Week 1: Introduction to course, to globalization & related concepts

Background: From HUM 2020: Encountering the Humanities

• What are the Humanities?
• Questions in the Humanities
• Humanities Skills
• Interdisciplinarity

Globalization

• Questions about Globalization
• Some Definitions of Globalization
• Globalization Topics
• Globalization: Threat or Opportunity (IMF document)
• The Globalization Page
• World Trade Organization (WTO)
• WTOWatch

Anti-Globalization

• Adbusters
• McSpotlight - A site on the "McDonaldization" of the world
• NoLogo.org - an organization that sprang from Naomi Klein's book, No Logo