SOCI 320: Globalization and Social Change

SOCI 320-001: Globalization and Soc Change
(Spring 2022)

03:00 PM to 04:15 PM MW

Innovation Hall 132

Section Information for Spring 2022

Globalization is the process of increasing political, economic, environmental, cultural, and social interconnections that is currently transforming our world. However, not everyone experiences globalization in the same way. For some, it expands opportunities and enhances prosperity while others experience poverty and hopelessness. This course focuses on the history and structure of globalization, and how globalizations is impacting the global economy, political structures, migration flows, gender, race and class inequality, and the environment and sustainability.  We will also explore anti- and counter-globalization movements.  This course fulfills the Mason Core requirement for Global Understanding.

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Course Information from the University Catalog

Credits: 3

While focusing on nature and process of change in human society, considers social impact of political, economic, and environmental change and how lives are shaped by complexities of global social forces. Examines specific global issues such as conflict and security; economic disparity; ecological deterioration; populations and migration; legitimization of commerce; diffusion of innovations; and impact of class, status, and power in modern societies. Limited to three attempts.
Mason Core: Global Contexts, Global Understanding, Encore: Sustainability
Specialized Designation: Green Leaf Focused Course
Schedule Type: Seminar
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This course is graded on the Undergraduate Regular scale.

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