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Class number:
3147
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Title: Contesting Globalization |
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Department: International Studies |
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Career: Undergraduate |
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Component: Seminar |
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Session: Regular |
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Instructor's Permission Required: No |
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Grading Basis: Regular |
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Units: 1.00 |
| Enrollment limited to 15 |
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Current enrollment: 2 |
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Available seats: 13 |
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Start date: Tuesday, September 2, 2025 |
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End date: Wednesday, December 17, 2025 |
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Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Schedule: M: 1:30PM-4:10PM, 70VS - SEM |
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Instructor(s): Chen, Xiangming |
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Prerequisite(s): None |
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Distribution Requirement: Meets Social Sciences and Global Requirements |
Course Description:
This new course helps students develop a critical, in-depth understanding of the complex and contested academic and public discourses and debates about both historical and contemporary globalization. The course challenges the accepted association between the era of globalization and western dominance by examining the rise of China as a powerful force pushing current globalization along a different track. Aided by a historical perspective, we compare the entry mode, stage duration, drivers, and outcomes of West- vs. an emerging China-led globalization, via the Belt and Road Initiative. The course steers students toward understanding globalization as an always contested and sometimes cyclical process with pluralistic and contradictory national and local consequences including its recent retreat in terms of geoeconomic fragmentation due to Covid-19 disruptions and geopolitical conflicts. |