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General Information
- Course ID (CB01A and CB01B)
- ANTHD014.
- Course Title (CB02)
- Anthropology of Globalization
- Course Credit Status
- Credit - Degree Applicable
- Effective Term
- Fall 2024
- Course Description
- Students explore the increasing interconnectedness of cultures across time and space through dynamic cross-border global flows of digital information, media images, capital, workers, as well as transnational immigrants, refugees, and tourists. They will assess cross-cultural ethnographies and case studies to examine the impact of modernization and liberalization resulting in global networks of knowledge and capital, accompanied by poverty-alleviating technological, structural, and economic development, and multicultural cosmopolitan centers. Students will also examine the numerous unsustainable development projects, environmental deterioration, economic inequities, weakening of the nation-state, loss of indigenous lifeways, and irreversible cultural change in both Western and non-Western societies.
- Faculty Requirements
- Discipline 1
- [Anthropology]
- FSA
- [FHDA FSA - ANTHROPOLOGY]
- Course Family
- Not Applicable
Course Justification
The course is UC and CSU transferable and is ý GE, CSU GE, and IGETC. The course belongs on the Anthropology Transfer degree. This course gives the students an opportunity to apply the methods and skills of anthropology to evaluate ongoing cultural transformation due to globalization and discuss the future of humanity.
Foothill Equivalency
- Does the course have a Foothill equivalent?
- No
- Foothill Course ID
Formerly Statement
Course Development Options
- Basic Skill Status (CB08)
- Course is not a basic skills course.
- Grade Options
- Letter Grade
- Pass/No Pass
- Repeat Limit
- 0
Transferability & Gen. Ed. Options
- Transferability
- Transferable to both UC and CSU
| ý GE | Area(s) | Status | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2GDX | ý GE Area D - Social and Behavioral Sciences | Approved |
| CSU GE | Area(s) | Status | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| CGDY | CSU GE Area D - Social Sciences | Approved |
| IGETC | Area(s) | Status | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| IG4X | IGETC Area 4 - Social and Behavioral Sciences | Approved |
Units and Hours
Summary
- Minimum Credit Units
- 4.0
- Maximum Credit Units
- 4.0
Weekly Student Hours
| Type | In Class | Out of Class |
|---|---|---|
| Lecture Hours | 4.0 | 8.0 |
| Laboratory Hours | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Course Student Hours
- Course Duration (Weeks)
- 12.0
- Hours per unit divisor
- 36.0
Course In-Class (Contact) Hours
- Lecture
- 48.0
- Laboratory
- 0.0
- Total
- 48.0
Course Out-of-Class Hours
- Lecture
- 96.0
- Laboratory
- 0.0
- NA
- 0.0
- Total
- 96.0
Prerequisite(s)
Corequisite(s)
Advisory(ies)
EWRT D001A or EWRT D01AH or ESL D005.
Limitation(s) on Enrollment
Entrance Skill(s)
General Course Statement(s)
(See general education pages for the requirements this course meets.)
Methods of Instruction
Collaborative learning and small group exercises
Collaborative projects
Discussion and problem-solving performed in class
Discussion of assigned reading
Field observation and field trips
Guest speakers
Homework and extended projects
In-class essays
In-class exploration of internet sites
Laboratory discussion sessions and quizzes that evaluate the proceedings weekly laboratory exercises
Lecture and visual aids
Quiz and examination review performed in class
Assignments
- Reading: Assigned readings from required texts and other sources.
- Writing: Conducting relevant research and writing a major long essay about a given topic (example: enumerate and explain the positive and negative effects of globalization; discuss the future of globalization; analyze the impact of globalization on global poverty, etc.).
- Writing: Posting replies to weekly short questions/discussion topics identifying, analyzing, and evaluating key issues concerning globalization (such as principal characteristics of globalization, most importantly, global flows of digital information, media images, global capital, trans-national workers, immigrants, refugees, and tourists across borders).
- Verbal: Small group discussions of course material and in-class debates on topical controversies
- Verbal: Individual or group presentations about selected topics within the course material
- Fieldwork: Students carry out surveys, distribute and collect completed questionnaires, conduct interviews, and engage in participant observation to write individual papers on relevant topics (example: the impact of globalization on language diversity; code-switching among immigrant speakers; the conflation of globalization and Americanization, etc.) Students will be informed and trained to follow the proper protocol to deal with human subjects.
- Preparation of exhibit material: Students will develop an educational exhibit to share findings with other students and communicate salient aspects about the anthropology of globalization.
Methods of Evaluation
- Midterm objective and/or essay examinations and comprehensive final, all of which are composed of concept based questions which will require the student to demonstrate the ability to integrate and summarize facts and translate them into fundamental units of knowledge
- Research paper, and working outline for long essay project, involving summary, synthesis, and critical analysis of data
- Short papers assessing the students’ capability to identify aspects of globalization present in everyday life, and analyzing them with anthropological concepts from the textbook and lecture discussions
- Group projects based on anthropological methodologies such as conducting fieldwork and recording field experiences. Application of anthropological perspectives and collaborative learning. Field data will be collected using questionnaires, surveys, interviews, and/or informal conversations. The class will jointly view and comment on these findings.
- Participation in and contribution toward classroom discussions and in-class collaborative work
- Individual or group presentations that demonstrate ability to present data and analyze data in a logical engaging oral and visual format
- Reading assigned texts and writing responses that demonstrate basic comprehension, critique, and synthesis of course readings
- Developing educational exhibits such as posters, maps, and or statistical charts to share understanding of important concepts with fellow students, these student-developed exhibits will demonstrate student learning and understanding of the anthropology of globalization.
Essential Student Materials/Essential College Facilities
Essential Student Materials:
- None
- None
Examples of Primary Texts and References
| Author | Title | Publisher | Date/Edition | ISBN |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Steger, Manfred B. . | Globalization: A Very Short Introduction | Oxford University Press | 5th ed. 2020 | |
| Miller, Barbara. | Cultural Anthropology in a Globalizing World. | Pearson Education. | 4rth. Ed. 2017 | |
| English-Lueck, J.A.. | Cultures @ Silicon Valley . | Stanford University Press. California. | 2nd. Ed. 2017 | |
| Guest, Kenneth. | Cultural Anthropology: A Toolkit for a Global Age | W.W.Norton and Company | 3E / 2020 |
Examples of Supporting Texts and References
None.
Learning Outcomes and Objectives
Course Objectives
- Investigate the historic context of the process of globalization.
- Analyze the main processes that constitute globalization.
- Consider industrialization, international finance, and the new knowledge economy with the help of world-systems theory in order to assess the role of the core and the periphery states.
- Evaluate the impact of globalization on cultural change in both Western as well as non-Western nations, phasing out traditional culture in favor of modernization.
- Observe and seek to understand immigrant diasporas and heterogenous cosmopolitan centers, including the effects of cultural diffusion, culture shock, acculturation, adaptation, assimilation, and biculturalism.
- Analyze the impact of globalization on dynamic economic, political, and social structures across cultures, through the anthropological perspective.
- Examine the cultural survival of indigenous peoples in the current age of globalization.
- Utilize the anthropological lens to study all pervasive issues related to human-driven climate change in different regions of the earth.
- Evaluate all global issues with cultural sensitivity and empathy, using the essential anthropological insight of cultural relativism, and the important anthropological tools of ethnographic research and participant observation.
CSLOs
- Apply a scientific, holistic, and multidisciplinary approach to understand the concept of globalization in its historical context.
- Apply global perspectives to analyze processes of cultural change in the twenty-first century in diverse Western and non-Western nations.
- Recognize the value of cultural relativism while evaluating the impact of globalization on transformations in human behavior manifest at both the global as well as the local level.
- Analyze the processes and patterns of globalization using anthropological methodologies such as participant observation and ethnographic research.
Outline
- Investigate the historic context of the process of globalization.
- Study prehistoric migration routes out of Africa.
- Trace ancient global trade routes.
- Study Western (as well as non-Western) colonization in different parts of the world.
- Evaluate the global impact of industrialization.
- Evaluate the global impact of international conflicts.
- Evaluate the impact of twenty-first century technological innovation combined with neoliberalism.
- Analyze the main processes that constitute globalization.
- Evaluate global flows of ideas, media, technology, people, and goods across borders.
- Analyze the acceleration of communication and the compression of time and space as the principal characteristics of globalization.Evaluate the role of technological innovation, and neoliberal economic development in deepening post-colonial dependency of the periphery on the core in the contemporary world order, thus exacerbating global economic inequality.
- Consider industrialization, international finance, and the new knowledge economy with the help of world-systems theory in order to assess the role of the core and the periphery states.
- Evaluate the impact of globalization and the first world powers on developing nations, evaluating the process of international exploitation, and examining the roles of power and representation in systems of domination and cultural normalization.
- Analyze the reality of pervasive economic interdependence and persistent inequitable economic development in the modern era.
- Study worldwide modernization, technological innovations, liberalization, economic development, global poverty, concentrations of financial power, and zones of political influence, including the roles of the WB, WTO, IMF, NAFTA, USMCA, APEC, UN, MNCs, NGOs, and local and regional elites in the contemporary world order.
- Examine the capitalist as well as the socialist systems as they relate to the international political economy in the new world order.
- Assess and evaluate the impact of international inequality in digital literacy.
- Analyze the role of globalization in medical, educational, agribusiness, and corporate settings.
- Evaluate the impact of globalization on cultural change in both Western as well as non-Western nations, phasing out traditional culture in favor of modernization.
- Explore the dynamics of culture change and apply this knowledge to understanding the complexities of culturally heterogeneous societies.
- Analyze the process of voluntary cultural change, such as invention and diffusion, and involuntary cultural change such as acculturation and adaptation.
- Review globalization debates such as nation-building vs. global governance, and local culture vs. global culture.
- Investigate the concept of “glocal” culture, the impact of globalization on local communities, global homogenization of culture, and language loss (specifically the loss of minority and indigenous languages).
- Examine the theory of the clash of civilizations in the light of advancing globalization.
- Observe and seek to understand immigrant diasporas and heterogenous cosmopolitan centers, including the effects of cultural diffusion, culture shock, acculturation, adaptation, assimilation, and biculturalism.
- Recognize and evaluate new trends in the study of diasporas straddling local communities and immigrant enclaves due to the transnational migration of workers, refugees, and tourists, especially as they relate to the lives of specific ethnic groups such as the Mexican, Chinese, Indian, Russian, Filipino, and Vietnamese diaspora.
- Study immigrants, refugees, diasporic communities, and cosmopolitan urban centers, focusing on ethnic identity and assimilation in the era of globalization.
- Understand the nature of culture shock, its effects, and appreciate the benefits of biculturalism.
- Analyze the impact of globalization on dynamic economic, political, and social structures across cultures, through the anthropological perspective.
- Analyze the impact of globalization on changing gender roles and family relationships across cultures, through the anthropological perspective.
- Analyze the impact of globalization on evolving social and political organizations across cultures, through the anthropological perspective.
- Analyze the impact of globalization on changeable religious traditions and ideological beliefs across cultures, through the anthropological perspective.
- Analyze the impact of globalization on the emerging culture of international terrorism and international cyber warfare, on the culture of virtual reality, and on the world-wide genetic modification of food, though the anthropological perspective.
- Examine the cultural survival of indigenous peoples in the current age of globalization.
- Examine the cultural survival of indigenous peoples, assessing the impact of cultural change and the loss of indigenous knowledge systems due to world-wide modernization and neoliberal economic development.
- Analyze the role of globalization in the loss of traditional systems of medical, educational, agricultural, and business processes in indigenous communities.
- Utilize the anthropological lens to study all pervasive issues related to human-driven climate change in different regions of the earth.
- Study the effect of globalization on changes in climate and environment.
- Study the effect of globalization on population growth.
- Study the effect of globalization on the dissemination of pathogens, diseases, medicines, and vaccines across borders.
- Evaluate all global issues with cultural sensitivity and empathy, using the essential anthropological insight of cultural relativism, and the important anthropological tools of ethnographic research and participant observation.
- Analyze a variety of cross-cultural ethnographies and case-studies related to globalization in order to hear the voices of those most impacted by globalization, making use of the important anthropological tools of ethnographic research and participant observation.
- Take care to approach global issues with cultural sensitivity and empathy, using the essential anthropological insight of cultural relativism (example: global influence on (and of) China, India, Russia, Brazil, and Turkey; ethnic diversity in the USA; the cultural nuances of shifting recipes of the Big Mac in its various international avatars)
