SOCY131: GLOBAL SOCIAL ISSUES
FALL SEMESTER 2004
FLC
INSTRUCTOR: Dr.
Roxanna Moayedi
OFFICE #: (202) 884-9266
FAX #: (202) 884-9229
EMAIL: MoayediR@trinitydc.edu
Office Hours Tu. & Th.
COURSE DESCRIPTION AND OBJECTIVES
This course is designed to provoke critical thinking about some contemporary issues involved in the process of globalization. The course will help students acquire the ability to develop an analytical understanding of the following key issues in the globalization theory:
What factors drive the globalization process?
What is the relationship between core/global and periphery/local?
What are the consequences of the globalization process?
What are various forms of protest and resistance against the globalization process?
This course will demonstrate the importance of sociological variables specially those structural variables that have a great impact, if not a determining impact on the ‘way of life’ of a people.
Few subjects require students and instructors to keep up with current affairs quite as much as the study of global problems and issues. To assist students, there is a web site (http://www.plattsburgh.edu/legacy or http://faculty.plattsburgh.edu/richard.robbins/legacy/default.htm) which provides supplementary material for the book. The website includes an Online reader with articles to supplement each of the book chapters and sites arranged according to the chapters of the book links to resources on countries, maps and corporations as well as links to news sources, including mainstream media (e.g. International Herald Tribune, New York Times, Christian Science Monitor), alternative media sources (e.g. New swatch, Green Leaf Weekly, People Tribune) and international media sources (e.g. Africa News Online, South China Morning Post). New sites are continually being added online where you will also find links to search engines and general resources relating to global issues. Materials from these sites will be used to help us discuss the relevant issues and problems in the globalization process and its importance in our lives.
The Merchants of Cool video web site:http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/cool/
REQUIRED TEXT
Richard H. Robbins, (3rd edition)
2002. Global Problems and the Culture of
Capitalism.
OTHER MATERIALS
Videos, Xeroxed materials including
newspaper and journal articles and hopefully one or two guest speakers (during
the community time Tu. and Th. From
ATTENDANCE AND PARTICIPATION
Students are expected to attend and participate in all scheduled classes, and to attend for the full class time allotted. Absences must be for reasons of serious illness or other unavoidable problems. Contact me immediately if you are to miss a class or meeting. It is as important to attend a class when students are presenting as when the professor is presiding. The professor has the right to reduce the final grade of any student with an excess of unexcused absences or late arrivals/early departures.
You will be required to write a number of one page reflections (typed) of videos and presentations. While I will not grade these papers, I will consider them, when I am formulating your class participation grade and assessing your mastery of course content.
Class participation 10%
Community Based Research Project 30%
And Poster Presentation (Nov 23)
Mid term (Oct. 12) 30%
Final 30%
Community Based Research Poster
All students are required to complete a CBR poster. CBR is a collaborative process that produces research information that will be used by community-based organizations. The CBR project integrates civic action with classroom knowledge. The CBR poster should INTEGRATE the course materials, readings and class discussions with what you are learning from your CBR. More information will be provided in the class.
SPECIFICATION
FOR CBR PROJECT
Students will condact
telephone interviews with food providers (after school programs, summer feeding
sites, soup kitchens, food pantries, mobile feeding programs) in
A Collaborative Project with the Salvation Army, Capital Area Food Bank, Georgetown University, Trinity University, and the Urban Institute
1. Background on project
This project was
started by a GU student Natasha Dasani last semester in the Project DC course
taught by Dr. Sam Marullo
ü D.C. Food Insecurity
ü D.C. Poverty (see map)
ü Need articulated by food providers
Capital Area Food Bank: http://www.capitalareafoodbank.org/site/PageServer
Salvation Army: http://www1.salvationarmy.org/ihq/www_sa.nsf
ü
Models of other websites:
ü Project by Natasha Dasani: https://lumen.georgetown.edu/faculty/marullos/public/index.cfm?fuseaction=poster.fullList
2. Overview of Data
ü Sources
ü Phone numbers
3. Protocol
ü Survey instrument
§ Consent form
§ Phone call log
§ Questionnaire
ü Key points to keep in mind
4. Next steps
ü Cleaning up the questionnaires
ü Coding the data
ü Inputting the data
ü Data analysis
ü Web site construction
ü Dissemination and training
4. Timelines
Complete calls by: __________________________
Turn in completed forms:
CHANGES
MAY BE MADE TO ANY PART(S) OF THIS SYLLABUS AND/OR OTHER ASSIGNMENTS MAY BE
ADDED OR SUBSTITUTED BY THE INSTRUCTOR AND/OR STUDENTS (WITH PERMISSION) DURING
THE SEMESTER.
NOTICE: We will not meet on Th. Sep. 9. In exchange, you are required to attend one session of the Educating Women and girls Worldwide Symposium. The symposium will be held at Trinity from Sep. 10 to 12. You are required to write a one page reflection paper which will include the following:
Brief summary of the session (1 paragraph)
Discuss the relevance of the issues presented to concepts in our course
Conclude with personal reflections