COURSE TITLE : THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD

COURSE CODE : SOCSCI 101

COURSE UNIT : 3 UNITS

COURSE DESCRIPTION :

Pre-requisites/ co-requisite :

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COURSE OUTLINE
 TIME FRAME INTENDED LEARNING TEACHING INSTRUCTIONAL ASSESSMENT
CONTENTS STRATEGIES/ MATERIALS & TASK
OUTCOME (ILO)
ACTIVITIES RESOURCES
Introduction ● Classroom sharing Course syllabus
(Introductions)Lect
Course overview Introduce self to Introduce
ure
classmates and teachers
Classroom policies

textbook: Manfred
● Personal concept
Write a personal Stegger, Paul
map of
3 hrs definition of globalization globalization: Battersby, and
based on a concept map Students will Joseph M.
engage in a free Siracusa, eds.
association
exercise of ideas 2014.The SAGE
they associate with Handbook of
“globalization.” Globalization.
Based on the Two vols.
concepts they list, Thousand Oaks:
they will SAGE.
synthesize a
personal definition
of the concept

Introduction to the * Differentiate the ● Lecture News PowerPoint

competing conceptions of report critique: Presentation
Study of Globalization
3 hrs globalization Students will find Recitation
Reading Materials
and read three
* Identify the underlying
newspaper op-eds
philosophies of the varying
(local or
definitions of globalization
international)
 *Explain how studying discussing Chapter 2 of
globalization helps the globalization. textbook:
community ● Make an Acrostic “Approaches to
word for
*Enumerate and explain the Study of
GLOBALIZATION
the negative aspects of Globalization” by
globalization according to Manfred B.
the status quo and by
Steger
personal observation of the
reality. Steger, Manfred B.
“Ideologies of

Globalization.”
2005. Journal of
Political

Ideologies 10(1):
11–30.

The Structures of * Define economic ● Lecture/discussion PowerPoint Quiz on the

Globalization globalization Presentation reading
material
* Illustrate their own
● Film viewing and Chapter 9 of
version of the new world
● The Global Economy discussion textbook: “The
system
Globalization of Recitation
● Market Integration Economic
* Explain the role of
● The Global Interstate 8 hrs international financial Relations” by
● Oral recitation
System institutions in the creation István Benczes
of a global economy
● Contemporary Global Chapter 17 of
Governance ● Poster Making textbook: “The
Rise of the Global
 * Explain the effects of ● Ball Microphone; Corporation” by
globalization on where students Deane Neubauer
governments are handed a ball Bello, Walden F.
in a random order 2006. “The
* Gain awareness on how
to express their Multiple
to deal with the different
idea on the
potential threats with
importance of Chapter 7 of Quiz on the
regards economic of
market textbook:“Govern reading
political security
integration ments and materials
*Share the understanding Citizens in a
of the importance of Globally
market integration. Interconnected
World of States”
by Hans Schattle

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