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ANSO 320 Globalization, Culture, and Society

What does the intensifying global circulation of ideas, people, capital, goods and practices across national borders mean for communities, cultures, and identities in different parts of the world? As anthropologist Anna Tsing puts it: how are people, cultures, things, and ideas remade as they circulate? This course explores today's increasingly interconnected and mobile world through the fields of anthropology and sociology. The course examines challenges of globalization, such as forced migrations, economic inequalities, climate change, pandemics. The course also considers valuable outcomes, from advances in social justice, to collaborations to solve global problems and creative multi-cultural interactions and productions. Students explore lived experiences of globalization, including their own.

Prerequisites

Special information

Note: Formerly known as ANTH 320.
4 Undergraduate credits

Effective May 7, 2025 to present

Meets graduation requirements for

Learning outcomes

General

  • Places lived experiences of globalization and relationships among peoples in the global age in historical, cultural, and economic context.
  • Evaluates and writes about impacts of power, global capitalism, and global interconnections with particular attention to societies and cultures of the Global South and to students¿ own experiences.
  • Develops critical/analytical skills to discuss and write about anthropological and sociological approaches and representations at the upper division college level.
  • Uses anthropological and sociological principles, in particular, cultural relativism and an equity.

Minnesota Transfer Curriculum

Goal 5: History and the Social and Behavioral Sciences

  • Employ the methods and data that historians and social and behavioral scientists use to investigate the human condition.
  • Examine social institutions and processes across a range of historical periods and cultures.
  • Use and critique alternative explanatory systems or theories.
  • Develop and communicate alternative explanations or solutions for contemporary social issues.

Goal 8: Global Perspective

  • Describe and analyze political, economic, and cultural elements which influence relations of states and societies in their historical and contemporary dimensions.
  • Demonstrate knowledge of cultural, social, religious and linguistic differences.
  • Analyze specific international problems, illustrating the cultural, economic, and political differences that affect their solution.
  • Understand the role of a world citizen and the responsibility world citizens share for their common global future.

Spring 2026

Section Title Instructor books eservices
01 Globalization, Culture, and Society Wang, Jinpu Books for ANSO-320-01 Spring 2026 Course details for ANSO-320-01 Spring 2026