Contemporary World Course Description PDF

CONTEMPORARY WORLD 5. Assess the effects of globalization on different social units and their COURSE DESCRIPTION responses. 6...

CONTEMPORARY WORLD 5. Assess the effects of globalization on different social units and their COURSE DESCRIPTION responses. 6. Analyze the contemporary news The Contemporary World is a 3-unit lecture events in the context of subject recited for 18 weeks for the entire globalization. semester. The course introduces the students 7. Analyze global issues in relation to to the contemporary world by examining the Filipinos and the Philippines. multifaceted phenomena of globalization. 8. Write a research paper with proper Using various disciplines of the social citations on a topic related to sciences, it examines the globalization. economic, 9. Articulate personal positions on social, various global issues. political, 10. Identify the ethical implications of technological global citizenship other transformations that have created an increasing awareness of the interconnectedness of peoples GLOBALIZATION (L1) and places around the globe. To this end, the course provides an overview INTRODUCTION of the various debates in: global governance, 1. Cure parochialism or an outlook that is development and limited to one's immediate community. sustainability. A person who is concerned only with his/her Beyond exposing the student to the world family, village, or even country is parochial. outside the Philippines, it seeks to inculcate The parochial person is, thus, close-minded. a sense of global citizenship and global The course aims to stretch the limits of your ethical responsibility. imagination and outlook, share unfamiliar ideas and cultures that may spark new interests and concerns. We will explore the GENERAL OBJECTIVES places, peoples, ideas, and cultures that you 1. Distinguish different interpretations care about and value. This expansion of of and approaches to globalization. one's ethical horizons is the very core of 2. Describe the emergence of global what it means to be a citizen. economic, political, social, and 2. Teach you more about yourself. cultural systems. Knowing about other countries allows you 3. Analyze the various contemporary to compare your society with others. The drivers of globalization. experiences of communities outside the 4. Identify the issues confronting the Philippines may provide solutions to many nation-state. of the country's current problems. Dr. Jose Rizal, our national hero said that anyone who has not learned about the world will be 3. Activists: Anti-globalization means haunted by the "ghost of comparison. " He resisting the trade deals among says that once you know about other countries facilitated and promoted by societies, you will not be able to look at your global organizations like the World own in the same way. You will start Trade Organization. comparing and asking various questions; 4. Academics: Globalization is an and compare what will happen even when interdisciplinary approach used by you least expect it. The urge is like a "ghost" General Education courses. that suddenly appears. 5. Manfred Steger: Globalization is 3. Interacting with the world. the expansion and intensification of The Filipinos are increasingly becoming social relations and consciousness aware of our interdependence globally: world-time and across world-space. 1. Filipinos are living and working a. Expansion refers to both the abroad (OFWs): creation of new social 2. many Filipinos work for foreign networks and the countries operating in the country multiplication of existing such as in Business Process connections that cut across Outsourcing (BPO): traditional political, 3. due to internet, cheaper travel costs, economic, cultural, and and larger trade off goods and geographic boundaries. services; b. Intensification refers to the 4. the deepening global expansion, stretching, and interconnectedness of places, ideas, acceleration of these economies, culture, and people. networks: social media, international groups of LEARNING OUTCOMES non-governmental 1. Agree on a working definition of organizations(NGOs) that globalization for the course; connect a more specific 2. Differentiate the competing group- social workers and conceptions of globalization; and activists. 3. Narrate a personal experience of Examples: globalization 1. Strong financial market connecting London and New York such as WORKING DEFINITION electronic trading. 1. Most accounts view globalization 2. China committed itself to the global as primarily an economic process. economy in the 1980s. 2. Newspaper Reports: It is the 3. Shanghai steadily returned to its old integration of the national markets a role as a major trading post. wider global market signified by the 4. Honda plant temporarily ceased increased free trade. production of car parts due to  monsoon rains flooding Bangkok. common belief forwarded in media This had a strong negative effect on and policy circles. Honda-USA which relied heavily on the parts being imported from 6. Arjun Appadurai, different kinds of Thailand, as a result, the Japanese globalization occur on multiple and car company's global profits also interesting dimensions of integration that he fell. calls "scapes." ethnoscape refers to the global The final attribute of the definition of movement of people globalization relates to the people mediascape is about the flow of perceived time and space. Steger notes that culture "globalization processes do not occur merely technoscape refers to the circulation at an objective, material level but they also of mechanical goods and software involve the subjective plane of human finanscape denotes the global consciousness" In other words, people begin circulation of money to feel that the world has become smaller ideoscape is the realm where place and distance as collapsed from political ideas move around thousands of miles to just a mouse-click away. One can now e-mail call a friend in 7. Schottle (1995) states that globalization another country and get a reply stands for quite a large public spread across instantaneously, and as a result, begins to the world as one of the defining terms of the perceive their distance as less consequential. 20th century social consciousness. Cable TV and the internet have also exposed one to news from across the globe, so now, 8. Rosenau (1996) states that globalization he/she has this greater sense of what is is not the same as globalism, which points happening in other places. Much more with our aspirations for an end state of affairs the occurrence of CoVID 19 pandemic, wherein values are shared by or pertinent to DepEd and CHED require all learning all the world's five billion people, their institutions to use virtual/on-line classes as environment, their roles as citizens, we cannot afford to go face-face classes. consumers and producers with an interest in Steger posits that his definition of collective action designed to solve common globalization must be differentiated with problems. Not it is universalism - values an ideology he calls globalism, that embrace all humanity. Globalism - a widespread belief among powerful people that the 9. Mc Grew (1990) globalization is global integration of economic described as something that is comprised of markets is beneficial to everyone, multiple sameness and interconnectedness since it spreads freedom and that go beyond the nation-states. It is a democracy across the world. It is a process in which individuals and organizations in one part of the world are affected by the activities, affairs, and ○ Uruguay, convictions of another part of the world. ○ Paraguay, and ○ Venezuela, 10. Cerny (1997) globalization is a cluster ○ ASEAN Free Trade Area of economic and political frameworks and (AFTA) and procedures deriving from the changing ○ Trans-Pacific Partnership. marks of the interests and assets that comprise the foundation of the international 13. McLuhan (1964) a Communication political economy-specifically, the Expert- globalization refers to the concept of expanding structural differences of those a global village. Through globalization, the interests and assets. world has become a borderless world. Communication technology makes the world 11. Freeden (2003) posits that globalization shrink. He believes that the media have denotes a range of processes nesting under connected the world in ways that created a one rather unwieldy epithet. Its conceptual global village. difficulty to handle or control arises from the fact that global flows occur in different 14. Culture Experts - globalization is physical and mental dimensions. referred to as cultural imperialism. It is the conviction that there is a "better" culture. 12. Economists - globalization means Some cultures see other cultures as superior increase of free trade, speed of trade, global to theirs, forming inferior or non-dominant economic organization, and regional trade cultures. In cultural globalization, therefore, blocks. The expansion of the free trade the spread of popular culture (e.g., music, allows governments not to restrict the art, literature, fashion, lifestyle, etc.) flows importation of products nor impede the from dominant to non-dominant cultures export of local products. Importing and (i.e., from developed to developing exporting are done just in a millisecond countries. through technology and the internet. There is also the intense establishment of economic organizations such as the International Monetary fund (IMF), World Bank (WB), World Trade Organization (WTO), International Labor Organization (ILO), European Free Trade Area (EFTA), Mercosur, a customs union among ○ Brazil, ○ Argentina,