ANTH 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
4 Undergraduate credits
Effective December 16, 2024 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 lens, to formulate an ethic and identity as a global citizen.
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.