- MURRAY, Warwick E. Geographies of globalization. London: Routledge, 2006, xxiii, 392. ISBN 0415318009. info
- A companion to political geography. Edited by John A. Agnew - Katharyne Mitchell - Gearóid Ó Tuathail. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 2003, xii, 494. ISBN 9781405175647. info
- JOHNSTON, R.J. and Peter TAYLOR. Geographies of Global Change. Remapping the World. 2th ed. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2002, xviii, 518. ISBN 0-631-22285-5. info
- TAYLOR, Peter J. and Colin FLINT. Political geography : world-economy, nation-state and locality. 4th ed. Harlow: Prentice Hall, 2000, viii, 412. ISBN 0582357330. info
- JEHLIČKA, Petr, Jiří TOMEŠ and Petr DANĚK. Stát, prostor, politika. Vybrané otázky politické geografie. (State, space, politics. Selected issues of political geography.). Praha: Univerzita Karlova, Přírodovědecká fakulta, 2000, 276 pp. ISBN 80-238-5566-2. info
- Teaching methods
- Combination of lectures, class discussions, readings and individual students` projects (seminar work).
- Assessment methods
- Conditions for successsful passing out: 1. Compilation and presentation of an individual project (seminary work); 2. Written evaluation of another student`s project; 3. Incorporation of reccommendations resulting from the discussion of the project in seminar; 4. Readings (ca. 30 pages in English); 5. Written test.
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further Comments
- Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2012, recent)
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