Globalization
Globalization and Community Colleges
In this series of five lesson plans, students will learn about:
1) General overview of globalization
2) Overview of the economic and political domains as they relate to community colleges
3) a) Community colleges and global learners and b) Globalization and the information/technology dimension
4) Globalization and the cultural domain
5) Globalization and Global Learners
These lesson plans are geared to community college administrators, but can be adapted to other audiences. It is meant to be used in conjuction with the Globalization and Community Colleges syllabus.
Lesson Plan: Globalization Debates
No one can deny that today’s world has unique challenges facing the present and future workforce. In this introductory lesson to globalization, students will understand the meaning of globalization and how it relates to migration, development, trade, and human rights. Students will watch video interviews on these issues and will participate in a debate or a series of debates on these issues as well.
Culture
Unit on Culture & Globalization
This unit contains numerous activities for students to explore the spread of American culture throughout the world, including a role-playing exercise on a major U.S.-Canada trade dispute.
Unit on Religion and Globalization
This unit contains readings, discussion questions, and assignments that teach students about the impact of religious belief on perspectives on globalization.
Lesson Plan on Languages in A "Globalized World"
In this lesson plan students will examine the role of languages in preserving and shaping cultures. Students will learn how government policy and migration influences culture and languages. Students will compare and contrast policies of language preservation at the state and national level in the United States. Students also will learn about language preservation policies for selected countries. This lesson plan offers variations for language teachers. If you are interested in field-testing this lesson plan, e-mail globalization101@gmail.com
Development
Development Lesson Plan
In this lesson students will learn the fundamental concepts of economic development. Students will learn about the role of globalization in developing societies, different theories of why some countries are more developed than others and will be able to identify the key institutions and players in the field of international development. Students will research, write, present and evaluate grant proposals to fund a development project that encompasses a specific strategy of development (Poverty Reduction, Trade-Not-Aid, Good Governance, or Sustainable Development).
If you are interested in field-testing this lesson plan, click here. E-mail globalization101@gmail.com to field test this lesson plan.
Lesson Plan: Sustainable Development and Africa's Wildlife Reserves
This lesson plan is hosted on National Geographic's Xpeditions website. It was developed by National Geographic staff and by Rebecca Weiner, Project Associate of the Globalization101.org project. This lesson plan will help students understand the role of sustainable development as a form of economic development. Using wildlife reserves in Africa as a case study, students will learn about the key challenges in creating and sustaining the reserves, including how globalization affects the process.
Environment
Unit on Globalization and the Environment
In this lesson students will learn about the impacts of globalization on the environment and how different societies define and try to address environmental problems. They will learn about the ways in which the globalized world attempts to address the environmental challenges. Students will participate in a mock negotiation on the Kyoto Protocol for global greenhouse gas emissions reductions.
Health
Unit on Health & Globalization
This unit contains a series of activities through which students will study how globalization has affected health around the world, learn about international public health officials' suggested responses to the spread of infectious diseases, and participate in a role-playing exercise about providing inexpensive medications to poor countries.
Lesson Plan on Prescription Drug Prices
In this lesson, students will learn about the issue of prescription drug prices in the United States. They will learn how globalization impacts the available remedies to lower the costs to American consumers. They will learn how various interest groups and international agreements impact the decision-making process and the alternatives available to the U.S. government. The students will participate in a mock U.S. Senate Commerce Committee hearing designed to give students practical experience, while applying their newly researched information.
Lesson Plan on Infectious Diseases and Africa
In this lesson, students will learn about the political, economic, social effects of infectious diseases in Africa. Students will about how globalization relates to health and will participate in a role-playing activity to apply for funding to combat a disease, which is prevalent in Africa.
The IMF and World Bank
World Bank & IMF Lesson Plan
In this lesson students will learn about international organizations, specifically the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank, two of the most influential and important global economic institutions. In addition to learning about the history, basic structure and policies of these institutions and the role of the United States, students will be introduced to some of the challenges faced by these institutions. Students will prepare for class by reading the IMF and World Bank Issue Brief and a Washington Post article introducing the World Bank. Class time will be divided into two parts. First, the teacher will guide students through an introductory background and discussion on international institutions using the World Bank as an example. Second, students will be introduced to several key issues facing the World Bank as it makes lending decisions through a brief role-play.
International Law
Unit on International Law and Organizations
In this lesson, students will be introduced to the issues of state sovereignty and governance of international institutions. The first activity introduces the debate between internationalists and the rights of sovereign nations. Students will read an interview with Jeremy Rabkin, one of the most vocal proponents of state sovereignty, and a rebuttal in Foreign Affairs written by Peter Spiro. After becoming familiar with the two sides of the argument, students will role play one of the positions in a mock interview conducted by another member of the class.
Unit on Darfur
In this lesson students will learn about the conflict in
Darfur . Students will examine how history, geopolitics, oil, international law and organizations, and globalization have contributed to the situation in
Darfur. Students will participate in a role-play activity in which they serve on the United Nations Human Rights Council and develop a statement on
Darfur.
Investment
Unit on Foreign Investment & Globalization
This unit contains a series of activities in which students will learn about the role of foreign investment in an economy, learn about the differences between foreign direct investment and foreign portfolio investment, and participate in a role-playing activity on government decision-making related to foreign investment policies.
Unit on Foreign Investment and Latin America
The lesson plan is divided into four activities. The Introductory Discussion provides context and vocabulary for the lesson and Activity 1 provides an application activity for extension of the concepts learned in this lesson. Activity 2 is intended to raise student awareness of the lesson subject, to introduce larger concepts, and to pose challenging questions. Activity 3 tries that the student applies the concept by making decisions from the point of view of a company that wants to choose a country in Latin America for investment purposes. Activity 4 shows the positive and negative effects that foreign investment could have on the Mexican economy. Mr. Gabriel Leandro, a professor of economics at Universidad Latina de Costa Rica, adapted this lesson plan. His website is www.auladeeconomia.com.
To field-test this lesson plan, e-mail g101@carnegieendowment.org.
Migration
Migration Service Learning Lesson Plan:
In this project, students will read sections from the Migration Issue Brief concerning why migration happens and the economic and cultural effects of migration. Students will read “the town that loves refugees” to learn about the resettlement process for refugees in the US. The teacher will engage the students in a discussion about the readings to understand the issues and will have the students learn about the immigrant population in their own community. For the service aspect of the project, students will volunteer at a local refugee resettlement or immigrant services organization and write a report about the experience.
If you would like to be the first to field-test this lesson plan, e-mail globalization101@gmail.com Thank you.
Technology
Unit on Technology & Globalization
This unit contains activities in which students learn about the global effects of information technology in the areas of health, education, and government, discuss the problem of the "digital divide," and participate in a role-playing exercise on developing information technology infrastructure.
Trade
Lesson Plan on the Theory of Comparative Advantage
This plan takes students step-by-step through the theory of comparative advantage and gives them brief exercises to build comprehension.
Lesson Plan on the U.S. Trade Deficit
Students will learn how to define "trade surplus" and "trade deficit," recognize important U.S. trading partners and the nature of the goods and services exchanged among them, and understand concerns of different interest groups, both in the United States and in other countries, as they relate to international trade.
Lesson Plan on Why Nations Trade
Students will learn about the differences between exports and imports, decisions made by individuals, corporations, and governments that affect trade, and how international trade affects a nation's economy.
Lesson Plan on the Trade Deficit in Latin America
This lesson is intended to raise student awareness of the issue of trade balance.The activity applies knowledge gained on the basic equations of the trade balance through a review of current trade issues in
Latin America . This lesson plan has links to articles in Spanish and English and can be used with Spanish-speakers. Links will soon be added to relevant articles and sources in English. Mr. Gabriel Leandro, a professor of economics at ULACIT in Costa Rica, adapted this lesson plan.
Lesson Plan on Intellectual Property: Combating Piracy in China
In this lesson plans students, will learn about the trade in counterfeit goods and how globalization is impacting the trade. Students will learn about the global supply chain of illicit and licit goods and how and where illicit trade is conducted. Additionally, students will participate in a mock U.S. Trade Representatives meeting to fight piracy in China.
Trade Agreements
This lesson plan examines what tools are available to policymakers to influence trade amongst other nations. Students will learn key vocabulary associated with trade liberalization and will debate the strengths and limitations of trade agreements. In addition, students will participate in mock NAFTA negotiations.
Women and Globalization
Unit on Women and Globalization
Despite continuing United Nations and state government efforts to the contrary, women in many parts of the world remain disadvantaged when compared with their male counterparts. This phenomenon is truly global in nature, spanning nearly all the continents, the areas of life and levels of society. In this unit, students will learn how globalization has helped lessen this phenomenon as well as in what additional ways globalization can be used to combat it. Students will prepare power point presentations about how one country is addressing these issues. Students will learn about the role of international and national policy in addressing the inequality of women.
If you would like to be the first to field-test this lesson plan, e-mail globalization101@gmail.com. Thank you.
Energy
Energy Security
In this lesson students will examine the concepts of energy security and energy independence. Students will apply their knowledge in either a debate of the different U.S. presidential candidate’s perspectives on the issues or in a research report and powerpoint presentation of how different countries deal with the issue of energy security.
Lesson Plans in Chinese
Globalization101.org is in the process of being translated into Chinese. Globalization101.org is now offering a translation of the environment lesson plan into Chinese.
To read the translation in simplified characters, click here.
To read the translation in traditional characters, click here.
Syllabi
Globalization101.org is collecting syllabi from high school, college and graduate school courses that address issues of globalization. Please send us copies of your syllabi to add to this page. We would like to thank all educators who have already submitted syllabi to be posted on this page.
High School Courses
Culture and Conflict in the Age of Globalization
This course was taught three times by Ms. Yevgenia Arutyunyan and Mr. Tom Anderson
at Charlotte Country Day School. They uses Globalization101.org materials in this course. This course will ask students to investigate the roots of "globalization" as a historical process. Students will analyze the challenges that globalization has introduced to the West as well as to the developing world. Students will assess the advantages and limitations of the nation-state in an age of globalization, the nature of conflict in a globalizing world, and the options that nations, groups and individuals have in dealing with a rapidly changing world. This course is geared to junior and senior high school students.
Community Colleges
Community Colleges and Globalization
Dr. Rebecca Lake developed this curriculum for Globalization101.org and the National-Louis University Community College Leadership (CCL) Phd program to be used to help community college administrators and staff internationalize their classes and campuses. In this course students examine globalization, its many facets, complexities, paradoxes, and controversies, especially as these affect the mission and work of the community college. The course intends to move the study of globalization beyond the classroom by extending activities into the community and around the world. Students will also refine their theoretical understanding of globalization by studying its concrete manifestations in four domains: cultural, economic, and political and information/technology. The impact of globalization on the future of the community college will be emphasized. Click here for lesson plans associated with this curriculum.
College Courses
Basic Economics
Dr. Rob Catlett teaches this course to students at Emporia State College. This comprehensive economics course (i.e., microeconomics, macroeconomics, and international economics) is intended non-business majors and provides a collegiate understanding of economic theory, ideas, and institutions.
Economics of Globalization
Dr. Joseph Joyce taught this course to college students at Wellesley College. This course examines the reasons for integration across borders of the market in goods and the factors of production, and the consequences of these trends.
Foreign Direct Investment and Multinational Corporations
Dr. Joel Bergman and Dr. Dale Weigel taught this course to graduate students at John Hopkins University, School for Advanced International Studies.
Honors Freshman Seminar on Global Civilization and Honor Freshman Seminar on Globalization Spring 2007
Dr. Marina Cunningham teaches this course to college freshmen at Montclair State University. She uses resources from Globalization101.org in the course.
Global Interdependence
Dr. Brad Farnsworth taught this course to undergraduate business students at the University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business.
Global Business Strategies
Taj Eldridge taught this course to undergraduate business students at the University of Phoenix.
globalEDGEAcademy
Michigan State University CIBER program hosts educational resources, syllabi and games related to international business. Most online modules contain cases or anecdotes, a glossary of terms, quiz questions, and a list of references.
The Global Challenge
As the first course in the University Core sequence, and the first course in
Fairleigh
Dickinson
University 's distance learning sequence, The Global Challenge (Core A) will help prepare you for thinking globally. This is an online course.
The Geography of Globalization
This course is being taught at the Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. It uses materials from Globalization101.org in the course.
Globalization
This course was taught by Professor Suzanne Berger. The whole course can be found on the MIT openware site. This seminar explores changes in the international economy and their effects on domestic politics, economy, and society. Is globalization really a new phenomenon? Is it irreversible? What are effects on wages and inequality, on social safety nets, on production, and innovation? How does it affect relations between developed countries and developing countries? How globalization affects democracy? These are some of the key issues that will be examined.
Globalization and Social Change
Professor Robert Wood taught this course at Rutgers University, Camden. This course explores the global nature of contemporary social change. It takes globalization as the master trend reshaping social life everywhere, while recognizing that social outcomes are shaped through interaction with other processes as well. The course is interdisciplinary, combining perspectives from sociology, anthropology, political science, economics and philosophy to explore the meanings of globalization and its central processes and institutional structures. It pays particular attention to the relationship between globalization, inequality and poverty; the fate of cultural diversity in a globalizing world; and issues of gender, ethnicity, the environment, social justice, and human rights.
Globalization and Sustainability
This course is being taught by Dr. Richard Franke and Dr. Barbara Chasin at Montclair State University in New Jersey. It uses materials from Globalization101.org in the course. This course will explore the origins of and recent trends in globalization. The course also examines the relationship between aspects of globalization and environmental sustainability.
Globalization and World Citizenship
This course is being taught by Dr. J. Michael Adams and Mr. Angelo Carfagna at Fairleigh Dickinson University. In the course, students study the historical foundation of globalization and the evolving formal and informal networks that link the global community. They explore the case for and against world citizenship, the connections and contrasts between national bonds and global interests, and the question of universal values and rights. To view the course online visit http://webcampus.fdu.edu and use fdu for the username and password.
Introduction to Globalization
This course is being taught by Dr. Matthew Sparke at the University of Washington. This course examines globalization in all its diverse forms of world-wide interconnection. Such interconnections include economic ties, political ties, cultural ties, and social ties. There are 3 main skills students develop in this class: 1) research skills, that will be developed through researching how, where and why a particular global corporation has globalized; 2) debating skills, that will be developed in section discussions of videos and political struggles such as the 'Battle in Seattle'; and 3) writing skills, that will be developed through the preparation of an independent research report on a global corporation.
Languages and Globalization
This course is being taught by Dr. Armin Schwegler at the University of California, Irvine. It examines globalization and its effects on languages.
Model United Nations Course
This course was taught by Dr. Mary Pettenger at Western Oregon University. It uses materials from Globalization101.org in the course.
Problems In the Social Sciences
This online course is taught by Dr. Albert G. Jacobbe. The course studies contemporary problems in the Social Sciences. This course explores the problem of globalization. The course studies various theories of globalization and attempts to arrive at satisfactory definition of the historical phenomenon of globalization.
Working in a Global Economy, Fall 2005
This MIT course introduces the main debates about the "new" global economy and their implications for practice and policy. Experts from academia and business will share their findings about, and direct experiences with, different aspects of globalization. This course was taught by Prof. Suzanne Berger and Dr. Serenella Sferza.
Assessments
Globalization Quiz
This quiz was designed by Holly Oppmann, Social Studies Teacher at the George Mason High School in Virginia.
World Bank Quiz
This quiz was designed by Holly Oppmann, Social Studies Teacher at George Mason High School. This quiz can be done as part of the World Bank and IMF lesson plan.
IMF Quiz
This worksheet was developed by Holly Oppmann, Social Studies Teacher at George Mason High School.
Socratic Seminar on Globalization
This seminar was developed by Mr. Ben Herendeen at Sodus High School in New York. This can be used as an assessment piece for a discussion on globalization.
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