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COURSE SYLLABUS
THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD

I. COURSE AND INSTRUCTOR INFORMATION

College College of Education and Liberal Arts
Department Social Science Department
Course Title The Contemporary World
Course Code HI 113
Pre-requisite None
Pre-requisite to None
Credit Units 3
Number of Hours 54 hours
Instructor
Consultation Hour

II. COURSE DESCRIPTION:

The course introduces students to the contemporary world by examining the multifaceted
phenomenon of globalization. Using the various disciplines of the social sciences, it examines
the economic, social, political, technological, and other transformations that have created an
increasing awareness of the interconnectedness of people and places around the globe. At the
end of this course, students are expected to engage in various debates of global governance,
development, and sustainability.

III. INSTITUTIONAL GRADUATE OUTCOMES (IGO) AND RELATIONSHIP TO STUDENT

OUTCOMES (SO) & COURSE OUTCOMES (CO)

Institutional Graduate Student Outcomes Course Outcomes

Outcomes
Creative thinker
Effective communicator
Discerning practitioner
Political science CO1 Acquire and examine
communicator knowledge on the history,
economic system, political
system, and other factors
influencing globalization
Critical thinker CO2 Express and articulate
ideas and concepts using
different analysis of
globalizations across the
contemporary world
Ethical leaders CO3 Craft research and policy
recommendations that can be
applicable to Philippine setting
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IV. COURSE OUTCOME-STUDENT OUTCOME MATRIX

Course Outcomes CILO Student Outcomes

CO1 Acquire and examine
knowledge on the history,
economic system, Political
system and other factors
influencing globalization
CO2 Express and
articulate ideas and
concepts using different
analysis of globalization
across the contemporary
world.
a b C
Conceptualize the impact of I I I
globalization to international
political economy
Describe the effects of
globalization to various cultural
flows and counter-flows as
manifested in practices, values,
and beliefs of people
Identify the different forms of D D D
human vulnerabilities in a
globalizing world
Explain the broader conception of
human security and development
and how they affect the global
population

Analyze the political, economic,

CO3 Craft Research and
Policy Recommendations
that can be applied in
Philippine setting based
on the learnings in the
course.
cultural, and social factors
underlying the global movements
of people
Write a research containing a D D D
policy recommendation that can be
applied to Philippine setting

I - Introductory, E – Enabling, D – Demonstrative

V. COURSE OUTPUT

Course Outcomes CILO Required Output

CO1 Acquire knowledge on Conceptualize the impact of globalization to Recitation
the history, economic international political economy Group discussion
system, Political system Quiz
and other factors Describe the effects of globalization to various Examination
influencing Globalization cultural flows and counter-flows as manifested
in practices, values, and beliefs of people
CO2 Express and articulate Identify the different forms of human Group Presentation
ideas and concepts using vulnerabilities in a globalizing world
different analysis of
globalization across the Explain the broader conception of human
contemporary world. security and development and how they affect
the global population
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Analyze the political, economic, cultural, and

CO3 Craft Research and
Policy Recommendations
that can be applied in
Philippine setting based on
the learnings in the course.
social factors underlying the global
movements of people
Write a research containing a policy Term Paper
recommendation that can be applied to
Philippine setting

VI. ASSESSMENT/EVALUATION

*Rubric for group presentation:

Criteria Excellent Good Needs Improvement

Information (25%) 20%
25% 10%
The presentation
The presentation The presentation does
reflects new and
reflects new and not reflect new and
relevant information,
relevant information, relevant information,
clearly understood
clearly understood and is not clearly
and somehow
and communicated understood and is not
communicated by
by all group communicated by all
majority of the group
members group members
members
Organization (25%) 20%
The presentation
25% 10%
follows a somehow
The presentation The presentation
clear and logical
follows a clear and follows an unclear and
structure that lends
logical structure that illogical structure that
itself to easy
lends itself to easy does not lends itself to
understanding but
understanding easy understanding
with minor
contradictions
Quality (25%) 20%
25% The final 10%
The final presentation was The final presentation
presentation was relatively clear with was unclear and has
clear and a few incorrect incorrect information,
informative, information, does not reflect input
reflecting input from somehow reflecting from all group
all group members input from all group members
members
Collaboration (25%) 25%
20% 10%
Clear and abundant
Some evidence of Little evidence of
evidence of
collaboration collaboration
collaboration
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*Rubric for papers submitted by students

Criteria Excellent Good Needs improvement

Content (30%) 25%
Central idea is
30%
somewhat
Central idea is 15%
developed.
developed. Central idea is not
developed.
Purpose is
Purpose is clearly Purpose is not clearly
somehow exhibited.
exhibited. exhibited.
There is some
There is abundance It lacks evidence of
evidence of critical
of evidence of critical critical thought and
thought and careful
thought and careful careful analysis.
analysis.
analysis. Examples are general
There are
Examples are vivid and broad.
examples that are
and specific.
somewhat vivid and
specific.
25%
Paper is somehow
30% logically organized 15%
Structure (30%) Paper is logically and can be Paper is not logically
organized and can followed. organized and cannot
be easily followed. Transitions are be easily followed.
Transitions are partly logical, Transitions are not
logical, smooth, and smooth, and logical, smooth, nor
effective. effective. effective.
There is use of The format is The format used is not
professional format. somehow professional.
professional in
appearance.
15%
There is some use
Language (20%) 20%
of correct and 10%
There is use of
sophisticated There is use of
correct and
vocabulary. incorrect and simple
sophisticated
Writer’s tone is vocabulary.
vocabulary.
somewhat Writer’s tone is not
Writer’s tone is clear,
understandable, clear, inconsistent,
consistent, and
shows some and/or inappropriate.
appropriate.
consistency, and
appropriate.
Grammar (20%) 10%
15%
20% Paper uses basic
Paper uses some
Paper manipulates sentence patterns.
complex sentences.
complex sentences There are many
There are some
for impact. punctuation or
punctuation or
typographical errors.
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There are no typographical

punctuation or errors.
typographical errors

*Rubric for group discussions

Criteria Excellent Good Needs improvement

Content (25%) 20%
25% Central idea/s 10%
Developed central is/are somewhat Central idea/s is/are
idea/s developed NOT developed
Strong, specific, and Good, and specific, Weak, general, and
clear evidence to and somewhat unclear evidence to
support the idea/s clear evidence to support the idea/s
support the idea/s
Language (25%) 20%
25% 10%
Some grammatical
Grammatically Several grammatical
errors
correct errors
Mainly use
Use of appropriate Uses inappropriate
appropriate
language language
language
Structure (25%) 20%
25%
Some clarity, 10%
Clear, logical and
logicalness, and Not clear, logical nor
smooth presentation
smoothness in the smooth presentation of
of ideas and
presentation of ideas and evidence
evidence
ideas and evidence
Value added (25%) 10%
25% No original
Original ideas/ Ideas ideas/copied several
are not copied from ideas from other
other classmates classmates

VII. LEARNING PLAN

Course Teaching-
Teaching-Learning Teaching-Learning
Intended Week Learning
CO # Topics Activities Activities Assessment
Learning # Activities
(Synchronous) (Asynchronous)
Outcomes (Traditional)
Critical
discussions on Online reading and
what the course discussion about
Conceptualize
is about as well the syllabus (course Links to reference
how
Introduction to Week as the various content, approach, citation format,
CO1 globalization is Online quiz
the course 1 house rules requirements, house sample
related to the
pertinent to the rules, and other presentations
program
subject relevant concerns)
In-person via Google Meet
discussion
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Online lecture-
discussion on the
Differentiate the nature, aspects, and
Critical reading
conceptions of types of Think
of materials on Links to
globalization globalization as well piece/Reflection
CO1 The study of Week conceptions of documentaries/video
Have a working as how the world paper; Group
CO2 globalization 2-3 globalization clips/podcasts/article
definition of (and the Philippines) discussion, Online
Face to face s on globalization
globalization for is experiencing them quiz
Lecture
the course in light of the recent
events via Google
Meet
Explain the role Online lecture-
of international discussion on the
Links to
financial key features, main
Critical reading documentaries/video
institutions in actors, and the
of materials on clips/podcasts/article Think
the global Global development of the
global economy s on global piece/Reflection
economy economy and Week global economy as
CO2 and market economy, market paper; Group
market 4-5 well as the economic
integration integration, and discussion, Online
Identify the integration impact of global
Face-to-face global economic quiz
institutions that pandemic on the
lecture depression and
govern economic wellbeing
recession
international of different countries
relations via Google Meet
Online lecture-
discussion
summarizing the
salient points of
Preliminary Exam
previous lessons
Week Face-to-face Link to online (can be
Prelim on the study of
6 lecture materials synchronous or
globalization and the
asynchronous)
history and
development of the
global economy via
Google Meet
Identify the key Links to
Online lecture-
actors and documentaries/video
Critical reading discussion on key
processes in clips/podcasts on
of materials on concepts, main
global politics actors, processes,
key actors, actors, and
Identify the roles and developments in Think
CO1 processes, and developments in the
and functions of the international piece/Reflection
structures of international state
the United International Week political order, paper; Group
CO2 international system, global
Nations political order 7-9 functions and roles discussion, Online
political order governance, and the
Explain the of the UN quiz; Group
CO3 and global UN organizations
relevance of the organizations and its presentation
governance like UNICEF,
state amid relation to global
Face-to-face UNESCO, and WHO
globalization governance; online
lecture among others via
audio-visual
Google Meet
presentation
Critical reading
of materials
related to flows Links to
Online lecture-
Identify and and counter- documentaries/video
discussion on
critically flows of cultural clips/podcasts/article
global flows of Think
examine the influence s on global cultural
culture (food, pop piece/Reflection
various including but not flows as manifested
CO1 Global cultural Week culture, etc.) and paper; Group
manifestations limited to issues in various aspects of
CO2 flows 10-11 the impact of global discussion, Online
of global cultural involving media, social life and how
crises (economic, quiz; Group
flows consumption recent events
political, and health) presentation
pattern and impacted them;
on them via Google
behavior, and online audio-visual
Meet
religion presentation
Face-to-face
lecture
Online lecture-
discussion
summarizing and
Midterm Exam
clarifying the major
Week Face-to-face Link to online (can be
Midterm points about the
12 lecture materials synchronous or
contemporary
asynchronous)
international political
order and global
cultural flows
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Critical reading
of materials on
the broader
conception of
human security
Links to
including but not
Understand Online lecture- documentaries/video
limited to
and critically discussion on the clips/podcasts on
protection from
discuss what broader conception various areas of
health,
human security of human security vulnerabilities and Think
education,
is Human security (as defined in UN human development piece/Reflection
CO1 Week employment,
and GA Resolution such as health paper; Group
CO2 13-15 personal
Understand and development 66/290 and outlined concerns like the discussion, Online
security,
explain the in the MDGs and covid-19 pandemic, quiz
economic,
various forms of SDGs) and issues impacts of economic
mental,
human under it via Google depressions and
religious, and
vulnerabilities Meet recessions among
other socio-
others
economic and
political
vulnerabilities
Face-to-face
lecture
Links to
documentaries/video
Differentiate Critical reading Online lecture-
clips/podcasts/article
stability from of materials on discussion on the
s on climate change Think
sustainability Environmental environment global environmental
and various piece/Reflection
CO1 crisis and Week problems and crisis and how it
environmental paper; Group
CO2 Articulate sustainable 16-17 sustainable relates to
problems as well as discussion, Online
models of global development development sustainable
possible solutions quiz
sustainable Face-to-face development via
and paths to
development lecture Google Meet
sustainable
development
Online session
concluding the
Final term paper;
course with a
Final examination
Week Face-to-face summary discussion Link to online
Conclusion (can be
18 lecture of the salient points materials
synchronous or
taken up during the
asynchronous)
semester via Google
Meet

VIII. OTHER REQUIREMENTS AND ASSESSMENTS

(Whenever necessary/applicable to the nature of the course/coursework)

IX. GRADING SYSTEM

Term Major % Class % Required %

Examinations Standing Outputs
Prelim Preliminary 30 Attendance, 40 Think pieces/ 30
30% Examination Recitation, Reflection
Quizzes, papers
Group
Discussions
Midterm Midterm 30 Attendance, 40 Think pieces/ 30
30% Examination Recitation, Reflection
Quizzes, papers
Group Group
Discussions Presentations
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Final Final 30 Attendance, 40 Think pieces/ 30

40% Examination Recitation, Reflection
Quizzes, papers
Group Term paper
Discussions

SUGGESTED WEBINARS, VIDEOS AND READINGS

TOPICS AND LINKS SPONSOR/PROVIDER
Introduction to the course
APA citation format:
https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/apa_style/apa_formatti
ng_and_style_guide/in_text_citations_the_basics.html#:~:text=When%20
using%20APA%20format%2C%20follow,the%20end%20of%20the%20p
aper.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBMcOGGTZYM&list=PL9J7auXIgis
4B2fIIXQvTuWSGPFRlFfJj

MLA citation format:

https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/mla_style/mla_formatti
ng_and_style_guide/mla_in_text_citations_the_basics.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTaUHS1mnvw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Vo8_Jw71JI

How to write a reflection paper:

http://people.stu.ca/~oregan/rpguidelines.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SntBj0FIApw

How to write a policy recommendation paper:

https://www.researchtoaction.org/2013/07/how-to-write-actionable-policy-
recommendations/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eI-0hk4JVvk

What is plagiarism?
https://www.plagiarism.org/article/what-is-
plagiarism#:~:text=According%20to%20the%20Merriam%2DWebster,der
ived%20from%20an%20existing%20source

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzZsButRaHs
The study of globalization
What is globalization?
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MacEwan, A. “Introduction: What is globalization?” in The Radical

Teacher, Summer 2001, No. 6, pp.2-7. Retrieved from
http://www.jstor.com/stable/20710101
Dator, J. “What is globalization?” in Dator, J., Pratt, D., and Seo, Y.
Fairness, Globalization, and Public Institutions: East Asia and Beyond.
University of Hawai’i Press. Retrieved from
http://www.jstor.com/stable/j.ctv3zp081.5

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJ0nFD19eT8&t=126s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPD477FuqtY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SnR-e0S6Ic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_iwrt7D5OA

https://www.ted.com/talks/arindam_bhattacharya_globalization_isn_t_de
clining_it_s_transforming

Scapes of global cultural flow

Appadurai, A. (1990). “Disjuncture and difference in the global cultural
economy” in Theory Culture Society 1990: 7, 295 retrieved from
http://www.arjunappadurai.org/articles/Appadurai_Disjuncture_and_Differ
ence_in_the_Global_Cultural_Economy.pdf on 22 July 2020

Vienna Humanities Festival: Arjun Appadurai “Flow of Globalization”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paGfRUTBTAM
Global economy and market integration

Gilpin, R. “Governing the global economy” in Gilpin, R. Global Political

Economy: Understanding the International Economic Order. Princeton
University Press. Retrieved from
http://www.jstor.com/stable/j.ctvcm4j53.19

Tyers, R. “Financial integration and global interdependence” in Song, L.,

Garnaut, R., Fang, C., and Johnston, L. China’s domestic transformation
in a global context. ANU Press. Retrieved from
http://www.jstor.com/stable/j.ctt16wd0dw.14

Conrad, S. “Global history and forms of integration” in Conrad, S. What is

global history? Princeton University Press. Retrieved from
http://www.jstor.com/stable/j.ctvc779r7.7
Market integration
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvxHfO3ROL0

What is Neoliberalism?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWTdh9yXpVs
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What is Washington Consensus?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyIzKs6enyY

Actors and processes in global economy

What The G7 Summit Is All About
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPYnH7FNhbk

What is the G20?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7S7iBXPiKcU&feature=emb_title

G20 explained (explainity® explainer video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gflQCq-iywc

Most Powerful Corporations in the World?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JV1NB70gLQI

What global trade deals are really about (hint: it's not trade)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-v3uqD1hWGE

Globalization and the poor -- a look at the evidence

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIldvz0jygE
International political order
Clegg, J. “Towards a new international political order” in Clegg, J.
China’s global strategy. Pluto Press. Retrieved from
http://www.jstor.com/stable/j.ctt183p561.13

Huysmans, J. “Internationa politics of exception: competing visions of

international political order between law and politics” in Alternatives:
Global, Local, Political , Apr.-June 2006, Vol. 31, No. 2 (Apr.-June 2006),
pp. 135-165. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.com/stable/40645179

The idea of a nation state

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOEbVmn6sAs

Toni Lane Casserly, Do we need Nation States?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJPE4H_fgBQ

The international state system

Joseph Nye, Global power shifts

https://www.ted.com/talks/joseph_nye_global_power_shifts/transcript?lan
guage=en
or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=796LfXwzIUk

Global governance in a changing world

https://www.cfr.org/explainer-video/global-governance-changing-world
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What is global governance

https://www.coursera.org/lecture/international-relations-theory/what-is-
global-governance-3-RpBRA

The UN system
Explainer: What is the UN?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8etWR7X-RQ

Behind the scenes of the UN General Assembly

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvKpnRPosek

What is the International Court of Justice? The role and activities of the
ICJ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DME-wfbt08c

Explainer: What is the General Assembly?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9iUnXtTwLs

What is the UN Security Council?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wfHSNMp3Pk

https://www.un.org/en/pdfs/18-
00159e_un_system_chart_17x11_4c_en_web.pdf

https://www.un.org/un70/en/content/history/index.html

http://www.globalization101.org/the-united-nations-system/

How the United Nations Work

https://people.howstuffworks.com/united-nations.htm

What is the World Health Organization?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZX3EmgAtKo

What does the World Health Organization do?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVk9PmD-A3I

Regionalism and regional organizations

file:///D:/Documents/RegionalOrganizations_the-sage-encyclopedia-of-
war-social-science-perspectives_i15155.pdf

http://www.globalization101.org/regional-organizations/

Global cultural flows

Global pop culture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gd0aAFFjCUo

Parag Khanna, Mapping the future of countries

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https://www.ted.com/talks/parag_khanna_mapping_the_future_of_countri
es/transcript?language=en

Saad Mohseni, The power of pop culture

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62M4sGZ5UXo

Global cuisine
https://www.ted.com/talks/sharwin_tee_food_and_culture_of_today/up-
next

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eyROTdBUs4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPQCG_nYQPc

https://www.ted.com/talks/paul_iskov_how_indigenous_food_connects_u
s_to_country_and_culture/up-next

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=is7IJgibSxE

https://www.ted.com/talks/michael_silverstein_the_future_of_food/up-
next

https://www.ted.com/talks/jamie_oliver_food_revolutionaries/up-
next?language=en

https://www.ted.com/talks/carolyn_steel_how_food_shapes_our_cities/up
-next?language=en

Media and globalization

Clay Shirky, How social media can make history
https://www.ted.com/talks/clay_shirky_how_social_media_can_make_his
tory?language=en

Bryan Kramer, Why social media is reimagining our future

https://www.ted.com/talks/bryan_kramer_why_social_media_is_reimagini
ng_our_future

Pankaj Ghemawat, Actually, the world isn’t flat

https://www.ted.com/talks/pankaj_ghemawat_actually_the_world_isn_t_fl
at?language=en

Alisa Miller, How the news distorts our worldview

https://www.ted.com/talks/alisa_miller_how_the_news_distorts_our_worl
dview#t-4973

Religion and globalization

https://www.ted.com/talks/julia_sweeney_letting_go_of_god/transcriptulia
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https://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_religions_and_babies/transcript?l
anguage=en

https://www.ted.com/talks/alain_de_botton_atheism_2_0/up-next

https://www.ted.com/talks/wade_davis_dreams_from_endangered_cultur
es/up-next?language=en

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Q7mGOQw73Q
Human security and development
Human security
https://documents-dds-
ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/N11/476/22/PDF/N1147622.pdf?OpenElem
ent

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWdg35jvNLA

Global health situation

https://www.ted.com/talks/fareed_zakaria_how_the_coronavirus_pandem
ic_is_changing_the_world

https://www.ted.com/talks/rabbi_lord_jonathan_sacks_how_we_can_navi
gate_the_coronavirus_pandemic_with_courage_and_hope

Coronavirus Special | The Untold Story

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lrKCjVMXDQ

Coronavirus Pandemic (full film) | FRONTLINE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DJtjyB1gvE

Documentary: Life in lockdown under coronavirus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XrE41Wu3U0

How wildlife trade is linked to coronavirus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPpoJGYlW54&t=160s

Migration, human trafficking, and human smuggling

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mw4cWfF3eo

Pico Iyer, Where is home?

https://www.ted.com/talks/pico_iyer_where_is_home/transcript?language
=en

Isabel Wilkerson, The Great Migration and the power of a single decision
https://www.ted.com/talks/isabel_wilkerson_the_great_migration_and_th
e_power_of_a_single_decision/up-next?language=en

Duarte Geraldino, What we’re missing in the debate about migration

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https://www.ted.com/talks/duarte_geraldino_what_we_re_missing_in_the
_debate_about_immigration/up-next?language=en

Michelle Ezeuko, The myth of migration

https://www.ted.com/talks/michelle_ezeuko_the_myth_of_migration/up-
next

Noy Thrupkaew, Human trafficking is all around you. This is how it works
https://www.ted.com/talks/noy_thrupkaew_human_trafficking_is_all_arou
nd_you_this_is_how_it_works/up-next

Markie Dell, Escaping the pain of human trafficking

https://www.ted.com/talks/markie_dell_escaping_the_pain_of_human_tra
fficking/up-next?language=en

Hanna Kit, Break the circuit---putting an end to human trafficking

https://www.ted.com/talks/hanna_kit_break_the_circuit_putting_an_end_t
o_human_trafficking/up-next

Refugees
Refugee crisis explained (explainity® explainer video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11aG7CyjiAo

Bnedetta Berti and Evelien Borgman, What does it mean to be a

refugee?
https://www.ted.com/talks/benedetta_berti_and_evelien_borgman_what_
does_it_mean_to_be_a_refugee_feb_2018/up-next?language=en

Alexander Betts, Our refugee system is failing. Here’s how we can fix it
https://www.ted.com/talks/alexander_betts_our_refugee_system_is_failin
g_here_s_how_we_can_fix_it/up-next?language=en

Muhammed Idris, What refugees need to start new lives

https://www.ted.com/talks/muhammed_idris_what_refugees_need_to_sta
rt_new_lives/up-next?language=en

Food and water security

Tristram Stuart, The global food waste scandal
https://www.ted.com/talks/tristram_stuart_the_global_food_waste_scand
al/up-next?language=en

Zackary Sauvageau, Food insecurity on a global scale

https://www.ted.com/talks/zackary_sauvageau_food_insecurity_on_a_glo
bal_scale/up-next

Esther Ndichu, Hunger in’t a food issue. It’s a logistics issue

https://www.ted.com/talks/esther_ndichu_hunger_isn_t_a_food_issue_it_
s_a_logistics_issue/up-next
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Sara Menker, A global food crisis may be less than a decade away
https://www.ted.com/talks/sara_menker_a_global_food_crisis_may_be_l
ess_than_a_decade_away/transcript?language=en

Terrorism
Jason McCue, Terrorism is a failed brand
https://www.ted.com/talks/jason_mccue_terrorism_is_a_failed_brand/tran
script?language=en

Stephanie Busari, How fake news does real harm

https://www.ted.com/talks/stephanie_busari_how_fake_news_does_real_
harm

The roots of extremism (playlist)

https://www.ted.com/playlists/569/the_roots_of_extremism

Environmental crisis and sustainable development

Climate change
Luisa Neubauer, Why you should be a climate activitist
https://www.ted.com/talks/luisa_neubauer_why_you_should_be_a_climat
e_activist

Jonathan Foley, The other inconvenient truth

https://www.ted.com/talks/jonathan_foley_the_other_inconvenient_truth/t
ranscript?language=en

Alex Steffen, The route to a sustainable future

https://www.ted.com/talks/alex_steffen_the_route_to_a_sustainable_futur
e?language=en

Karl-Henrik Robert, Strategic Sustainable Development

https://www.ted.com/talks/karl_henrik_robert_strategic_sustainable_development_jan_2
019

Johan Rockström, 5 transformational policies for a prosperous and

sustainable world
https://www.ted.com/talks/johan_rockstrom_5_transformational_policies_
for_a_prosperous_and_sustainable_world?language=en

Olivia Tyler , The Path to Sustainability

https://www.ted.com/talks/olivia_tyler_the_complex_path_to_sustainabilit
y

Textbooks/References
Main text: Claudio, L. & Abinales, P. (2018). The Contemporary World. C & E Publishing Inc.
Quezon City
(https://www.scribd.com/document/394529123/THE-CONTEMPORARY-WORLD-pdf)

Extended readings:
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Aguilar Jr., F. (2012). Differentiating Sedimented from Modular Transnationalism: The View from
East Asia. Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, Vol. 21 No. 2, pp. 149-171
Aust, H. (2015). Shining Cities on the Hill? The Global City, Climate Change, and International Law.
The European Journal of International Law, Vol. 26 No. 1, pp. 255-278
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pp. 1-5
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Herrington, L. (2013). Globalization and Religion in Historical Perspective: A Paradoxical
Relationship. Religions, Vol. 4, pp. 145-165
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promptly and for the entire duration of the class.

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