Dr. Heather Hindman
Fellows 417, X8510 (direct)
Office Hours Mon. 10:30-11:30, Tues. 1-2

INTL 100
Introduction to International Studies
The Making of the Modern World
MWF 9:30-10:20 Knapp 106
Spring 2004

The close of the 20th century marked the end of the Cold War and its defining interactions between polarized world camps. This period was also marked by a double movement: on the one hand toward more sharply defined and powerful nation-state formations; on the other hand toward the dilution and transcendence of nation-states, and the rise in importance of non-state and transnational actors. This course introducs students to some of the issues that have assumed transnational dimensions in the world of the past few decades, organized around this state/non-state dichotomy.

The field of international studies has emerged to consider how one might study this changed world and to develope new frameworks for understanding the world. Students in this course will be introduced to both a history of ways of seeing the world (world governance, world systems theory) and critical views of these methods. Moving into the contemporary era, the course will encourage participants to think about the connections between the past and the present and the demands of a new (?) world order place upon how we view global processes, including migration, economics, politics and human rights. The conclusion of the course will encourage us to become more critical readers of what is said in the popular media about the world.

Required texts:

Minz, Sweetness and Power
Conrad, Heart of Darkness
Anderson, Imagined Communities
Ghosh, In An Antique Land
Hoy, Players and Issues of International Aid

You will read most of these books cover-to-cover so I recommend you purchase them

PLEASE BRING THE MATERIAL BEING ADDRESSED TO CLASS EACH DAY - This will allow us to consult the text during class and look at particular passages.

Additional readings will be available on the libraries electronic reserve system (ERES) as well as on physical reserve. When we are reading articles or sections from a book, I have usually put the entire book on physical reserve and I encourage you to take a look at other electronic reserve, Blackboard and the drop box system on Blackboard. "I didn't know how to get the readings", is not a legitimate excuse for lack of preparation in this course. I will also be communicating with you via email regarding changes in course assignments and additional information. Ensure that your email is listed properly on Blackboard to receive these announcements.

Newspapers, Media and World Events

It is an expectation of this class that you will read a newspaper and critically analyze depictions of current events. We will be speaking about these in class and your participation will demand an ability to connect class readings with events in the world. The New York Times is available at the Denison Bookstore at a subsidized rate and is available in the International Studies Program's study area. You should also visit websites for non-U. S. based media outlets.

The BBC and Guardian Weekly are excellent British resources. Google also provides an international news indexing service at http://news.google.com/news/en/us/world.html. Note that many newspapers in other countries have English language versions. For a different outlook on a news item, look at what the local newspaper is saying about it. Also, keep an eye on the "External Links" section of Blackboard for other news sourses. I encourage you to bring articles to share with the class.We will often spend the first few minutes of class talking about current news events. People who do not participate in these conversations will find their participation grade negatively influenced.

Policies
I expect students to come to class regularly, on-time and prepared. If you do not do this, not only will your grade be negatively affected, but it disrupts the learning process of your fellow students as well as showing a lack of respect for the course. This is admittedly one of my pet peeves. We will discuss my expectations for attendance in class, but if you have any questions, I encourage you to discuss them with me promptly.

Similarly, I expect students to conduct their research and writing honestly and to correctly reference any sources consulted. Plagiarism is theft and a particular heinous crime to those whose life is writing and research. Any dishonest academic practice will be referred to the administration for investigation. Please consult Writing for Sources on appropriate formats for citation. If in doubt, contact me - do not guess.

I will provide assignment sheets for all major assignments as well as discussing the requirements in class. Pay careful attention to these discussions - you will benefit in this class from following directions. When visiting the Writing Center (which I strongly encourage) bring your assignment sheet with you. Keep this syllabus and all assignment sheets and consult them regularly.

I do not accept late work, in large part because the disrespect it shows to other students. It is unfair to your fellow students who stayed up all night to complete a paper on time for you to receive extra time. If you do have extenuating circumstances, please speak with me in advance and be prepared to provide documentation for your situation.

If you feel that you may need some particular accommodation to facilitate your participation in class, please contact me as soon as possible as well as visiting the Office of Academic Support.

IN SUMMARY - If in doubt, ask. I am much happier discussing potential problems and concerns than dealing with events in the past or problems that have been allowed to grow over time.

Assignments
Map Quiz    10%
6 Reading Responses (out of 7)    20%
2 "mid"terms    20%
Class participation    20%
Final Project/Exam    30%

Making of the World/Mapping the World

Jan. 19
  Class policies, Mapping Assignment
Jan. 21
   "Power of Maps", in Scientific America May 1993
   The Myth of Continents,, "Introduction" (1-19)
Jan 23
   WebsiteNews Bias Explored-http://www.umich.edu/~newsbias/index.html
  "The Three Worlds, or the Division of Social Scientific Labor, circa 1950-1975" in Comparative Studies in Society and History 23(4) (565-590)

History and Historiography

Jan. 26    "The World System in the Thirteenth Century" in Islamic and European Expansion (75-102)
Jan. 28    Response paper 1 due - Map Quiz
   Discussion of Response papers and current events
Traveling in the West Jan. 30
In An Antique Land "Prologue", Lataifa" (1-105)
Feb. 2
In An Antique Land "Nashawy" (107-237)
Feb. 4
In An Antique Land "Mangalore", Going Back", "Epilogue" (239-353)
Feb. 6   Response paper 2 due - Map Quiz
   Discussion of Response papers and current events
Who has history? Feb. 9
Europe and the People without History (1-72)
Feb. 11
Europe and the People without History (73-126)
Feb. 13
Europe and the People without History (385-391)
Feb. 16    Midterm#1

Special (Required) Event

February 17 - 8:00 PMTom Frank "X-treme Capitalism and the Demoracy Bubble" in Burton Morgan AmphitheatreCommodities and history Feb. 18
Sweetness and Power "Introduction", Chapters 1,2 (xv-73)
Feb. 20
Sweetness and Power Chapter 3 (74-150)
Feb. 23
Sweetness and Power Chapter 4,5 (151-214)
Feb. 25
Response paper 3 due
   Discussion of Response papers and current eventsColonialism Feb. 27
   "Discourses on Colonialism" Aime Cesaire
March 1
Heart of Darkness
March 3
Heart of Darkness
Development
March 5   Response paper 4 due
   &nbspFILM (AAS)
March 8
Players and Issues in International Aid,Introduction, Chapters 1-3 (1-80)
March 10
Players and Issues in International Aid,Chapter 4-7 (81-150)
March 12
   Midterm #2

March 22
The History of DevelopmentChapters 1,3 (8-24, 47-68))
March 24
   FILM on Development/LIBRARY ASSIGNMENT
March 26
Encountering DevelopmentChapters 1,2 (1-54)
March 31
   Ferguson - "Global Disconnect" from Expectations of Modernity
April 2    Response paper 5 due
   Discussion of Response papers and current events Nations and Nationalism April 5
   In Becoming National "What is a Nation", "The Origins of Nations", "The Nation Form"
April 7
   In Becoming National "Historicizing National Identity"
   In Invention of Tradition "Inventing Traditions", "The Invention of Tradition"
April 9
Imagined CommunitiesChapter 1-6 (1-82)
April 12
Imagined Communities Chapter 7-10 (83-186)
April 14   Response paper 6 due
   Discussion of Response papers and current events
April 16   PAPER TOPICS DUE
   Lecture on Immigration History Immigration and Diaspora April 19
Immigrant AmericaPortes (93-154)
April 21
The Age of MigrationCastels and Miller (1-104)
April 23
   Recent articles on Migration TBA - ereserve Globalization

April 26
   Sassen,The Global City,Chs. 1-2 (1-36)
April 28
One World(11-53)
April 30
One World(333-387) May 3
Response paper 7 due    Discussion of Response papers and current events
FINAL PROJECT DUE
Friday, May 7th at 5PM

Professor Sita Ranchod-Nilsson
Fellows 420, X6528 direct, X6393 [ Truet McDowell Program Assistant]
email: ranchod@denison.edu
Office Hours M & W 1:00-2:00, Thursdays 1:30-3:30 and by appointment

INTL 100
Introduction to International Studies
The Making of the Modern World
Spring 2005

International Studies is the interdisciplinary exploration of global processes that shape broad international trends as well as the specific historically and culturally embedded lives of people throughout the world. As a field International Studies is relatively new, combining knowledge and methods from the social sciences, the humanities and the fine arts. The field emerged in the late 1970s partly in response to a number of global developments involving the increased mobility of people associated with political turmoil; labor and tourism; shifting forms of production and finance; the HIV/AIDS pandemic; human rights regimes; nuclear proliferation; expansion of consumer markets and commoditization; and developments in technology and global media, among others. Understanding these issues and, in some cases addressing related problems, required scholars to transcend limitations imposed by diciplinary boundaries.

There are a wide range of subjects that fall within the purview of inquiry International Studies from the meanings and financial implications of cultural flows associated with the global proliferation of McDonald's or Bollywood movies, to the changing composition of the global manufacturing workforce, to the shifting balance of power between states and transnational organizations. This list of merely suggestive. In each of these cases global processes associated with the moblity of people, capital, ideas and power transcend the boundaries of states and cultural groups; and issues of politics, economics and culture intersect. The exploration of global processes is both historical and contemporary. These characteristics distinquish International Studies from othe fields. This course will introduce you to some of the basic concepts and analytical skills associated with International Studies. It is the first core course in the Internationl Studies major and it fulfills the "Interdisciplinary and world Issues." requirement of the General Education Program. Whether or not you decide to purse an International Studies major, this course will help you develop a more sophisticated understanding of how the world works and your place in it.
Required Readings - Books
The following books are available for purchase from the University bookstore:
Amitav Ghosh, In an Antique Land
Sidney Mintz, Sweetness and Power
Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities
C. A. Bayly, The Birth of the Modern World, 1780-1914
William Adler,Molly's Job
Dhooleka Sarhadi Raj,Where are You From? Middle Class Migrants in the Modern World

Articles- a series of articles from a wide variety of publications is available on Electronic Reserves [ERES] and accessible through the library's webpage. The password for our class is "mod05" (case sensitive).

PLEASE BRING THE ASSIGNED MATERIAL TO CLASS EACH DAY. - This will allow us to consult the text during class.

Newspapers and Periodicals: We will be talking about current events and how they relate to issues we are discussing in the course on a regular basis. Therefore, it is imperative that you seek out good sources of information on global issues. There are many ways to access this information. The New York Times is available locally (at a subsidized rate of $.40 an issue in our bookstore and free in the International Studies resource area on the fourth floor of Fellows). You can also sign up for free daily email from The New York Times. Savvy International Studies scholars, however, are sensitive to issues of perspective and biases in news reporting and make every effort to check out multiple sources. The following websites may be helpful: http://allafrica.com
http//mg.co.za[Daily Mail & Guardian from S. Africa]
http://www.nytimes.com
http://washingtonpost.com
http:mews.bbc.co.uk
http:aljazeer.net
http:timesofindia.indiatimes.com
http:www.lemonde.fr
http:www.lexpress.fr
http://www.utm.edu/departments/french/french/ (choose link for press, radio and television)
http://www.speigel.de
http://www.zeit.de
http://www.lanic.utexas.edu (choose the link "Media and Communication")
This list is not exhaustive. Google also provides an international new indexing service at http://news.google.com. Clink on "world". Note that many newspapers in other countries have English language versions. In addition, I would recommend that you regularly peruse the following periodicals: Foreign Policy, The Atlantic Monthly, The Economist, The Nation, The New York Review of Books. All are available in our library.Required Films:
I like to use films in this course because not only do they give us the opportunity to think about how global processes are experienced by real people in particular historical, geographical and cultural contexts, they also convey in visual terms key concept and relationships that we will be reading about. Most films exceed the time allotted for our regular class, so films are scheduled for five Tuesday evenings throughout the semester. Even if you've seen them before, you should plan to attend these class showings. All films will be shown on 7:00pm in Olin Auditorium. Specific dates are also noted in the course schedule.
Taxi to Timbuktu (Feb. 1)
Supersize Me (Mar 1)
The Manchurian Candidate (Mar 29)
Bread and Roses (Apr 19)
TBA (Apr 26)

Course Requirements:
Participation - Regular and meaningful participation is an important part of this course. Students are expected to be active participants in this course. This means, at a minimum that you will attend the course regularly, complete all reading and writing assignments in a timely fashion and that you will offer valuable contributions to our class discussions on a regular basis. My assessment of participation also involves taking into account the level of student engagement. Does a student demonstrate a genuine interest in the topics and conceptual issues raised by the Course? Does a student go beyond the syllabus to introduce new information (from regular reading of news periodicals and other courses or independent reading) into our discussions? Truly exemplary participation will also demonstrate these characteristics. Failure to regularly meaningfully participate in class will negatively affect your grade. To help encourage your participation I will ask you to submit written responses to six reading questions throughout the semester. Three of these responses must be completed by spring break (3/11) (Reading responses will each count for 2% of your final grade and participation/attendance will comprise 8% of your grade for a total of 20%.)Midterm and Final Exams-Both exams will primarily involve essay questions. Questions for the mid-term will be distributed in advance, although the exam will be written in class. The final exam will be a take-home exam. (Exams will count for 15% and 20% respectively of your final grade.) Small Research Project-This project involves research using quantitative date and not more than 10 pages of analysis. Details of this assignment will be distributed several weeks into the course. (This project counts for 15% of your final grade.)Two essays - During the first and second half of the course you will be asked to write essays in response to questions addressing course materials. (Each essay counts for 15% of your final grade.)

Course Policies:Plagiarism-I expect all students to conduct research and writing honestly and to appropriate reference for all sources consulted. Those of us who engage in research and writing take plagiarism very seriously. According to our student handbook, plagiarism is defined as follows: "In any academic assignment, plagiarism involves the use of data, ideas, or works of others without proper use of established or designated forms of acknowledgement, such as footnotes, quotations, bibliographies, etc. Neither ignorance nor carelessness is an acceptable defense in cases of plagiarism." All suspected instances of plagiarism will be referred to the Associate Provost's office for investigation and ajudication. Just as the expanding Internet provides many opportunities for plagiarism, it also provides many tools for professors to use to check for plagiarsim, and I do check. Class Attendance and Tardiness - You are expected to attend class regularly and faithfully. If you have a bonafide and documented excuse for missing class (illness, family emergency, scheduled athletic competition) please inform me in advance of the class that you will miss. Four absences during the semester will result in a full letter drop in your final grade. If you must miss class, please contact a classmate to review what you missed. While I am happy to answer questions and clarify material, I do not consider it my obligation to make up missed classes by individual students. Also, do not come to class late. Late arrivals are not only disruptive; they also convey a lack of respect for the course. Generally, I will shut the classroom door about five minutes after class begins. Please do not enter the class if the door is shut.

Late Work-I do not like late work because it shows disrespect to your classmates. It is also unfiar to your fellow students who stayed up all night to complete a paper on time for you to receive extra time. All assignments will be handed out well in advance of the due date and all good scholars know that one should never postpone working on assignments until the last minute. All assignments should be submitted in class on the day they are due. No electronically submitted assignments will be accepted. Late work will be penalized 10% for 24 hours period after the deadline. Accomodation for Students with Disabilities- Any student who feels he or she may need an accomodation based on the impact of a disability should contact me privately as soon as possible to discuss his or her specific needs. I rely on the Academic support and Enrichment Center in 104 Doane to verify the need for reasonable accomodations based on documentation on file in their office.

In general, if you have questions, concerns or problems related to the course, it is always better to ask in advance than to allow the issue to grow over time.

Professor Sita Ranchod-Nilsson
Fellows 420, X6528 direct, X6393 [ Truet McDowell Program Assistant]
email: ranchod@denison.edu
Office Hours M & W 1:00-2:00, Thursdays 10-11:30 and by appointment

INTL 100
Introduction to International Studies
The Making of the Modern World
Fall 2005

International Studies is the interdisciplinary exploration of global processes that shape broad international trends as well as the specific historically and culturally embedded lives of people throughout the world. As a field International Studies is relatively new, combining knowledge and methods from the social sciences, the humanities and the fine arts. The field emerged in the late 1970s partly in response to a number of global developments involving the increased mobility of people associated with political turmoil; labor and tourism; shifting forms of production and finance; the HIV/AIDS pandemic; human rights regimes; nuclear proliferation; expansion of consumer markets and commoditization; and developments in technology and global media, among others. Understanding these issues and addressing related problems, requires scholars to transcend limitations imposed by diciplinary boundaries.

There are a wide range of subjects that fall within the purview of inquiry International Studies from the meanings and financial implications of cultural flows associated with the global proliferation of McDonald's or Bollywood movies, to the changing composition of the global manufacturing workforce, to the shifting balance of power between states and transnational organizations. This list of merely suggestive. In each of these cases global processes associated with the moblity of people, capital, ideas and power transcend the boundaries of states and cultural groups; and issues of politics, economics and culture intersect. The exploration of global processes is both historical and contemporary. These characteristics distinquish International Studies from othe fields. This course will introduce you to some of the basic concepts and analytical skills associated with International Studies. It is the first core course in the Internationl Studies major and it fulfills the "Interdisciplinary/World Issues." [I]requirement of the General Education Program. Whether or not you decide to purse an International Studies major, this course will help you develop a more sophisticated understanding of how the world works and your place in it.

Required Readings - Books
The following books are available for purchase from the University bookstore:
Amitav Ghosh, In an Antique Land
Sidney Mintz, Sweetness and Power
C. A. Bayly, The Birth of the Modern World, 1780-1914
Dhooleka Sarhadi Raj,Where are You From? Middle Class Migrants in the Modern World
Deborah Barndt.Tangled Routes: Women, Work and Globalization on the Tomato Trail

Articles- a series of articles from a wide variety of publications is available on Electronic Reserves [E] and accessible through the library's webpage. The password for our class is "goglobal" (case sensitive).

PLEASE BRING THE ASSIGNED MATERIAL TO CLASS EACH DAY. - This will allow us to consult the text during class.

Newspapers and Periodicals: We will be talking about current events and how they relate to issues we are discussing in the course on a regular basis. Therefore, it is imperative that you seek out good sources of information on global issues. There are many ways to access this information. The New York Times is available locally (at a subsidized rate of $.40 an issue in our bookstore and free in the International Studies resource area on the fourth floor of Fellows). You can also sign up for free daily email from The New York Times. Savvy International Studies scholars, however, are sensitive to issues of perspective and biases in news reporting and make every effort to check out multiple sources. The following websites may be helpful: http://allafrica.com
http//mg.co.za[Daily Mail & Guardian from S. Africa]
http://www.nytimes.com
http://washingtonpost.com
http:mews.bbc.co.uk
http:aljazeer.net
http:timesofindia.indiatimes.com
http:www.lemonde.fr
http:www.lexpress.fr
http://www.utm.edu/departments/french/french/ (choose link for press, radio and television)
http://www.speigel.de
http://www.zeit.de
http://www.lanic.utexas.edu (choose the link "Media and Communication")
This list is not exhaustive. Google also provides an international news indexing service at http://news.google.com. Clink on "world". Note that many newspapers in other countries have English language versions. In addition, I would recommend that you regularly peruse the following periodicals: Foreign Policy, The Atlantic Monthly, The Economist, The Nation, The New York Review of Books. All are available in our library.

Required Films:
I like to use films in this course because not only do they give us the opportunity to think about how global processes are experienced by real people in particular historical, geographical and cultural contexts. They also convey in visual terms key concept and relationships that we will be reading about. Most films exceed the time allotted for our regular class, so films are scheduled for three Tuesday evenings throughout the semester. Even if you've seen them before, you should plan to attend these class showings. All films will be shown on 7:00pm in Olin Auditorium. Specific dates are also noted in the course schedule.
Supersize Me (Oct. 4)
The Manchurian Candidate (Oct. 25)
American Chai (Nov. 29)

Course Requirements:
Participation - Regular and meaningful participation is an important part of this course and students are expected to be active participants. This means, at minimum that you will attend the course regularly, complete all reading and writing assignments in a timely fashion and that you will offer valuable contributions to our class discussions on a regular basis. My assessment of participation also involves taking into account the level of student engagement. Does a student demonstrate a genuine interest in the topics and conceptual issues raised by the Course? Does a student go beyond the syllabus to introduce new information (from regular reading of news periodicals and other courses or independent reading) into our discussions? Truly exemplary participation will also demonstrate these characteristics. Failure to regularly meaningfully participate in class will negatively affect your grade. To help encourage your participation I will distribute study questions each week. Once or twice during the semester I will ask you initiate class discussion by responding to a study question with a five minute oral statement. I will let you know in advance when you have this responsibility. Twice during the semeter I will give you written feedback on your participation. Your oral responses, plus your overall participation will count for 20% of your final grade. Midterm and Final Exams-Both exams will primarily involve essay questions. Questions for the mid-term will be distributed in advance, although the exam will be written in class. The final exam will be a take-home exam. Each exam will count for 20% of your final grade. Research Project-This project involves research using quantitative data and no more than seven pages of analysis. Details of this assignment will be distributed several weeks into the course. This project counts for 20% of your final grade.Essay - During the first half of the course you will be asked to write a five page essay in response to a question on course materials. The essay counts for 20% of your final grade.

Course Policies:Plagiarism-I expect all students to conduct research and writing honestly and to appropriate reference for all sources consulted. Those of us who engage in research and writing take plagiarism very seriously. According to our student handbook, plagiarism is defined as follows: "In any academic assignment, plagiarism involves the use of data, ideas, or works of others without proper use of established or designated forms of acknowledgement, such as footnotes, quotations, bibliographies, etc. Neither ignorance nor carelessness is an acceptable defense in cases of plagiarism." All suspected instances of plagiarism will be referred to the Associate Provost's office for investigation and ajudication. Just as the expanding Internet provides many opportunities for plagiarism, it also provides many tools for professors to use to check for plagiarsim, and I do check. Class Attendance and Tardiness - You are expected to attend class regularly and faithfully. If you have a bonafide and documented excuse for missing class (illness, family emergency, scheduled athletic competition) please inform me in advance of the class that you will miss. More than three absences during the semester will seriously affect your final grade. If you must miss class, please contact a classmate to review what you missed. While I am happy to answer questions and clarify material, I do not consider it my obligation to make up missed classes by individual students. Also, do not come to class late. Late arrivals are not only disruptive; they also convey a lack of respect for the course. Generally, I will shut the classroom door about five minutes after class begins. Please do not enter the class if the door is shut.

Late Work-I do not like late work because it shows disrespect to your classmates. It is also unfair to your fellow students who stayed up all night to complete a paper on time for you to receive extra time. All assignments will be handed out well in advance of the due date and all good scholars know that one should never postpone working on assignments until the last minute. All assignments should be submitted in class on the day they are due. No electronically submitted assignments will be accepted. Late work will be penalized. Accomodation for Students with Disabilities- Any student who feels he or she may need an accomodation based on the impact of a disability should contact me privately as soon as possible to discuss his or her specific needs. I rely on the Academic Support and Enrichment Center in 104 Doane to verify the need for reasonable accomodations based on documentation on file in their office.

In general, if you have questions, concerns or problems related to the course, it is always better to ask in advance than to allow the issue to grow over time.

Professor Sita Ranchod-Nilsson
Fellows 420, X6528 direct, X6393 [ Truet McDowell Program Assistant]
email: ranchod@denison.edu
Office Hours M 2:30-4:30, W 12:30-1:20 and by appointment

INTL 100
Introduction to International Studies
The Making of the Modern World
Spring 2006

International Studies is the interdisciplinary exploration of global processes that shape broad international trends as well as the specific historically and culturally embedded lives of people throughout the world. As a field International Studies is relatively new, combining knowledge and methods from the social sciences, the humanities and the fine arts. The field emerged in the late 1970s partly in response to a number of global developments involving the increased mobility of people associated with political turmoil; labor and tourism; shifting forms of production and finance; the HIV/AIDS pandemic; human rights regimes; nuclear proliferation; expansion of consumer markets and commoditization; and developments in technology and global media, among others. Understanding these issues and, in some cases addressing related problems, required scholars to transcend limitations imposed by diciplinary boundaries.

There are a wide range of subjects that fall within the purview of inquiry International Studies from the meanings and financial implications of cultural flows associated with the global proliferation of McDonald's or Bollywood movies, to the changing composition of the global manufacturing workforce, to the shifting balance of power between states and transnational organizations. This list of merely suggestive. In each of these cases global processes associated with the moblity of people, capital, ideas and power transcend the boundaries of states and cultural groups; and issues of politics, economics and culture intersect. The exploration of global processes is both historical and contemporary. These characteristics distinquish International Studies from othe fields. This course will introduce you to some of the basic concepts and analytical skills associated with International Studies. It is the first core course in the Internationl Studies major and it fulfills the "Interdisciplinary and world Issues." requirement of the General Education Program. Whether or not you decide to purse an International Studies major, this course will help you develop a more sophisticated understanding of how the world works and your place in it.

Required Readings - Books
The following books are available for purchase from the University bookstore:
Amitav Ghosh, In an Antique Land
Sidney Mintz, Sweetness and Power
Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities
C. A. Bayly, The Birth of the Modern World, 1780-1914
William Adler,Molly's Job
Dhooleka Sarhadi Raj,Where are You From? Middle Class Migrants in the Modern World
Deborah Barndt, Tangled Routes: Women, Work and Globalization on the Tomato Trail

Articles- a series of articles from a wide variety of publications is available on Electronic Reserves [E] and accessible through the library's webpage. The password for our class is "modworld".

PLEASE BRING THE ASSIGNED MATERIAL TO CLASS EACH DAY. - This will allow us to consult the text during class.

Newspapers and Periodicals: We will be talking about current events and how they relate to issues we are discussing in the course on a regular basis. Therefore, it is imperative that you seek out good sources of information on global issues. There are many ways to access this information. The New York Times is available locally (at a subsidized rate of $.40 an issue in our bookstore and free in the International Studies resource area on the fourth floor of Fellows). You can also sign up for free daily email from The New York Times. Savvy International Studies scholars, however, are sensitive to issues of perspective and biases in news reporting and make every effort to check out multiple sources. The following websites may be helpful: http://allafrica.com
http//mg.co.za[Daily Mail & Guardian from S. Africa]
http://www.nytimes.com
http://washingtonpost.com
http:mews.bbc.co.uk
http:aljazeer.net
http:timesofindia.indiatimes.com
http:www.lemonde.fr
http:www.lexpress.fr
http://www.utm.edu/departments/french/french/ (choose link for press, radio and television)
http://www.speigel.de
http://www.zeit.de
http://www.lanic.utexas.edu (choose the link "Media and Communication")This list is not exhaustive. Google also provides an international new indexing service at http://news.google.com. Clink on "world". Note that many newspapers in other countries have English language versions. In addition, I would recommend that you regularly peruse the following periodicals: Foreign Policy, The Atlantic Monthly, The Economist, The Nation, The New York Review of Books. All are available in our library.Required Films:
I like to use films in this course because not only do they give us the opportunity to think about how global processes are experienced by real people in particular historical, geographical and cultural contexts. They also convey in visual terms key concept and relationships that we will be reading about. This semester will inaugurate the first Denison Human Rights Film Festival. This will involve four films that will be shown on four consecutive Tuesdays in February. Since most films exceed the time allotted for our regular class, you will be required to attend 5 films on weeknight evenings during the semester. One course film, Supersize Me is scheduled for Monday, February 20th at 7:00pm (location TBA). The other films are currently being scheduled and the times and venues will be announced as soon as they have been finalized.

Course Requirements:
Participation - Regular and meaningful participation is an important part of this course. Students are expected to be active participants in this course. This means, at a minimum that you will attend the course regularly, complete all reading and writing assignments in a timely fashion and that you will offer valuable contributions to our class discussions on a regular basis. My assessment of participation also involves taking into account the level of student engagement. Does a student demonstrate a genuine interest in the topics and conceptual issues raised by the Course? Does a student go beyond the syllabus to introduce new information (from regular reading of news periodicals and other courses or independent reading) into our discussions? Truly exemplary participation will also demonstrate these characteristics. Failure to regularly meaningfully participate in class will negatively affect your grade. To help encourage your participation I will distribute study questions each. week. Once or twice during the semester I will ask you to initiate class discussion by responding to a study question with a five minute oral statement. I will let you know in advance when you have this responsibility. Twice during the semester I will give you written feedback on participation. Your oral responses, plus overall participation will count for 20% of your final grade. Midterm and Final Exams - Both exams will primarily involve essay questions. Questions for the mid-term will be distributed in advance, although the exam will be written in class. The final exam will be a take-home exam. Each exam will count for 20% of your final grade. Research Project - This project involves research using quantitative data and no more than 7 pages of analysis. Details of this assignment will be distributed several weeks into the course. This project counts for 20% of your final grade.Essays - During the first and second half of the course you will be asked to write essays in response to questions addressing course materials. (Each essay counts for 20% of your final grade.)

Course Policies:Plagiarism-I expect all students to conduct research and writing honestly and to appropriate reference for all sources consulted. Those of us who engage in research and writing take plagiarism very seriously. According to our student handbook, plagiarism is defined as follows: "In any academic assignment, plagiarism involves the use of data, ideas, or works of others without proper use of established or designated forms of acknowledgement, such as footnotes, quotations, bibliographies, etc. Neither ignorance nor carelessness is an acceptable defense in cases of plagiarism." All suspected instances of plagiarism will be referred to the Associate Provost's office for investigation and ajudication. Just as the expanding Internet provides many opportunities for plagiarism, it also provides many tools for professors to use to check for plagiarsim, and I do check. Class Attendance and Tardiness - You are expected to attend class regularly and faithfully. If you have a bonafide and documented excuse for missing class (illness, family emergency, scheduled athletic competition) please inform me in advance of the class that you will miss. Four absences during the semester will result in a full letter drop in your final grade. If you must miss class, please contact a classmate to review what you missed. While I am happy to answer questions and clarify material, I do not consider it my obligation to make up missed classes by individual students. Also, do not come to class late. Late arrivals are not only disruptive; they also convey a lack of respect for the course. Generally, I will shut the classroom door about five minutes after class begins. Please do not enter the class if the door is shut.

Late Work-I do not like late work because it shows disrespect to your classmates. It is also unfiar to your fellow students who stayed up all night to complete a paper on time for you to receive extra time. All assignments will be handed out well in advance of the due date and all good scholars know that one should never postpone working on assignments until the last minute. All assignments should be submitted in class on the day they are due. No electronically submitted assignments will be accepted. Late work will be penalized 10% for 24 hours period after the deadline. Accomodation for Students with Disabilities- Any student who feels he or she may need an accomodation based on the impact of a disability should contact me privately as soon as possible to discuss his or her specific needs. I rely on the Academic support and Enrichment Center in 104 Doane to verify the need for reasonable accomodations based on documentation on file in their office.

In general, if you have questions, concerns or problems related to the course, it is always better to ask in advance than to allow the issue to grow over time.

Gary L. Baker
Fellows 419, X6213 direct, x6369 (program assistant)
email: bakerg@denison.edu

INTL 100
Introduction to International Studies 100.01
The Making of the Modern World
Fall 2006

International Studies is the interdisciplinary exploration of global processes that shape broad international trends as well as the specific historically and culturally embedded lives of people throughout the world. As a field International Studies is relatively new, combining knowledge and methods from the social sciences, the humanities and the fine arts. The field emerged in the late 1970s partly in response to a number of global developments involving the increased mobility of people associated with political turmoil; labor and tourism; shifting forms of production and finance; the HIV/AIDS pandemic; human rights regimes; nuclear proliferation; expansion of consumer markets and commoditization; and developments in technology and global media, among others. Understanding these issues and addressing related problems, requires scholars to transcend limitations imposed by disciplinary boundaries.

There is a wide range of subjects that fall within the purview of inquiry International Studies from the meanings and financial implications of cultural flows associated with the global proliferation of McDonald's or Bollywood movies, to the changing composition of the global manufacturing workforce, to the shifting balance of power between states and transnational organizations. This list of merely suggestive. In each of these cases global processes associated with the moblity of people, capital, ideas and power transcend the boundaries of states and cultural groups; and issues of politics, economics and culture intersect. The exploration of global processes is both historical and contemporary. These characteristics distinquish International Studies from other fields. This course will introduce you to some of the basic concepts and analytical skills associated with International Studies. It is the first core course in the Internationl Studies major and it fulfills the "Interdisciplinary and World Issues." requirement of the General Education Program. Whether or not you decide to pursue an International Studies major, this course will help you develop a more sophisticated understanding of how the world works and your place in it.

Required Readings - Books
Books - The following books are available for purchase from the University bookstore:
Amitav Ghosh, In an Antique Land
Sidney Mintz, Sweetness and Power
Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities
William Adler, Mollie's Job
Daphne Berdahl, Where the World Ended

Articles- a series of articles from a wide variety of publications is available on Electronic Reserves [E] and accessible through the library's webpage. The password for our class is "petropolitics" (case sensitive).

PLEASE BRING THE ASSIGNED MATERIAL TO CLASS EACH DAY. - This will allow us to consult the text during class.

Newspapers and Periodicals: We will be talking about current events and how they relate to issues we are discussing in the course on a regular basis. Therefore, it is imperative that you seek out good sources of information on global issues. There are many ways to access this information. The New York Times is available. You can also sign up for free daily email from The New York Times. International Studies scholars, however, are sensitive to issues of perspective and biases in news reporting and make every effort to check out multiple sources. The following websites may be helpful: http://allafrica.com
http//mg.co.za[Daily Mail & Guardian from S. Africa]
http://www.nytimes.com
http://washingtonpost.com
http:mews.bbc.co.uk
http:aljazeer.net
http:timesofindia.indiatimes.com
http:www.lemonde.fr
http:www.lexpress.fr
http://www.utm.edu/departments/french/french/ (choose link for press, radio and television)
http://www.speigel.de
http://www.zeit.de
http://www.lanic.utexas.edu (choose the link "Media and Communication")
This list is, of course, not exhaustive. Google also provides an international news indexing service at http://news.google.com. Clink on "world". Note that many newspapers in other countries have English language versions. In addition, I would recommend that you regularly peruse the following periodicals: Foreign Policy, The Atlantic Monthly, The Economist, The Nation, The New York Review of Books. All are available in our library.

Required Films:
I like to use films in this course because not only do they give us the opportunity to think about how global processes are experienced by real people in particular historical, geographical and cultural contexts. They also convey in visual terms key concept and relationships that we will be reading about. Most films exceed the time allotted for our regular class, so films are scheduled for three Tuesday evenings throughout the semester. Even if you've seen them before, you should plan to attend these class showings. All films will be shown on 7:00pm in Olin Auditorium. Specific dates are also noted in the course schedule.
Taxi to Timbuktu (September 12)
Mardi Gras Made In China (Oct. 31)
Goodbye, Lenin (Nov. 3 and 4)

Course Requirements:
Participation - Regular and meaningful participation is an important part of this course. Students are expected to be active participants in this course. This means, at minimum that you will attend the course regularly, complete all reading and writing assignments in a timely fashion and that you will offer valuable contributions to our class discussions on a regular basis. My assessment of participation also involves taking into account the level of student engagement. Does a student demonstrate a genuine interest in the topics and conceptual issues raised by the Course? Does a student go beyond the syllabus to introduce new information (from regular reading of news periodicals and other courses or independent reading) into our discussions? Truly exemplary participation will also demonstrate these characteristics. Failure to regularly meaningfully participate in class will negatively affect your grade. To help encourage your participation I will ask you to submit six 350-400 world responses to posted reading questions throughout the semester. Three of these responses must be completed on or before mid semester (10/16). Responses that are off mark, show no sign of familiarity with the reading, or are unreflective will receive partial credit. Reading responses will each count for 2% of your final grade. The other 6% break down accordingly, participated rearely 1%, sometimes 2%, frequently 4% or always 6%. Hourly and Final Exams- The hourly exams will primarily involve short-answer questions. Questions for the final will be distributed in advance. The final exam will be distributed in advance. The final exam will be a take-home exam. (Hourly exams are worth 20% each while the final is worth 12%) Essay - Within the first few weeks of the course you will be asked to write an essay in response to questions about the readings. (The essay counts for 15% of your final grade. Research Project-Details of this assignment will be distributed a few weeks into the course. (This project counts for 15% of your final grade.)Course

Policies:Plagiarism-I expect all students to conduct research and writing honestly and to appropriate reference for all sources consulted. Those of us who engage in research and writing take plagiarism very seriously. According to our student handbook, plagiarism is defined as follows: "In any academic assignment, plagiarism involves the use of data, ideas, or works of others without proper use of established or designated forms of acknowledgement, such as footnotes, quotations, bibliographies, etc. Neither ignorance nor carelessness is an acceptable defense in cases of plagiarism." All suspected instances of plagiarism will be referred to the Associate Provost's office for investigation and ajudication. Just as the expanding Internet provides many opportunities for plagiarism, it also provides many tools for professors to use to check for plagiarsim, and I do check. Class Attendance and Tardiness - You are expected to attend class regularly and faithfully. If you have a bonafide and documented excuse for missing class (illness, family emergency, scheduled athletic competition) please inform me in advance of the class that you will miss. More than two absences during the semester will seriously affect your final grade. If you must miss class, please contact a classmate to review what you missed. While I am happy to answer questions and clarify material, I do not consider it my obligation to make up missed classes by individual students. Also, do not come to class late. Late arrivals are not only disruptive; they also convey a lack of respect for the course. Generally, I will shut the classroom door about five minutes after class begins. Please do not enter the class if the door is shut.

Late Work-I do not accept late work because it shows disrespect to your classmates. It is also unfair for you to receive extra time when your fellow students complete assignments on time, sometimes under duress. All assignments will be handed out well in advance of the due date and all savvy scholars know that one should never postpone working on assignments until the last minute. All assignments must be submitted in class on the day they are due. No electronically submitted assignments will be accepted. When an assignment is due hand in what you have - for that I can give partial credit. Accommodation for Students with Disabilities- Any student who feels he or she may need an accomodation based on the impact of a disability should contact me privately as soon as possible to discuss his or her specific needs. I rely on the Academic Support and Enrichment Center in 104 Doane to verify the need for reasonable accommodations based on documentation on file in their office.

In general, if you have questions, concerns or problems related to the course, it is always better to ask in advance than to allow the issue to grow over time.

Instructor: Isis Nusair
Office: Knapp Hall 210C, 587-8537
Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays 4:30-6:00

INTL 100
Introduction to International Studies
The Making of the Modern World
Tuesdays and Thursdays 3-4:20 Fellows 203
Fall 2006

Course Description
This interdisciplinary course introduces students to some of the basic concepts and analytical skills associated with International Studies as an interdisciplinary field that explores global processes that shape broad international trends and its effects on human lives. Students in this course will be introduced to both a history of the ways of seeing the world and critical views of these methods. Moving into the contemporary era, the course will encourage participants to think about the connections between the past and the present, the demands of a "new world order," and how we view global processes. The course traces global developments that involved the shifting balance of power between states and transnational organizations, increased mobility of people, shifting forms or production and finance, HIV/AIDs pandemic, human rights, nuclear proliferation, expansion of consumer markets and commoditization, sustainability and developments in technology, and the global media. In each of these cases we will trace how global processes associated with the moblility of people, capital, ideas and power transcend the boundaries of states and cultural groups, and how issues of politics, economics and culture intersect. Our exploration of global processes is both historical and contemporary. The course encourages students to become more critical about what is said in popular media about the world, and understand global processes and the interconnectedness of the world in which we live.

This course is the first core course in the International Studies major and it fulfills the "Interdisciplinary and World Issues" requirement of the General Education Program. Whether or not you decide to pursue an International Studies major, this course will help you develoop a more sophisticated understanding of how the world works and your place in it.

Class Requirements
Students are expected to read the course material, attend screening sessions, and participate in class disucssion. The course requirements also include 2 class presentations, 2 blackboard posting, 5 assignments and a final exam. The final exam constitutes 30% of the evaluation, the assignments consstitute 50% of the evaluation, class presentations constitute 10% of the evaluation, and class participation and web-postings constitute 10% of the evaluation.Separate guidelines explaining these assignments will be posted on Blackboard.

Course Policies
Plagarism: Students and faculty at Denison University and the Department of Interantional Studies are committed to academic integrity and will not tolerate any violation of this principle. Academic honesty is the cornerstone of teaching and learning. Academic dishonesty is, in most cases, intellectual theft. It includes, but is not limited to, providing or receiving assistance in a manner not authorized by the instructor in the creation of work to be submitted for evaluation. This standard applies to all work ranging from daily homework assignments to major exams. Students must clearly cite any sources consulted , not only for quoted phrases but also for ideas and information that are not common knowledge. Neither ignorance nor carelessness is an acceptable defense in cases of plagiarism. It is the student's responsibility to follow the appropriate citation format. As is indicated in Denison's Student Handbook, available through www.mydenison.edu, instructors must refer every act of academic dishonesty to the Associate Provost, and violations may result in failure in the course, suspension, or explusion. See:
http://www.denison.edu/studentaffairs/handbook/article7.html
Disability: Any student who feels he or she may need an accommodation based on the impact of a disabiity should contact me privately as soon as possible to discuss his or her specific needs. I rely on the Academic Support & Enrichment Center in 104 Doane to verify the need for reasonable accomoodations based on documentation on file in that office.
Attendance: You are expected to attend class regularly. More than three absences during the semester will seriously affect your final grade.
Evaluation: Students are required to write midterm and final evaluations of their performance in the class.
Printing: All class material should be printed double-sided in order to save on paper and protect the environment.

Reading Material
Reading materials will be avilable at the bookstore and on ERES. Various handouts and supplementary matieral will be distributed in class and posted on Blackboard.

Required Books
Ahmed, Leila.1999.Border Pasage: A Women's Journey from Cairo to America. New York: Penguin Books.
Conrad, Joseph. 1999.Heart of Darkenss. New York: The Modern Library.
Mintz, W. Sidney. 1986. Sweetness and Power. New York: Penguin Books.
Rothenberg, Paul S. 2006. Beyond Borders; Thinking Critically About Global Issues. New York: Worth Publishers.
Smith, Dan. 2003. The Penguin State of the World Atlas. London: Penguin Books.

Recommended Books
Anderson, Benedict. 1991.Imagined Communitities. London: Verso.
Bardt, Deborah. 2002.Tangled Routes: Women, Work and Globalization on the Tomato Trail. New York: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
Bayly, C.A. 2004. The Birth of the Modern World. Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishing.
Khalidi, Rashid. 2004.Resurrecting Empire: Western Footprints and America's Perilous Path in the Middle East. Boston: Beacon Press.

Newspapers and Periodicals
We will discuss current events on a regular basis. Therefore, it is imperative that you seek out good sources of information on global issues. Savvy International Studies scholars are senstive to issues of perspective and biases in news reporting and make every effort to check out multiple sources. The following websites may be helpful:
http://allafrica.com
http//mg.co.za
http://www.nytimes.com
http://washingtonpost.com
http://www.guardian.co.uk
http://www.independent.co.uk
http:english.aljazeer.net/HomePage
http:jordantimes.com/thu/index.htm
http:www.dailystart.com.lb/home2.asp
http:www.haaaretz.com
http:www.jpost.com
http:timesofindia.indiatimes.com
http:www.liberation.fr
http:www.lemonde.fr
http:www.lexpress.fr
http://www.speigel.de
http://www.zeit.de In addition, I would recommend that you regularly pursue the following periodicals (all are available at the library): Foreign Policy, The Atlantic Monthly, The Nation, The New Yorker, and The New York Review of Books.

Films
Apocalypse Now, Francis Ford Coppola, 1989, 153 minutes
Bread and Roses, Ken Loach, 2000, 110 minutes.
Four Women of Egypt, Tahani Rached, 1999, 90 minutes
The Global Assembly Line, Lorraine Gray, 1986, 60 minutes.
Mardi Gras: Made in China, David Redman, 2004, 72 minutes.
Occupation: Dreamland, Garett Scott and Ian Olds, 2005, 78 minutes.
State of Fear, Pamela Yates, Paco de Onis and Peter Kinoy, 2005, 94 minutes.
Supersize Me Morgan Spurlock, 2004, 96 minutes.

Class Schedule
August 29th: Introduction and HousekeepingAugust 31st: Maps, Statistics, and the Politics of Naming
David Turnbull, "The Function of Maps,"pp. 7-15 in Beyond Borders.
Janice Monk, "Are Things What They Seem to Be? Reading Maps and Statistics," pp. 16-26 in Beyond Borders.
Chilla Bulbeck, "Fracturing Binarisms: First and Third Worlds," pp. 37-41 in Beyond Borders.
Chandra Talpade Mohanty, "One-third/Two-Thirds Worlds,: pp. 41-43 in Beyond Borders.
Mona Abaza, "Orientalism," pp. 394-398 on ERES. Optional reading:
Adriana Mata Greenwood, "Gender Issues in Labor Statistics," pp.27-36 in Beyond BordersSeptember 5th: The Legacy of Colonialism
William Appleman Williams, "Empire as a Way of Life," pp. 81-88 in Beyond Borders.
Felix Greene, "How It Began," pp. 88-97 in Beyond Borders.
Samir Amin, "Eurocentrism," pp. 97-99 in Beyond Borders.
Jerry Kloby, "The Legacy of Colonialism," pp. 99-106 in Beyond Borders
Walter Rodney, "How Europe Underdeveloped Africa," pp. 107-125 in Beyond Borders.
"Colonialism in Africa, 1914," p. 126 in Beyond Borders.September 7th:Discourses on Colonialsm and Post-Colonialsm
Aime Cesaire, "From Discourse on Colonialism," pp. 162-171 on ERES.
Read pages 1-37 in Heart of Darkness.September 12th: Heart of Darkness
Read pages 38-96 in Heart of Darkness.September 14th: Identify, Location and Culture
Sita Ranchod-Nilsson, "Reflecting on Daily Dissonance,: on ERES
Chandra Talpade Mohanty, "On Being South Asian in North America," pp. 209-216 in Beyond Borders.
Ella Shohat, "Dislocated Identities: Reflections of An Arab Jew,: pp. 216-220 in Beyond Borders.
Stuart Hall, "Old and New Identities," pp. 220-224 in Beyond Borders.September 19th: Border Passage
Read Chapters 1-3, pp. 3-67, in A Border Passage.
Paper #1 dueSeptember 21st:
Read Chapters 4-6, pp. 68-157. in A Border Passage.September 26th:
Read Chapters 7-9, pp. 158-205, in A Border Passage.September 28th:
Read Chapters 10-12. [[/ 206-307, in A Border Passage.October 3rd: Passages to Modernity
C. A. Bayly, "Passages from the Old Regimes to Modernity," chapter 2, pp. 49-85 in The Birth of the Modern World on ERES.
Paper #2 dueOctober 5th: Converging Revolutions
C. A. Bayly, "Converging Revolutions," chapter 3, pp. 86-120 in The Birth of the Modern World on ERES. Optional Reading:
C. A. Bayly, "Between World Revolutions, c. 1815-1865," chapter 4, pp. 125-169 in The Birth of the Modern World.October 10th: Industrialization
C. A. Bayly, "Industrialization and the New City," chapter 5, pp. 170-198 in The Birth of the Modern World on ERES.October 12th: Nation, Empire and Ethnicity
C. A. Bayly, "Nation, Empire, and Ethnicity," chaper 6, pp. 199-243 in The Birth of the Modern World on ERES.October 17th: Sweetness and Power
Read Introduction and pages 3-73 in Sweetness and Power
Paper #3 DueOctober 19th:
Read pages 74-150 in Sweetness and Power.October 24th:
Read pages 151-214 in Sweetness and Power.October 26th: Resurrecting Empire
Read pages ix-xiv and 1-36, 74-117, 152-175 in Resurrecting Empire on ERES.October 31st: Constructing Difference, Patriarchy and Domination; Poverty
Gerda Lerner, "The Patriarchal Family," pp. 253-255 in Beyond Borders.
World Health Organiztion, 'Violence Against Women," pp. 278-287 in Beyond Borders.
Lucinda Marshall, "The Connection Between Militarism and Violence Against Women," pp. 307-310 in Beyond Borders.
Jan Knippers Black, "Inequality in the Global Village," pp. 323-330 in Beyond Borders.
Michael Yates, "Poverty and Inequality in the Global Economy," pp. 330-339 in Beyond Borders.
World Health Organization, "The Current State of Global Health,"pp. 356-363 in Beyond Borders.
Jeffrey D. Sachs, 'Macroeconomics of Health: No Health Available at $7.50 per Person Per Year,: pp. 364-367 in Beyond Borders.
International Labor Organization, "Facts onChild Labor," pp. 396-397 in Beyond Borders.
Un Bulletin on the Eradication of Poverty, "World Poverty and Hunger Fact Sheet,: pp. 398-399 in Beyond Borders.
Optional reading:
Sima Wali, Elizabeth Gould, and Paul Fitzgerald, "the Impact of Political Conflict on Women: The Case of Afghanistan,: pp. 311-316 in Beyond Borders.
Angus Deaton, "Is World Poverty Falling?" pp. 240-345 in Beyond Borders.
The International Forum on Globaliztion, " A Critical Look at Measurements of Economic Progress," pp. 346-355 in Beyond Borders.
Paul Farmer, "Suffering and Structural Violence," pp. 368-393 in Beyond Borders.
Paper #4 dueNovember 2nd: Globalization and Its Discontents
Joseph Stiglitz, "Globalization and Its Discontents: The Promise of Global Institutions," pp. 419-431 in Beyond Borders.
John A. Powell and S.P. Udayakumar, "Race, Poverty, and Globalization,"pp. 432-437 in Beyond Borders.
Jan Jindy Pettman, "On the Backs of Women and Children," pp. 437-440 in Beyond Borders.
Cynthia Enloe, "The Globetrotting Sneaker," pp. 380-383 in Women's Voices, Feminist Visions on ERES.
William K. Tabb, "Privatization and Urban Issues: A Global Perspective," pp. 440-445 in Beyond Borders.
David Moberg, "Plunder and Profit,"pp. 446-449 in Beyond Borders.
Michael Parenti, "The WTO and Globalization," pp. 449-452 in Beyond Borders.
Michael Chossudovsky, "The Globalization of Poverty,"pp. 453-461 in Beyond Borders.
Arundhati Roy, "Shall We Leave It to the Experts? pp. 461-467 in Beyond Borders.November 7th: Transnational Institutions and the Global Economy
Corey Mattson, Marrie Ayer, and Daniela Mijal Gerson, "The Maquila in Guatemala: Facts and Trends," pp. 481-487 in Beyond Borders.
Global Exchange, "Plan Puebla Panama," pp. 488-490 in Beyond Borders
JoAnn Wypijewski, "GE Goes South," pp. 490-492 in Beyond Borders.
Joshua Frank, "Ground Down in the Fields: Coffee and State Authority in Columbia," pp. 493-497 in Beyond Borders.
Juan Houghton and Beverly Bel, "Latin American Indigenous Movements in the Context of Globalization," pp. 498-504 in Beyond Borders.
Mandisi Majavu, "Debt, Reforms, and Social Services in Africa," pp. 507-509 in Beyond Borders.
Meredith Throop, "The Impact of Water Privatization on South African Women" pp. 509-514 in Beyond Borders.
Ifeoma Opara, "Water Privatization Charts," pp. 515-516 in Beyond Borders
The Basel Action Network, "Exporting Harm: The High-Tech Trashing of Asia," pp. 540-541 in Beyond Borders.
L. Rajiva, "The Gobalized Village," pp. 542-544 in Beyond Borders.
Amadou Toumani Toure and Blaise Compaore, "Your Farm Subsidies Are Strangling Us," pp. 545-546 Beyond Borders.
Kevin A. Hassett and Robert Shapiro, "How Europe Sows Misery in Africa," pp. 547-550 in Beyond Borders. Optional reading:
Vandana Shiva, "The Crisis of Potato Growers in U.P.," pp. 554-558 in Beyond Borders.
Brian Toker, "The World Bank and The 'Next Green Revolution:' devastating IMF/World Bank Sponsored Environmental Projects in the Name of Progress,"pp. 561-569 in Beyond Borders.November 9th: Toward a More Equitable Future: Grassroots Movements for Social Change
Claudio Albertini, "Small is Beautiful Airport, McDonalds's, and Hypermarkets in Mexico," pp. 577-580 in Beyond Borders.
Vandana Shiva, "Building Water Democracy: People's Victory Against Coca-Cola in Plachimada," pp. 580-583 in Beyond Borders.
New Pittsburgh Courier, "Nigerian Women Win Out Against Oil Giants," pp. 584-585 in Beyond Borders.
Liza Feathersone, "The New Student Movement," pp. 585-590 in Beyond Borders.
Eugenio Gonzales and Liz Stanton, "Filipino Dump Activists Turn Waste into Wealth," pp. 591-594 in Beyond Borders.November 14th: Crossing Borders and Weaving a Holistic Approach
Read pages 209-255 in Tangled Routes on ERES
Paper #5 dueNovember 16th:
Class presentation on Poverty, Health and HIV/AIDSNovember 18-26: Midterm BreakNovember 28th:
Class presentation on War and ConflictNovember 30th:
Class presentation on MigrationDecember 5th:
Class presentation on Environmental sustainabilityDecember 7th:
General OverviewDecember 12th: Final exam due in my office at

Gary L. Baker
Fellows 419, X6213 direct, x6369 (program assistant)
email: bakerg@denison.edu

INTL 100
Introduction to International Studies 100.01
The Making of the Modern World
Spring 2007

International Studies is the interdisciplinary exploration of global processes that shape broad international trends as well as the specific historically and culturally embedded lives of people throughout the world. As a field International Studies is relatively new, combining knowledge and methods from the social sciences, the humanities and the fine arts. The field emerged in the late 1970s partly in response to a number of global developments involving the increased mobility of people associated with political turmoil; labor and tourism; shifting forms of production and finance; the HIV/AIDS pandemic; human rights regimes; nuclear proliferation; expansion of consumer markets and commoditization; and developments in technology and global media, among others. Understanding these issues and addressing related problems, requires scholars to transcend limitations imposed by disciplinary boundaries.

There is a wide range of subjects that fall within the purview of inquiry International Studies from the meanings and financial implications of cultural flows associated with the global proliferation of McDonald's or Bollywood movies, to the changing composition of the global manufacturing workforce, to the shifting balance of power between states and transnational organizations. This list of merely suggestive. In each of these cases global processes associated with the moblity of people, capital, ideas and power transcend the boundaries of states and cultural groups; and issues of politics, economics and culture intersect. The exploration of global processes is both historical and contemporary. These characteristics distinquish International Studies from other fields. This course will introduce you to some of the basic concepts and analytical skills associated with International Studies. It is the first core course in the Internationl Studies major and it fulfills the "Interdisciplinary and World Issues." requirement of the General Education Program. Whether or not you decide to pursue an International Studies major, this course will help you develop a more sophisticated understanding of how the world works and your place in it.

Required Readings - Books
Books - The following books are available for purchase from the University bookstore:
Amitav Ghosh, In an Antique Land
Sidney Mintz, Sweetness and Power
Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities
Pietra Rivoli, The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy
Daphne Berdahl, Where the World Ended

Articles- a series of articles from a wide variety of publications is available on Electronic Reserves [ERES] and accessible through the library's webpage. The password for our class is "hegemony" (case sensitive).

PLEASE BRING THE ASSIGNED MATERIAL TO CLASS EACH DAY. - This will allow us to consult the text during class.

Newspapers and Periodicals: We will be talking about current events and how they relate to issues we are discussing in the course on a regular basis. Therefore, it is imperative that you seek out good sources of information on global issues. There are many ways to access this information. The New York Times is available. You can also sign up for free daily email from The New York Times. International Studies scholars, however, are sensitive to issues of perspective and biases in news reporting and make every effort to check out multiple sources. The following websites may be helpful: http://allafrica.com
http//mg.co.za[Daily Mail & Guardian from S. Africa]
http://www.nytimes.com
http://washingtonpost.com
http:mews.bbc.co.uk
http:aljazeer.net
http:timesofindia.indiatimes.com
http:www.lemonde.fr
http:www.lexpress.fr
http://www.utm.edu/departments/french/french/ (choose link for press, radio and television)
http://www.speigel.de
http://www.zeit.de
http://www.lanic.utexas.edu (choose the link "Media and Communication")
This list is, of course, not exhaustive. Google also provides an international news indexing service at http://news.google.com/and clickk on "World". Note that many newspapers in other countries have English language versions. In addition, I would recommend that you peruse the following periodicals: Foreign Policy, The Atlantic Monthly, The Economist, The Nation, The New York Review of Books. All are available in our library.Required Films:
I like to use films in this course because not only do they give us the opportunity to think about how global processes are experienced by real people in particular historical, geographical and cultural contexts. They also convey in visual terms key concept and relationships that we will be reading about. Most films exceed the time allotted for our regular class, so films are scheduled for evenings during the semester. These films will be placed on reserve for individual or small group viewing, otherwise you should plan to attend class showings. Two of the films will be shown at 7:00pm in our classroom. Specific dates are noted in the coruse schedule.
Taxi to Timbuktu (February 1)
Mardi Gras Made In China (March 29)

Course Requirements:
Participation - Regular and meaningful participation is an important part of this course. Students are expected to be active participants in this course. This means, at minimum that you will attend the course regularly, complete all reading and writing assignments in a timely fashion and that you will offer valuable contributions to our class discussions on a regular basis. My assessment of participation also involves taking into account the level of student engagement. Does a student demonstrate a genuine interest in the topics and conceptual issues raised by the Course? Does a student go beyond the syllabus to introduce new information (from regular reading of news periodicals and other courses or independent reading) into our discussions? Truly exemplary participation will also demonstrate these characteristics. Failure to regularly and meaningfully participate in class will negatively affect your grade. To help encourage your participation I will ask you to submit six 400-450 word responses to posted reading questions throughout the semester. Three of these responses must be completed on or before mid semester (3/5). Responses that are off mark, show no sign of familiarity with the reading, or are unreflective will receive partial credit. Reading responses will each count for 2% of your final grade. The other 6% break down accordingly, participated rearely 1%, sometimes 2%, frequently 4% or always 6%. Hourly and Final Exams- The hourly exams will primarily involve short-answer questions. Questions for the final will be distributed in advance. The final exam will be distributed in advance. The final exam will be a take-home exam. (Hourly exams are worth 20% each while the final is worth 12%) Essay - Within the first few weeks of the course you will be asked to write an essay in response to questions about the readings. (The essay counts for 15% of your final grade.) Research Project-Details of this assignment will be distributed a few weeks into the course. (This project counts for 15% of your final grade.)

Course Policies:Plagiarism-I expect all students to conduct research and writing honestly and to appropriate reference for all sources consulted. Those of us who engage in research and writing take plagiarism very seriously. According to our student handbook, plagiarism is defined as follows: "In any academic assignment, plagiarism involves the use of data, ideas, or works of others without proper use of established or designated forms of acknowledgement, such as footnotes, quotations, bibliographies, etc. Neither ignorance nor carelessness is an acceptable defense in cases of plagiarism." All suspected instances of plagiarism will be referred to the Associate Provost's office for investigation and ajudication. Just as the expanding Internet provides many opportunities for plagiarism, it also provides many tools for professors to use to check for plagiarsim, and I do check. Class Attendance and Tardiness - You are expected to attend class regularly and faithfully. If you have a bona fide and documented excuse for missing class (illness, family emergency, scheduled athletic competition) please inform me in advance of the class that you will miss. More than two absences during the semester will seriously affect your final grade. Thereafter I will take 1% off your grade for every absence. If you must miss class, please contact a classmate to review what you missed. While I am happy to answer questions and clarify material, I do not consider it my obligation to make up missed classes by individual students. Also, do not come to class late. Late arrivals are not only disruptive; they also convey a lack of respect for the course. Generally, I will shut the classroom door about five minutes after class begins. Please do not enter the class if the door is shut.

Late Work-I do not accept late work because it shows disrespect to your classmates. It is also unfair for you to receive extra time when your fellow students complete assignments on time, sometimes under duress. All assignments will be handed out well in advance of the due date and all savvy scholars know that one should never postpone working on assignments until the last minute. All assignments must be submitted in class on the day they are due. No electronically submitted assignments will be accepted. When an assignment is due hand in what you have - for that I can give partial credit. Accommodation for Students with Disabilities- Any student who feels he or she may need an accomodation based on the impact of a disability should contact me privately as soon as possible to discuss his or her specific needs. I rely on the Academic Support and Enrichment Center in 104 Doane to verify the need for reasonable accommodations based on documentation on file in their office.

In general, if you have questions, concerns or problems related to the course, it is always better to ask in advance than to allow the issue to grow over time.

Fall 2007                                                     Taku Suzuki
Tues/Thurs 8:30-9:50AM                            International Studies Program
Fellows 203                                                 Office: Fellows 420, x-6528
                                                   Office Hours: Mon/Wed 2-3PM, Tues/Thurs 3-4PM     
                                                   E-mail: suzukit@denison.edu


International Studies 100
The Making of the Modern World

Course description:
International Studies is the interdisciplinary exploration of global processes that shape broad international trends as well as the specific historically and culturally embedded lives of people throughout the world.  As an academic field International Studies is relatively new, Combining knowledge and methods from the social sciences, the humanities, and the fine arts. The field emerged partly in response to a number of global developments involving the increased flows of people, information, and ideas in the second half of the twentieth century: political turmoil, labor migration; tourism, shifting forms of production and finance, cross-regional pandemic; human rights violation and advocacy; nuclear proliferation; expansion of consumer markets; developments in telecommunication technology and mass media; and global environmental problems. Understanding these realities and addressing related problems require scholars to transcend limitations imposed by traditional disciplinary boundaries.
There is a wide range of subjects that fall within the purview of inquiry in International Studies. In each of global processes associated with the mobility of people, capital, ideas and power transcend the boundaries of states and cultural groups; and issues of politics, economics, and culture intersect. The exploration of global processes is both historical and contemporary, requiring us to resort to sociological and historical approaches. These characteristics distinguish International Studies from other fields.  
This course introduces you to some of the basic concepts and analytical skills associated with International Studies.  It is the first core course in the International Studies major and it fulfills the “Interdisciplinary and World Issues” requirement of the General Education Program.  Whether or not you decide to pursue an International Studies major, this course will help you develop a more sophisticated understanding of how the world works and your place in it.

Course objectives:
At the end of this course, I want students to be able to:
1.    Identify economic, political, and socio-cultural causes of a particular local event or circumstance in today’s world beyond its immediate local and historical context, and place it in the long history of global interconnections.
2.    Predict economic, political, and socio-cultural outcomes of a particular local incident or situation within and beyond its immediate local context, in light of the long history of global interconnections.
3.    Form an informed opinion about a controversial political, economic, and socio-cultural situation or decision in the world today that is not discussed in class.

Books to purchase:

• Wolf, Eric R. 1997. Europe and the People Without History. U of California P.

• Anderson, Benedict 2006 [1991]. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. Verso.

• Harvey, David 2005. A Brief History of Neoliberalism. Oxford UP.

• Parreñas, Rhacel Salazar 2001. Servants of Globalization: Women, Migration, and Domestic Work. Stanford UP.

• Condry, Ian 2006. Hip-Hop Japan: Rap and the Paths of Globalization. Duke UP.

All books are available at the Denison University bookstore.

Articles from a wide variety of publications are available on Electronic Reserves (eRes) and electronic journals accessible through the library homepage.  

PLEASE BRING THE ASSIGNED MATERIAL TO CLASS EACH DAY: This will allow us to consult the text during class.

Newspapers and periodicals:  
We will be talking about current events and how they relate to issues we are discussing in the course on a regular basis.  Therefore, it is imperative that you seek out good sources of information on global issues.  There are many ways to access this information.  The New York Times is available locally. You can also sign up for free daily email from The New York Times.  International Studies scholars, however, are sensitive to issues of perspective and biases in news reporting and make every effort to check out multiple sources.  The following websites may be helpful:

    http://allafrica.com
    http://mg.co.za (Daily Mail & Guardian from S. Africa)
    http://www.nytimes.com (The New York Times)
    http://washingtonpost.com (The Washington Post)
http://english.people.com.cn/ (The People’s Daily, a Chinese government-run newspaper [English])    
http://news.bbc.co.uk (British Broadcasting Company)
    http://english.aljazeera.net/English  (Al Jazeera, a UAE cable news station [English])
    http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com (The Times of India)
    http://www.lemonde.fr (Le Monde, French national newspaper [French])
    http://www.japantimes.co.jp/ (The Japan Times [English])
    http://www.spiegel.de/international/  (Del Spiegel, a German weekly magazine [English])
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/ (The Globe and Mail, a Canadian national newspaper [English])
http://www.nationmultimedia.com/ (The Nation, a Thai national newspaper [English])


This list is, of course, not exhaustive.  Google also provides an international news indexing service at http//news.google.com/ and click on “World.” Note that many newspapers in other countries have English language versions.

In addition, I would recommend that you peruse the following periodicals:  Foreign Policy, The Atlantic Monthly, The Economist, The Nation, The New York Review of Books.  All are available in our library.


Course requirements:
1.    Attendance and participation: 20%
Regular and meaningful participation is an important part of this course.  Students are expected to be active participants in this course.  This means, at minimum that you will attend the course regularly, complete all reading and writing assignments in on time and that you will offer valuable contributions to our class discussions on a regular basis.  My assessment of participation also takes into account the level of student engagement.  Does a student demonstrate a genuine interest in the topics and conceptual issues raised by the course?  Does a student go beyond the syllabus to introduce new information (from regular reading of news periodicals, other courses, or independent reading) into our discussions?  Failure to regularly and meaningfully participate in class will negatively affect your grade.  More than two unexcused absences will result in downgrade in attendance.

2.    Ad-hoc short writing assignments (in-class and discussion board): 10%
There are approximately nine short (usually one paragraph-long) writing assignments presented during class (Midterm course evaluation, conducted during 10/18 class, will be counted as one of the assignments.). These are responses to class discussion, film, reading assignment, and in-class exercise. You will submit your assignments before or upon the subsequent meeting in a form of either discussion board-posting, completed worksheet, or typed paper before or upon the subsequent meeting in a form of either discussion board-posting, completed worksheet, or typed paper. Each assignment will be evaluated by three criteria: 1. It has been submitted in time; 2. It indicates that you have thoroughly competed the reading, film-viewing, or in-class writing assignment; 3. Your assignment shows that you have gone beyond merely answering the question or stating personal opinion by integrating multiple issues discussed in class. If you have satisfied 1 and 2, you will receive full (100%) credit; if you have satisfied all three, you will receive 120% credit; if you have failed to satisfy 1 or 2, you will receive 80% of full credit; if you have failed to satisfy 1 and 2, you will receive 50% of full credit.   

3.    Three short essays: 30% (10% X 3)
You will be required to submit three 3-4 page (double-spaced) essays on assigned topics. You will write these essays not as summaries of the readings and your responses to them, but instead as critical, insightful, and compelling arguments that synthesize issues raised by the readings, lectures, and class discussions. For the first two assignments (in addition to the group research project paper, see below), three students form a group and write about the same region or country to answer the assigned questions. Although the group members could consult with each other, each must write his/her own individual paper. Also for the first two assignments, ALL students are required to visit Writing Center (see below) to receive assistance for writing and editing your papers. Failing to do so before submitting your papers will result in downgrading of your assignments (I will be automatically notified by the center after you visited it). Your citation and reference listing must follow the Chicago Style (See the library’s link: http://library.osu.edu/sites/guides/chicagogd.php).
Each paper will count for 10% of your course grade. Unexcused late papers will be penalized one-half grade (e.g., an A- becomes B+) for each day late.

4.    Group research project: 15%
Three students form a group, and each, as a team, must conduct a research on political, economic, socio-cultural causes and effects of one particular incident or development in one particular region or country.  In the beginning of November, each group, which will have already worked together for the short papers #1 and #2, will be assigned with a particular incident or situation (in a form of newspaper or magazine article) in today’s world.  Each group will collectively research the case in order to identify its major causal factors and potential outcomes within and beyond the region. Each member of the group, by applying some of the perspectives we have read about and discussed in class, must identify causes and effects in (1) politics; (2) economy; or (3) socio-cultural conditions. This assignment has two components:
a.    Poster presentation: 5%
The groups will present their research projects in the form of poster session in the last two classes of the course (12/4 & 6). The poster presentation, which lasts about fifteen minutes, must concisely summarize the assigned case, the group’s findings, and conclusions (10 minutes), and pose at least one relevant question to the rest of the class for further discussion on the subject (5 minutes). To prepare for the presentation, each group will collectively create a poster, in front of which the group will present. Each group will submit the poster (its PowerPoint template printout) as the evidence of their collective work. The presentation and discussion-leading will be graded with letters.
b.    Research paper: 10%
Each member of the group must write his/her own individual paper, drawn from the materials the group collectively gathered. The paper needs to be 6-7 page-long, double-spaced, no larger than 12pts font, with no larger than 1.25 inch margins. It must also be proofread, as the quality of writing (grammar, spelling, etc.) will be taken into consideration for grading. The paper will be graded with letters.

5.    Midterm and Final Exams: 25% (10%: Midterm; 15%: Final)
The midterm exam will primarily involve short-answer (identification) questions about the readings and one essay question.  The final exam will be a take-home exam, in a form of essay questions.  The final exam questions will be distributed in the last class meeting (12/6). The exams will be graded with points. If you miss a midterm exam due to illness or a family emergency, you must take a make-up midterm exam. Make-up exams must be taken no later than two days after the original exam date. Delayed final take-home exam will be downgraded each passing day after the due date by ten percentile of the exam grade.


Grading:
Class attendance and participation:                 20%
Ad-hoc writing assignment:                           10%
Three short papers:                                         30% (10X3)
Research paper:
Poster presentation/discussion-leading:          5%
Final individual paper:                                  10%
Midterm exam:                                             10%
Final exam:                                                  15%
                                                                   100%

Percentage        Letter Grade
94-                     A
90-93.99            A-
87-89.99            B+
84-86.99            B
80-83.99            B-
77-79.99            C+
74-76.99            C
70-73.99            C-
67-69.99            D+
64-66.99            D
60-63.99            D-
-59.99                F


Course policies:
1.    Plagiarism and Academic Integrity:
The students and faculty of Denison University and the International Studies Program are committed to academic integrity and will not tolerate any violation of this principle.  Academic honesty, the cornerstone of teaching and learning, lays the foundation for lifelong integrity. Academic dishonesty is, in most cases, intellectual theft.  It includes, but is not limited to, providing or receiving assistance in a manner not authorized by the instructor in the creation of work to be submitted for evaluation.  This standard applies to all work ranging from daily homework assignments to major exams.  Students must clearly cite any sources consulted—not only for quoted phrases but also for ideas and information that are not common knowledge.  Neither ignorance nor carelessness is an acceptable defense in cases of plagiarism.  It is the student’s responsibility to follow the appropriate format for citations. As is indicated in Denison’s Student Handbook, available through mydenison.edu , instructors must refer every act of academic dishonesty to the Associate Provost, and violations may result in failure in the course, suspension, or expulsion. (For further information, see http://www.denison.edu/student-affairs/handbook/ar03s02s01.html)

2.    Class Attendance and Tardiness:
You are expected to attend class regularly and faithfully.  If you have a bona fide and documented excuse for missing class (illness, family emergency, scheduled athletic competition) please inform me in advance of the class that you will miss.  More than two absences during the semester will count for 1% taken from your final grade.  Thereafter I will take 1% off your grade for every absence.  If you must miss class, please contact a classmate to review what you missed.  While I am happy to answer questions and clarify material, I do not consider it my obligation to make up missed classes for individual students.  Also, do not come to class late.  Late arrivals are not only disruptive; they also convey a lack of respect for the course.  Tardiness will result in downgrading your attendance.

3.    Late Work:
I do not accept late work because it shows disrespect to your classmates.  It is also unfair for you to receive extra time when your fellow students complete assignments on time, sometimes under duress.  All assignments will be handed out well in advance of the due date and all savvy scholars know that one should never postpone assignments until the last minute. Unless instructed otherwise, all assignments must be submitted electronically to the Digital Drop Box of the course blackboard before the beginning of the class on the due date.  When an assignment is due hand in what you have – partial work may receive partial credit.

4.    Writing Center:
The Center is a free resource available to all Denison students.  Student writing consultants from many majors help writers one-on-one in all phases of the writing process, from deciphering the assignment, to discussing ideas, to developing an argument, to finalizing a draft.  Because proofreading is a last step in that process, writers should leave plenty of time for getting their ideas right before expecting proofreading help.  Consultants also can help writers with personal documents, like job and internship applications.  The Center is located on the fourth floor of Barney-Davis Hall; satellite locations are on the third floor of the Library (the Entry level) and the first floor of Fellows near the Computer Lab.  Appointments between 4 p.m. and 9 p.m., Sunday through Thursday, can be made in the Barney location by phoning 587-JOT1. The satellite locations are drop-in; check the website at http://www.denison.edu/writingctr/ for those hours.

5.    Accommodation for Students with Disabilities:
Any student who feels he or she may need an accommodation based on the impact of a disability should contact me privately as soon as possible to discuss his or her specific needs. I rely on the Academic Support & Enrichment Center in 102 Doane to verify the need for reasonable accommodations based on documentation on file in that office.


Class schedule:
All readings with asterisk [*] are available on e-Res or via the library’s on-line journal link (Use CONSORT journal title search and follow the link).

1. Introduction / Theorizing globalization
(8/28: Tu) Course overview / introduction

(8/30: Th) “Old” vs. “new” globalizations
*(eRes) Abu-Lughod, J. 1989. “Studying a System in Formation” (Excerpt) in Before European Hegemony: The World System A.D. 1250-1350. Oxford University Press. 
*(eRes) Amin, S. 1993. “The Ancient World-Systems Versus the Modern Capitalist World-System” in The World System: Five Hundred Years or Five Thousand? Routledge.

(9/4: Tu) Clash of civilizations or global ecumene?
*(Online journal) Huntington, S. 1993. “The Clash of Civilizations?” Foreign Affairs 72(3): 22-49.
*(eRes) Barber, B. 1995. “Introduction” in Jihad vs. McWorld. Times Books.
*(eRes) Hannerz, U. 2006 (1992). “The Global Ecumene” (excerpt) in The Globalization Reader (2nd Ed.). Blackwell.

(9/6: Th) Marxist approach to globalization
Wolf, “1: Introduction” (Pp. 1-7, 19-23), “3: Modes of Production”

2. European expansion and “people without history” in the 15th-19th centuries
(9/11: Tu) Prelude to modern globalization
Wolf, “2: The World in 1400” (Pp. 24-34, then a part on an assigned region), “4: Europe, Prelude to Expansion” (Pp. 101-108, then a part on an assigned region)

(9/13: Th) European expansion / Mini group presentations on the European encounters
Wolf, Pp. 129-130, and one chapter on assigned region from Chapters 5-8
Film: First Contact

(9/18: Tu) Rise of global capitalism
    Wolf, Pp. 265-266, “9: Industrial Revolution” and “11: The Movement of Commodities”

(9/20: Th) Labor in global capitalism
    Wolf, “12: The New Laborers” and “Afterword”

3. Foundation of nation-states in the 19th century
(9/25: Tu) Roots of modern nation-states
Anderson, “1: Introduction” and “2: Cultural Roots”
*(eRes) Smith, A. 1991. “The Ethnic Basis of National Identity” (Excerpt) in National Identity. University of Nevada Press.
*** Short paper #1: “Encountering the West” due (Must visit the Writing Center in advance for assistance) ***

(9/27: Th) Print capitalism and invention of nation-states
Anderson, “3: Origin of national Consciousness” and “5: Old Languages, New Models”

(10/2: Tu) Colonialism and nationalism
    Anderson, “6: Official Nationalism and Imperialism,” “7: The Last Wave,” and “8: Patriotism and Racism”

(10/4: Th) “Technologies” of nationalism
Anderson, “10: Census, Map, Museum” and “11: Memory and Forgetting”

4. Cold War and neoliberal globalization in the 20th-21st centuries
(10/9: Tu) The Great Wars and the Cold War
*(eRes) Hobsbaum, E. 1994. “Cold War” and “The Golden Years” in The Age of Extremes: A History of the World, 1914-1991. Pantheon.
*(eRes) Wallerstein, I. 1991. “1968, Revolution in the World System” in Geopolitics and Geoculture: Essays on the Changing World-System. Cambridge University Press.
Film clip from: Dr. Strangelove, or, How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb

(10/11: Th) Midterm Exam

(10/16: Tu) Rise of neoliberal ideology / Library research orientation by Ann Watson
Harvey, “1: Freedom is Just Another Word” and “2: The Construction of Consent”

(10/18: Th) States and markets / Midterm course evaluation
Harvey, “3: The Neoliberal State”
*(eRes) Rivoli, P. 2005. “Back at the Reinsch Farm: All God’s Dangers ain’t the Subsidies” in The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy: An Economist Examines the Markets, Power, and Politics of World Trade. Wiley.

(10/23: Tu) Unbalanced neoliberalization
Harvey, “4: Uneven Geographical Developments” and “5: Neoliberalism with ‘Chinese Characteristics’”
*(Online journal) Stahler-Sholk, R. 2007. “Resisting Neoliberal Homogenization: The Zapatista Autonomy Movement.” Latin American Perspectives 34(2): 48-63.
Film clip from: Zapatista

(10/24: Wed) Film screening Black Gold: Wake Up and Smell the Coffee (Time & location TBA)

(10/25: Th) Present and future of neoliberal globalization: Discussion on Black Gold with Professor James Pletcher (Political Science / International Studies)
    Harvey, “6: Neoliberalism on Trial” and “7: Freedom’s Prospect”
*(Online journal) Sassen, S. “Local Actors in Global Politics.” Current Sociology 52(4): 649-670.

5. Experiencing globalization I: Transnational families
(10/30: Tu) Global dislocation
Parreñas, “Introduction” (Pp. 1-15), “1: The Dislocations of Migrant Filipina Domestic Workers,” and “2: The Philippines and the Outflow of Labor”
*** Short paper #2: “A case study on neoliberalization” due (Must visit the Writing Center in advance for assistance) ***

(11/1: Th) Transnational families
Parreñas, “4: The Transnational Family: A Postindustrial Structure with Preindustrial Values” and “5: Intergenerational and Gender Relations in Transnational Families”
Film: Chain of Love: Part I

(11/6: Tu) Social class and transmigration
Parreñas, “6: Contradictory Class Mobility: The Politics of Domestic Work in Globalization”
*(Online journal) Lan, P. 2003. “‘They have more money but I speak better English!’: Transnational Encounters between Filipina domestics and Taiwanese Employers.” Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power 10(2): 133-161.
Film: Chain of Love: Part II

(11/8: Th) Global yet “partial” citizenship
Parreñas, “7: The Dislocation of Nonbelonging: Domestic Workers in the Filipino Migrant Communities of Rome and Los Angeles” and “Conclusion: Different Settings, Parallel Lives”

6. Experiencing globalization II: Global popular culture
(11/13: Tu) Cultural globalization: Homogenization or localization?
Condry, “Introduction: Hip-Hop, Japan, and Cultural Globalization,” 1: Yellow B-Boys, Black Culture, and the Elvis Effect”

(11/15: Th) Local contexts of global popular culture
Condry, “2; Battling Hip-Hop Samurai (Pp. 49-51, 61-86)” and “3: Genba Globalization and Locations of Power” 
*** Short paper #3: “Contradictions of transnationality” due (Not required to visit the Writing Center, though advised) ***

Thanksgiving Break!!

(11/27: Tu) Consuming and translating globalization / Poster presentation guidelines
Condry, “4; Rap fans and Consumer Culture,” “5: Rhyming in Japanese,” and “Conclusion: Lessons of Hip-Hop Globalization”

(11/29: Th) Preparation for the research poster presentations (Meet at Fellows 101 computer lab) (Professor Suzuki will not be in class, due to his participation in the Annual Meeting for American Anthropological Association at Washington D.C.)
*** Complete the PowerPoint template of the poster and bring it to the Copy Center (Doane Rm. 3) ***

7. Research project presentations
(12/4: Tu) Research project poster presentations/discussions I

(12/6: Th) Course evaluation (Meet at Fellows 101 computer lab) / Research project poster presentations/ discussions II

(12/7: Fri)
*** Research project paper due (5P.M.) ***

(12/15: Sa 11A.M.) Take home final exam due

Spring 2008                                                Taku Suzuki
Tues/Thurs 2:30-3:50PM                            International Studies Program
Fellows 203                                                Office: Fellows 420, x-6528
Office Hours: Mon-Thurs 4:30-5:30PM                    E-mail: suzukit@denison.edu


International Studies 100-02
The Making of the Modern World

Course description:
International Studies is the interdisciplinary exploration of global processes that shape broad international trends as well as the specific historically and culturally embedded lives of people throughout the world.  As an academic field International Studies is relatively new, Combining knowledge and methods from the social sciences, the humanities, and the fine arts. The field emerged partly in response to a number of global developments involving the increased flows of people, information, and ideas in the second half of the twentieth century: political turmoil, labor migration; tourism, shifting forms of production and finance, cross-regional pandemic; human rights violation and advocacy; nuclear proliferation; expansion of consumer markets; developments in telecommunication technology and mass media; and global environmental problems. Understanding these realities and addressing related problems require scholars to transcend limitations imposed by traditional disciplinary boundaries.
There is a wide range of subjects that fall within the purview of inquiry in International Studies. In each of global processes associated with the mobility of people, capital, ideas and power transcend the boundaries of states and cultural groups; and issues of politics, economics, and culture intersect. The exploration of global processes is both historical and contemporary, requiring us to resort to sociological and historical approaches. These characteristics distinguish International Studies from other fields.  
This course introduces you to some of the basic concepts and analytical skills associated with International Studies.  It is the first core course in the International Studies major and it fulfills the “Interdisciplinary and World Issues” requirement of the General Education Program.  Whether or not you decide to pursue an International Studies major, this course will help you develop a more sophisticated understanding of how the world works and your place in it.

Course objectives:
At the end of this course, I want students to be able to:
1.    Identify economic, political, and socio-cultural causes of a particular local event or circumstance in today’s world beyond its immediate local context, and locate it within the long history of global interconnections.
2.    Predict economic, political, and socio-cultural outcomes of a particular local incident or situation within and beyond its immediate local context, in light of the long history of global interconnections.
3.    Form an informed opinion about a controversial political, economic, and socio-cultural situation or decision in the world today that is not discussed in class.

Books to purchase:

• Mintz, Sydney W. 1985. Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History. Penguin Books.

• Anderson, Benedict 2006 [1991]. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. Verso.

• Harvey, David 2005. A Brief History of Neoliberalism. Oxford UP.

• Parreñas, Rhacel Salazar 2001. Servants of Globalization: Women, Migration, and Domestic Work. Stanford UP.

• Mitchell, Tony 2001. Global Noise: Rap and Hip-Hop Outside the USA. Wesleyan UP.

All books are available at the Denison University bookstore.

Articles from a wide variety of publications are available on Electronic Reserves (eRes) and electronic journals accessible through the library homepage.  

PLEASE BRING THE ASSIGNED MATERIAL TO CLASS EACH DAY: This will allow us to consult the text during class.

Newspapers and periodicals:  
We will be talking about current events and how they relate to issues we are discussing in the course on a regular basis.  Therefore, it is imperative that you seek out good sources of information on global issues.  There are many ways to access this information.  The New York Times is available locally. You can also sign up for free daily email from The New York Times.  International Studies scholars, however, are sensitive to issues of perspective and biases in news reporting and make every effort to check out multiple sources.  The following websites may be helpful:

    http://allafrica.com (All Africa Global Media)
    http://mg.co.za (Daily Mail & Guardian from S. Africa)
    http://www.nytimes.com (The New York Times)
    http://washingtonpost.com (The Washington Post)
http://english.people.com.cn/ (The People’s Daily, a Chinese government-run newspaper [English])    
http://news.bbc.co.uk (British Broadcasting Company)
    http://english.aljazeera.net/English  (Al Jazeera, a UAE cable news station [English])
    http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com (The Times of India)
    http://www.lemonde.fr (Le Monde, French national newspaper [French])
    http://www.japantimes.co.jp/ (The Japan Times [English])
    http://www.spiegel.de/international/  (Del Spiegel, a German weekly magazine [English])
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/ (The Globe and Mail, a Canadian national newspaper [English])
http://www.nationmultimedia.com/ (The Nation, a Thai national newspaper [English])


This list is, of course, not exhaustive.  Google also provides an international news indexing service at http//news.google.com/ and click on “World.” Note that many newspapers in other countries have English language versions.

In addition, I would recommend that you peruse the following periodicals:  Foreign Policy, The Atlantic Monthly, The Economist, The Nation, The New York Review of Books.  All are available in our library.


Course requirements:
1.    Attendance and participation: 10%
Regular and meaningful participation is an important part of this course.  Students are expected to be active participants in this course.  This means, at minimum that you will attend the course regularly, complete all reading and writing assignments in on time and that you will offer valuable contributions to our class discussions on a regular basis.  My assessment of participation also takes into account the level of student engagement.  Does a student demonstrate a genuine interest in the topics and conceptual issues raised by the course?  Does a student go beyond the syllabus to introduce new information (from regular reading of news periodicals, other courses, or independent reading) into our discussions?  Failure to regularly and meaningfully participate in class will negatively affect your grade.  See the attendance policy below.

2.    Ad-hoc short writing assignments (in-class and course Blackboard site): 13%
There are approximately thirteen short (usually one paragraph-long) writing assignments presented during class (including midterm course evaluation, conducted during 3/4 class). These are responses to class discussion, film, reading assignment, in-class exercise, and quiz at the end of the class. You will submit your assignments before or upon the subsequent meeting in a form of either discussion board-posting, completed worksheet, or typed paper before or upon the subsequent meeting in a form of either discussion board-posting, completed worksheet, or typed paper. Each assignment will be evaluated by three criteria: 1. It has been submitted in time; 2. It indicates that you have thoroughly competed the reading, film-viewing, or in-class writing assignment; 3. Your assignment shows that you have gone beyond merely answering the question or stating personal opinion by integrating multiple issues discussed in class. If you have satisfied 1 and 2, you will receive full (100%) credit; if you have satisfied all three, you will receive 120% credit; if you have failed to satisfy 1 or 2, you will receive 80% of full credit; if you have failed to satisfy 1 and 2, you will receive 50% of full credit.   

3.    Global media watch presentation: 2%
From the second week of the course, we will start each class by five-minute presentations by two students present an Internet news article from a foreign (outside of the USA) newspaper from the list above. Present the reported case (an incident or situation) to the classmates by showing the website. Briefly provide the background of the news, and how it is understood by the local media (NOT from the U.S./North American perspective).  The presentation will be evaluated by the news content’s relevance, providing a brief but useful context, and clarity in the presentation itself.

4.    Three essays: 30% (10% X 3)
You will be required to submit three 3-4 page (double-spaced) essays on assigned topics. You will write these essays not as summaries of the readings and your responses to them, but instead as critical, insightful, and compelling arguments that synthesize issues raised by the readings, lectures, and class discussions. Your citation and reference listing must follow the APA format (See the library’s link: http://library.osu.edu/sites/guides/chicagogd.php). Each paper will count for 10% of your course grade. Unexcused late papers will be penalized one-half grade (e.g., an A- becomes B+) for each day late.

5.    Group research project: 20%
Three students form a group, and each, as a team, must conduct a research on political, economic, socio-cultural causes and effects of one particular incident or development in one particular region or country.  Each group will be assigned with a particular incident or situation in the regions around the world as their case-study; then the group will collectively research the case in order to identify its major causal factors and potential outcomes within and beyond the region by drawing on not only popular (media) sources but also academic (scholarly) sources.  Each member of the group, by applying some of the perspectives we have read about and discussed in class, must identify causes and effects in (1) politics; (2) economy; or (3) socio-cultural conditions. This assignment has two components:
a.    Poster presentation: 5%
The groups will present their research projects in the form of poster session in the last two classes of the course (4/22 & 24). The poster presentation, which lasts about fifteen minutes, must concisely summarize the assigned case, the group’s findings, and conclusions (10 minutes), and pose at least one relevant question to the rest of the class for further discussion on the subject (5 minutes). To prepare for the presentation, each group will collectively create a poster, in front of which the group will present. Each group will submit the poster (its PowerPoint template printout) as the evidence of their collective work. The presentation and discussion-leading will be graded with letters.
b.    Research paper: 10%
Each member of the group must write his/her own individual paper, drawn from the materials the group collectively gathered. The paper needs to be 6-7 page-long, double-spaced, no larger than 12pts font, with no larger than 1.25 inch margins. It must also be proofread, as the quality of writing (grammar, spelling, etc.) will be taken into consideration for grading. The paper will be graded with letters.

6.    Midterm and final exams: 30% (15% each)
The midterm exam will involve short-answer (identification) questions about the readings and one essay question.  The final exam will be a take-home exam, in a form of essay questions.  The final exam questions will be distributed in the last class meeting (4/26). The exams will be graded with points. If you miss a midterm exam due to illness or a family emergency, you must take a make-up midterm exam. Make-up exams must be taken no later than two days after the original exam date. Delayed final take-home exam will be downgraded each passing day after the due date by ten percentile of the exam grade.


Grading:
Class attendance and participation:                 10%
Ad-hoc writing assignment:                            13%
Global media presentation:                               2%
Three essays:                                                  30% (10X3)
Group research project:
Group poster presentation:                               5%
Final individual paper:                                    10%
Midterm exam:                                               15%
Final exam:                                                    15%
                                                                     100%

Percentage        Letter Grade
94-                     A
90-93.99            A-
87-89.99            B+
84-86.99            B
80-83.99            B-
77-79.99            C+
74-76.99            C
70-73.99            C-
67-69.99            D+
64-66.99            D
60-63.99            D-
-59.99                F


Course policies:
1.    Plagiarism and Academic Integrity:
The students and faculty of Denison University and the International Studies Program are committed to academic integrity and will not tolerate any violation of this principle.  Academic honesty, the cornerstone of teaching and learning, lays the foundation for lifelong integrity. Academic dishonesty is, in most cases, intellectual theft.  It includes, but is not limited to, providing or receiving assistance in a manner not authorized by the instructor in the creation of work to be submitted for evaluation.  This standard applies to all work ranging from daily homework assignments to major exams.  Students must clearly cite any sources consulted—not only for quoted phrases but also for ideas and information that are not common knowledge.  Neither ignorance nor carelessness is an acceptable defense in cases of plagiarism.  It is the student’s responsibility to follow the appropriate format for citations. As is indicated in Denison’s Student Handbook, available through mydenison.edu , instructors must refer every act of academic dishonesty to the Associate Provost, and violations may result in failure in the course, suspension, or expulsion. (For further information, see http://www.denison.edu/student-affairs/handbook/ar03s02s01.html)

2.    Class Attendance and Tardiness:
You are expected to attend class regularly and faithfully.  If you have a bona fide and documented excuse for missing class (illness, family emergency, scheduled athletic competition) please inform me in advance of the class that you will miss.  If you must miss class, please contact a classmate to review what you missed.  While I am happy to answer questions and clarify material, I do not consider it my obligation to make up missed classes for individual students.  Also, do not come to class late.  Late arrivals are not only disruptive; they also convey a lack of respect for the course.  Unexcused absence and tardiness will result in downgrading your attendance.

3.    Late Work:
I do not accept late work because it shows disrespect to your classmates.  It is also unfair for you to receive extra time when your fellow students complete assignments on time, sometimes under duress.  All assignments will be handed out well in advance of the due date and all savvy scholars know that one should never postpone assignments until the last minute. Unless instructed otherwise, all assignments must be submitted electronically to the Digital Drop Box of the course blackboard before the due date and time.  When an assignment is due hand in what you have – partial work may receive partial credit.

4.    Writing Center:
The Center is a free resource available to all Denison students.  Student writing consultants from many majors help writers one-on-one in all phases of the writing process, from deciphering the assignment, to discussing ideas, to developing an argument, to finalizing a draft.  Because proofreading is a last step in that process, writers should leave plenty of time for getting their ideas right before expecting proofreading help.  Consultants also can help writers with personal documents, like job and internship applications.  The Center is located on the fourth floor of Barney-Davis Hall; satellite locations are on the third floor of the Library (the Entry level) and the first floor of Fellows near the Computer Lab.  Appointments between 4 p.m. and 9 p.m., Sunday through Thursday, can be made in the Barney location by phoning 587-JOT1. The satellite locations are drop-in; check the website at http://www.denison.edu/writingctr/ for those hours.

5.    Accommodation for Students with Disabilities:
Any student who feels he or she may need an accommodation based on the impact of a disability should contact me privately as soon as possible to discuss his or her specific needs. I rely on the Academic Support & Enrichment Center in 102 Doane to verify the need for reasonable accommodations based on documentation on file in that office.


Class schedule:
All eRes and Online journal articles (with asterisk [*]) are accessible from the course Blackboard’s “Reading Materials” page. eRes page may require you password (jihad).

1. Introduction / Theorizing globalization
(1/15: Tu) Course overview / introduction

(1/17: Th) Theorizing globalization I: Clash of civilizations or global ecumene?
*(Online journal) Huntington, S. 1993. “The Clash of Civilizations?” Foreign Affairs 72(3): 22-49.
*(eRes) Hannerz, U. 2006 (1992). “The Global Ecumene” (excerpt) in The Globalization Reader (2nd Ed.). Blackwell.

(1/22: Tu) Theorizing globalization II: Clash of civilizations and global ecumene?
*(eRes) Inda, J. X, and R. Rosaldo 2008. “Tracking Global Flows” in The Anthropology of Globalization: A Reader (2nd Ed.). Blackwell.
[Optional] *(eRes) Waters, M. 1995. “2. What on earth is happening?: Precursor theories” in Globalization. Routledge.

(1/24: Th) Is globalization “old” or “new”?
*(Online journal) Wallerstein, I. 1974. “The Rise and Future Demise of the World Capitalist System: Concepts for Comparative Analysis.” (Pp.390-394; Pp.399-412) Comparative Studies in Society and History 16(4): 387-415.
*(eRes) Abu-Lughod, J. 1989. “Studying a System in Formation” (Excerpt) in Before European Hegemony: The World System A.D. 1250-1350. Oxford University Press. 

2. Globalization in the 15th-19th centuries: Thinking through commodities
(1/29: Tu)  European expansion and sugar production
Mintz, “1. Food, Sociality, and Sugar” and “2. Production” in Sweetness.

(1/31: Th) Social changes through sugar consumption
    Mintz, “3. Consumption” (assigned sections) in Sweetness.
*** Short paper #1: “Evaluating globalization theories” due ***

(2/5: Tu) Rise of industrial capitalism and sugar
    Mintz, “4. Power” in Sweetness.

(2/7: Th) Commodity capitalism and modern world-system / Global commodities mini-presenations
    Mintz, “5. Eating and Being” in Sweetness.
*(eRes) Wolf, E. 1982. “The Movement of Commodities” (Assigned sections) in Europe and the People Without History. University of California Press.

3. Foundation of nation-state system in the 18-20th century
(2/12: Tu) What are “nation-states”?: Two theories
Anderson, “1: Introduction,” “2: Cultural Roots,” and “3: Origin of national Consciousness” in Imagined.
*(eRes) Smith, A. 1991. “The Ethnic Basis of National Identity” (Excerpt) in National Identity. University of Nevada Press.

(2/14: Th) The first two waves: Creole and linguistic nationalisms
Anderson, “4. Creole Pioneers” and “5: Old Languages, New Models” in Imagined.
*** Short paper #2: “Global commodities” due ***

(2/19: Tu) The last two waves: Official and postcolonial nationalisms
    Anderson, “6: Official Nationalism and Imperialism” and “The Last Wave” in Imagined.

(2/21: Th) “Technologies” of nationalism
Anderson, “10: Census, Map, Museum” and “11. Memory and Forgetting” in Imagined.

(2/26: Tu) Midterm Exam

4. Neoliberal globalization in the 20th-21st centuries
(2/28: Th) Rise of neoliberal ideology / Library research orientation
Harvey, “Introduction” and “1: Freedom is Just Another Word” in Neoliberalism.

(3/4: Tu) Neoliberal state / Midterm course evaluation
Harvey, “2: The Construction of Consent” and “3: The Neoliberal State” in Neoliberalism.

(3/6: Th) Unbalanced neoliberalization
Harvey, “4: Uneven Geographical Developments” and “5: Neoliberalism with ‘Chinese Characteristics’” in Neoliberalism.
Film clip from: The Big Sellout (Florian Opitz, 2006)

Spring Break!!

(3/18: Tu) Present and future of neoliberal globalization:
    Harvey, “6: Neoliberalism on Trial” and “7: Freedom’s Prospect” in Neoliberalism.

(3/19: Wed) Film screening Black Gold: Wake Up and Smell the Coffee (Time & location TBA)

(3/20: Th) Resisting neoliberalization / Presentation by Sarah Page from DUFTA (’08, International Studies)
*(Online journal) Fridell, G. 2007. “Fair Trade Coffee and Commodity Fetishism: The Limits of Market-Driven Social Justice.” Historical Materialism 15(4):79-104.
*(Online journal) Stahler-Sholk, R. 2007. “Resisting Neoliberal Homogenization: The Zapatista Autonomy Movement.” Latin American Perspectives 34(2): 48-63.
Film clip from: Zapatista (Benjamin Eichert, et al., 1998)

5. Experiencing globalization I: Transnational families
(3/25: Tu) Colonialism and global dislocation
Parreñas, “Introduction” (Pp. 1-15), “1: The Dislocations of Migrant Filipina Domestic Workers,” and “2: The Philippines and the Outflow of Labor” in Servants.

(3/27: Th) Transnational families
Parreñas, “4: The Transnational Family: A Postindustrial Structure with Preindustrial Values” and “5: Intergenerational and Gender Relations in Transnational Families” in Servants.
Film: Chain of Love (Marije Meerman, 2001): Part I
*** Short paper #3: “A case study on neoliberalization” due ***

(4/1: Tu) Social class and transmigration
Parreñas, “6: Contradictory Class Mobility: The Politics of Domestic Work in Globalization” in Servants.
Film: Chain of Love: Part II

(4/3: Th) Global yet “partial” citizenship
Parreñas, “7: The Dislocation of Nonbelonging: Domestic Workers in the Filipino Migrant Communities of Rome and Los Angeles” and “Conclusion: Different Settings, Parallel Lives” in Servants.

6. Experiencing globalization II: Global popular culture
(4/8: Tu) Cultural globalization: Homogenization or localization?
Mitchell, “Introduction: Another Root – Hip Hop outside the USA” (Excerpts) in Global Noise.
*(eRes) Robertson, R. 1991. “Social Theory, Cultural Relativity and the Problem of Globality,” in Culture, Globalization, and the World System: Contemporary Conditions for the Representation of Identity. Macmillan.

(4/13: Th) Local contexts of global popular culture / Mini-presentations on hip-hop around the world
Selected chapters from Global Noise. 

(4/15: Tu) Cultural globalization beyond the “export/import” model
Condry, I. “9: A History of Japanese Hip-Hop: Street Dance, Club Scene, Pop Market” in Global Noise. 
*(eRes) Condry, I. 2007. “Introduction: Hip-Hop, Japan, and Cultural Globalization” in Hip-Hop Japan: Rap and the Paths of Cultural Globalization. Duke UP.

7. Research project presentations
(4/17: Th) Preparation for the research poster presentations (Meet at Fellows 101 computer lab)
*** Complete the PowerPoint template of the poster and bring it to the Copy Center (Doane Rm. 3) ***

(4/22: Tu) Research project poster presentations/discussions I

(4/24: Th) Research project poster presentations/ discussions II / Concluding remarks for the course

(4/26: Sat)
*** Research project paper due (6P.M.) ***

(5/1: Th, 4P.M.) Take home final exam due

 

Fall 2008                                                  Taku Suzuki
Mon/Wed 2:30-3:50PM                            International Studies Program
Fellows 203                                               Office: Fellows 420, x-6528
Office Hours: Mon/Wed: 6-7PM, Thu: 5-7PM 

E-mail: suzukit@denison.edu




Course description:
International Studies is an interdisciplinary exploration of global processes that shape broad international trends as well as specific historically and culturally embedded lives of people throughout the world.  As an academic field International Studies is relatively new, combining knowledge and methods from social sciences, humanities, and fine arts. The field emerged partly in response to a number of global developments involving the increased flows of people, information, and ideas in the second half of the twentieth century: labor migration, tourism, changing forms of production and consumption, cross-regional pandemic, human rights violation and advocacy, nuclear proliferation, expansion of consumer markets, developments in telecommunication technology and mass media, and global environmental problems. Understanding these realities and addressing related problems require scholars to transcend limitations imposed by traditional disciplinary boundaries.
There is a wide range of subjects that fall within the purview of inquiry in International Studies. In each of global processes associated with the mobility of people, capital, ideas and power transcend the boundaries of states and cultural groups; and issues of politics, economics, and culture intersect. The exploration of global processes is both historical and contemporary, requiring us to resort to sociological and historical approaches. These characteristics distinguish International Studies from other fields.  
This course introduces you to some of the basic concepts and analytical skills associated with International Studies.  It is the first core course in the International Studies major and it fulfills the “Interdisciplinary and World Issues” requirement of the General Education Program.  Whether or not you decide to pursue an International Studies major, this course will help you develop a more sophisticated understanding of how the world works and your place in it.

Course objectives:
At the end of this course, I want students to be able to:
1.    Identify economic, political, and socio-cultural causes of a particular local event or circumstance in today’s world beyond its immediate local context, and locate it within the long history of global interconnections.
2.    Predict economic, political, and socio-cultural outcomes of a particular local incident or situation within and beyond its immediate local context, in light of the long history of global interconnections.
3.    Form an informed opinion about a controversial political, economic, and socio-cultural situation or decision in the world today that is not discussed in class.

Books to purchase:

• Wolf, Eric R. 1997. Europe and the People Without History. U of California P.

• Anderson, Benedict 2006 [1991]. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the      Origin and Spread of Nationalism. Verso.

• Harvey, David 2005. A Brief History of Neoliberalism. Oxford UP.

• Parreñas, Rhacel Salazar 2001. Servants of Globalization: Women, Migration, and Domestic Work. Stanford UP.

• Raz, Aviad E. 1999. Riding the Black Ship: Japan and Tokyo Disneyland. Harvard UP.

All books are available at the Denison University bookstore.

Articles from a wide variety of publications are available on Electronic Reserves (eRes) and electronic journals accessible through the library homepage.  

PLEASE BRING THE ASSIGNED MATERIAL TO CLASS EACH DAY: This will allow us to consult the text during class.

Newspapers and periodicals:  
We will be talking about current events and how they relate to issues we are discussing in the course on a regular basis.  Therefore, it is imperative that you seek out good sources of information on global issues.  There are many ways to access this information.  The New York Times is available locally. You can also sign up for free daily email from The New York Times.  International Studies scholars, however, are sensitive to issues of perspective and biases in news reporting and make every effort to check out multiple sources.  The following websites may be helpful:

    http://allafrica.com (All Africa Global Media)
    http://mg.co.za (Daily Mail & Guardian from S. Africa)
    http://www.nytimes.com (The New York Times)
    http://washingtonpost.com (The Washington Post)
http://english.people.com.cn/ (The People’s Daily, a Chinese government-run newspaper [English])    
http://news.bbc.co.uk (British Broadcasting Company)
    http://english.aljazeera.net/English  (Al Jazeera, a UAE cable news station [English])
    http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com (The Times of India)
    http://www.lemonde.fr (Le Monde, French national newspaper [French])
    http://www.japantimes.co.jp/ (The Japan Times [English])
    http://www.spiegel.de/international/  (Del Spiegel, a German weekly magazine [English])
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/ (The Globe and Mail, a Canadian national newspaper [English])
http://www.nationmultimedia.com/ (The Nation, a Thai national newspaper [English])


This list is, of course, not exhaustive.  Google also provides an international news indexing service at http//news.google.com/ and click on “World.” Note that many newspapers in other countries have English language versions.

In addition, I would recommend that you peruse the following periodicals:  Foreign Policy, The Atlantic Monthly, The Economist, The Nation, The New York Review of Books.  All are available in our library.


Course requirements:
1.    Attendance and participation: 10%
Regular and meaningful participation is an important part of this course.  Students are expected to be active participants in this course.  This means, at minimum that you will attend the course regularly, complete all reading and writing assignments in on time and that you will offer valuable contributions to our class discussions on a regular basis.  My assessment of participation also takes into account the level of student engagement.  Does a student demonstrate a genuine interest in the topics and conceptual issues raised by the course?  Does a student go beyond the syllabus to introduce new information (from regular reading of news periodicals, other courses, or independent reading) into our discussions?  Failure to regularly and meaningfully participate in class will negatively affect your grade.  See the attendance policy below.

2.    Ad-hoc short writing assignments (in-class and course Blackboard site): 15%
There are approximately fifteen short (usually one or two paragraph-long) writing assignments presented during class (including midterm course evaluation, conducted during 10/15 class). These are response to class discussion, film, reading assignment, in-class exercise, and quiz. You will submit your assignments before or upon the subsequent meeting in a form of either discussion board-posting, completed worksheet, or typed paper. Each assignment will be evaluated by three criteria: 1. It has been submitted in time; 2. It indicates that you have thoroughly competed the reading, film-viewing, or in-class writing assignment; 3. Your assignment shows that you have gone beyond merely answering the question or stating personal opinion by integrating multiple issues discussed in class. If you have satisfied 1 and 2, you will receive full (100%) credit; if you have satisfied all three, you will receive 120% credit; if you have failed to satisfy 1 or 2, you will receive 80% of full credit; if you have failed to satisfy 1 and 2, you will receive 50% of full credit.   

3.    Global media watch presentation: 5%
From the fifth week of the course, we will start each class by five-minute presentations by two or three students present an Internet news article from a foreign (outside of the USA) newspaper from the list above. Present the reported case (an incident or situation) to the classmates by showing the website. In addition to briefly providing the background of the news, provide your own explanation of WHY this incident or situation is taking place by offering three groups of causal factors: 1) Political background; 2) Economic background; and 3) Cultural (non-economic/political) background. The presentation will be evaluated by the news content’s relevance, providing a brief but useful context, and clarity in the presentation itself.

4.    Two essays: 20% (10% X 2)
You will be required to submit three 3 page (double-spaced) essays on assigned topics. You will write these essays not as summaries of the readings and your responses to them, but instead as critical, insightful, and compelling arguments that synthesize issues raised by the readings, lectures, and class discussions. Your citation and reference listing must follow the APA format (See the library’s link: http://library.osu.edu/sites/guides/apagd.php). Each paper will count for 10% of your course grade. Unexcused late papers will be penalized one-half grade (e.g., an A- becomes B+) for each day late.

5.    Group research project: 20%
Three students form a group, and each, as a team, must conduct a research on political, economic, socio-cultural causes and effects of one particular incident or development in one particular region or country.  Each group will be assigned with a particular incident or situation in the regions around the world as their case-study; then the group will collectively research the case in order to identify its major causal factors and potential outcomes within and beyond the region by drawing on not only popular (media) sources but also academic (scholarly) sources.  Each member of the group, by applying some of the perspectives we have read about and discussed in class, must identify causes and potential effects in (1) politics; (2) economy; or (3) socio-cultural conditions. This assignment has two components:
a.    Poster presentation: 5%
The groups will present their research projects in the form of poster session in the last two classes of the course (12/8 & 10). The poster presentation, which lasts about fifteen minutes, must concisely summarize the assigned case, the group’s findings, and conclusions (10 minutes), and pose at least one relevant question to the rest of the class for further discussion on the subject (5 minutes). To prepare for the presentation, each group will collectively create a poster, in front of which the group will present. Each group will submit the poster (its PowerPoint template printout) as the evidence of their collective work. The presentation and discussion-leading will be graded by both evaluations of the posters themselves (qualities of design and organization) by peers (2%) and of the quality of oral presentation by the instructor (3%).
b.    Research paper: 15%
Each member of the group must write his/her own individual paper, drawn from the materials the group collectively gathered. The paper needs to be 5-6 page-long, double-spaced, no larger than 12pts font, with no larger than 1.25 inch margins. It must also be proofread, as the quality of writing (grammar, spelling, etc.) will be taken into consideration for grading. The paper will be graded with letters.

6.    Midterm and final exams: 30% (15% each)
The midterm exam will involve short-answer (identification) questions about the readings and one essay question.  The final exam will be a take-home exam, in a form of essay questions.  The final exam questions will be distributed in the last week of class (12/8). The exams will be graded with points. If you miss a midterm exam due to illness or a family emergency, you must take a make-up midterm exam. Make-up exams must be taken no later than two days after the original exam date. Delayed final take-home exam will be downgraded each passing day after the due date by ten percentile of the exam grade.


Grading:
Class attendance and participation:                 10%
Ad-hoc writing assignments:                          15%
Global media watch presentation:                    5%
Two essays:                                                   20% (10X2)
Group research project:
Group poster presentation:                              5%
Final individual paper:                                   15%
Midterm exam:                                              15%
Final exam:                                                   15%
                                                                    100%

Percentage        Letter Grade
94-                     A
90-93.99            A-
87-89.99            B+
84-86.99            B
80-83.99            B-
77-79.99            C+
74-76.99            C
70-73.99            C-
67-69.99            D+
64-66.99            D
60-63.99            D-
-59.99                F


Course policies:
1.    Plagiarism and Academic Integrity:
The students and faculty of Denison University and the International Studies Program are committed to academic integrity and will not tolerate any violation of this principle.  Academic honesty, the cornerstone of teaching and learning, lays the foundation for lifelong integrity. Academic dishonesty is, in most cases, intellectual theft.  It includes, but is not limited to, providing or receiving assistance in a manner not authorized by the instructor in the creation of work to be submitted for evaluation.  This standard applies to all work ranging from daily homework assignments to major exams.  Students must clearly cite any sources consulted—not only for quoted phrases but also for ideas and information that are not common knowledge.  Neither ignorance nor carelessness is an acceptable defense in cases of plagiarism.  It is the student’s responsibility to follow the appropriate format for citations. As is indicated in Denison’s Student Handbook, available through mydenison.edu , instructors must refer every act of academic dishonesty to the Associate Provost, and violations may result in failure in the course, suspension, or expulsion. (For further information, see http://www.denison.edu/student-affairs/handbook/ar03s02s01.html)

2.    Class Attendance and Tardiness:
You are expected to attend class regularly and faithfully.  If you have a bona fide and documented excuse for missing class (illness, family emergency, scheduled athletic competition) please inform me in advance of the class that you will miss.  If you must miss class, please contact a classmate to review what you missed.  While I am happy to answer questions and clarify material, I do not consider it my obligation to make up missed classes for individual students.  Also, do not come to class late.  Late arrivals are not only disruptive; they also convey a lack of respect for the course.  Unexcused absence and tardiness will result in downgrading your attendance.

3.    Late Work:
I do not accept late work because it shows disrespect to your classmates.  It is also unfair for you to receive extra time when your fellow students complete assignments on time, sometimes under duress.  All assignments will be handed out well in advance of the due date and all savvy scholars know that one should never postpone assignments until the last minute. Unless instructed otherwise, all assignments must be submitted electronically to the “Assignments” page of the course Blackboard before the due date and time.  When an assignment is due hand in what you have – partial work may receive partial credit.

4.    Writing Center:
The Center is a free resource available to all Denison students.  Student writing consultants from many majors help writers one-on-one in all phases of the writing process, from deciphering the assignment, to discussing ideas, to developing an argument, to finalizing a draft.  Because proofreading is a last step in that process, writers should leave plenty of time for getting their ideas right before expecting proofreading help.  Consultants also can help writers with personal documents, like job and internship applications.  The Center is located on the fourth floor of Barney-Davis Hall; satellite locations are on the third floor of the Library (the Entry level) and the first floor of Fellows near the Computer Lab.  Appointments between 4 p.m. and 9 p.m., Sunday through Thursday, can be made in the Barney location on-line at http://www.denison.edu/academics/writingcenter/index.html.  The satellite locations are drop-in; check the website at http://www.denison.edu/writingctr/ for those hours.

5.    Accommodation for Students with Disabilities:
Any student who feels he or she may need an accommodation based on the impact of a disability should contact me privately as soon as possible to discuss his or her specific needs. I rely on the Academic Support & Enrichment Center in 102 Doane to verify the need for reasonable accommodations based on documentation on file in that office.


Class schedule:
All eRes and Online journal articles (with asterisk [*]) are accessible from the course Blackboard’s “Reading Materials” page. eRes page may require you password (globalization).

1. Introduction / Theorizing globalization
(9/1: M) Course overview / Introduction

(9/3: W) Theorizing globalization I: Political-economy theories
*(eRes) Lairson, Thomas, and David Skidmore 2003. “Introduction: The Political Economy of International Affairs” in International Political Economy (3rd Ed.) Thomson.

(9/8: M) Theorizing globalization II: Cultural theories
*(eRes) Lewis, Jeff. 2008. “Contemporary Culture, Cultural Studies and the Global Mediasphere (Excerpts)” (Pp. 3-7, 10-14, 18-22, and 28-35) in Cultural Studies: The Basics. Sage.
*(eRes) Ross, Marc Howard 1997. “Culture and Identity in Comparative Political Analysis” in Comparative Politics: Rationality, Culture, and Structure, Lichbach, Mark Irving, and Alan S. Zuckerman, eds. Cambridge UP.

(9/10: W) Cultural materialist theory of globalization
Wolf, “1: Introduction” (Pp. 1-7, 19-23), “3: Modes of Production”

2. Globalization in the 15th-19th centuries: European expansion and “people without history”
(9/15: M)  Prelude to European-led globalization
Wolf, “2: The World in 1400” (Pp. 24-34, then a part on an assigned region), “4: Europe, Prelude to Expansion” (Pp. 101-108, then a part on an assigned region) in Europe.
*(eRes) Abu-Lughod, Janet 1989. “Studying a System in Formation” (Excerpt) in Before European Hegemony: The World System A.D. 1250-1350. Oxford University Press. 

(9/17: W) European expansion / Mini group presentations on the European encounters
Wolf, Pp. 129-130, and one chapter on assigned region from Chapters 5-8 in Europe.

(9/22: M) From mercantile capitalism to industrial capitalism
Wolf, Pp. 265-266, “9: Industrial Revolution” and “11: The Movement of Commodities” (Pp. 310-318, 333-336) in Europe.
*(eRes) Mintz, Sydney W. 1985. “Power” in Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History. Penguin Books.
Film: How Sweet It Is: The Story of Sugar (2003, Acorn Associates)

3. Spread of nation-state system in the 18-20th century
(9/24: W) What are “nation-states”?: Two theories
Anderson, “1: Introduction” and “3: Origin of national Consciousness” in Imagined.
*(eRes) Smith, Anthony 1991. “The Ethnic Basis of National Identity” (Excerpt) in National Identity. University of Nevada Press.

(9/29: M) First two waves: Creole and linguistic nationalisms
Anderson, “4. Creole Pioneers” and “5: Old Languages, New Models” in Imagined.
*** Short paper #1: “Legacies of colonialism” due ***

(10/1: W) Last two waves: Official and postcolonial nationalisms
    Anderson, “6: Official Nationalism and Imperialism” and “7: The Last Wave” in Imagined.

(10/6: M) “Technologies” of nationalism
Anderson, “10: Census, Map, Museum” and “11. Memory and Forgetting” in Imagined.

4. Neoliberal globalization in the 20th-21st centuries
(10/8: W) Rise of neoliberal ideology
Harvey, “Introduction” and “1: Freedom is Just Another Word” in Neoliberalism.

(10/13: M) Midterm Exam

(10/15: W) Neoliberal state / Midterm course evaluation
Harvey, “2: The Construction of Consent” and “3: The Neoliberal State” in Neoliberalism.

(10/20: M) Unbalanced neoliberalization: Mini group presentations on neoliberalization policies
Harvey, “4: Uneven Geographical Developments” (selected sections) and “5: Neoliberalism with ‘Chinese Characteristics’” in Neoliberalism.

(10/21: Tu) Film screening The Big Sellout (Florian Opitz, 2006) (Time & location TBA)

(10/22: W) Neoliberal globalization on trial 
    Harvey, “6: Neoliberalism on Trial” and “7: Freedom’s Prospect” in Neoliberalism.

(10/27: M) Beyond neoliberal globalization I: Fair trade / Presentation by DUFTA
*(Online journal) Fridell, Gavin 2006. “Fair Trade and Neoliberalism: Assessing Emerging Perspectives.” Latin American Perspectives 33(6): 8-28.
*(Online journal) Pirotte, Gautier, Geoffrey Pleyers, and Marc Poncelet 2006. “Fair-trade coffee in Nicaragua and Tanzania: a comparison.” Development in Practice 16(5): 441-451.
*(Online journal) Castle, Stephen, and Mark Landler, 2008. “After 7 Years, Talks Collapse on World Trade” The New York Times, July 30
Film: Just Coffee (Consumer International, 2006)

(10/29: W) Beyond neoliberal globalization II: social entrepreneurship
*(Online journal) Alvord, Sarah H., David Brown, and Christine W. Letts 2004. “Social Entrepreneurship and Societal Transformation: An Exploratory Study.” Journal of Applied Behavioral Science 40(3): 260-282.
*(Online link via course Blackboard) Watch one of the PBS Frontline/World series on social entrepreneurs.

5. Experiencing globalization I: Transnational families
(11/3: M) Colonialism and global dislocation
Parreñas, “Introduction” (Pp. 1-15), “1: The Dislocations of Migrant Filipina Domestic Workers,” and “2: The Philippines and the Outflow of Labor” in Servants.
Film: Chain of Love (Marije Meerman, 2001): Part I

(11/5: W) Transnational families
Parreñas, “4: The Transnational Family: A Postindustrial Structure with Preindustrial Values” and “5: Intergenerational and Gender Relations in Transnational Families” in Servants.
Film: Chain of Love: Part II
*** Short paper #2: “A case study on neoliberalization” due ***

(11/10: M) Transnational nonbelonging
Parreñas, “6: Contradictory Class Mobility: The Politics of Domestic Work in Globalization” and “7: The Dislocation of Nonbelonging: Domestic Workers in the Filipino Migrant Communities of Rome and Los Angeles” (assigned sections) in Servants.

6. Experiencing globalization II: Cultural globalization
(11/12: W) Cultural globalization: “Clash” or “Ecumene” or Both?
*(eRes) Huntington, Samuel 2006 (1993). “The Clash of Civilizations?” (excerpt) in The Globalization Reader (2nd Ed.). Blackwell.
*(eRes) Hannerz, Ulf 2006 (1992). “The Global Ecumene” (excerpt) in The Globalization Reader (2nd Ed.). Blackwell.
*(eRes) Barber, Benjamin 2006 (1995). “Jihad and McWorld” in The Globalization Reader (2nd Ed.). Blackwell.

(11/17: M) Representation of “global” culture
Raz, “Introduction” (Pp. 1-7, 11-16), “1. America in Tokyo: The Remaking of Disneyland in Japan” and “2. The Exotic and Familiar” in Black Ship.

(11/19: W) Translating “global” cultural industry / Group research guideline
Raz, “4. Organizational Culture and Organizational Critique” in Black Ship.

Thanksgiving Break!!

(12/1: M) Beyond the “global vs. local” culture
Raz, “6. Receptions of TDL-Disney” and “7. Traveling Theories: Aboard the Black Ship” in Black Ship.

7. Research project presentations
(12/3: W) Preparation for the research poster presentations (Meet at Fellows 101 computer lab)
*** Complete the PowerPoint template of the poster and bring it to the Copy Center (Doane Rm. 3) ***

(12/8: M) Research project poster presentations / discussions I
*** Final take-home exam distributed ***

(12/10: W) Research project poster presentations / discussions II

(12/12: Fri)
*** Research project paper due (6P.M.) ***

(12/19: Fri, 4P.M.) Take home final exam due


 

THE MAKING OF THE MODERN WORLD
INTERNATIONAL STUDIES 100-02


Prof. John Cort                                     Fall 2008
Knapp 310 and Fellows 417                    Tuesday, Thursday 10:00 – 11:20
x6254                                                  Knapp 301
cort@denison.edu

International Studies 100 involves an interdisciplinary exploration of some of the basic concepts and analytical skills associated with International Studies as an academic field.  International Studies explores global processes that shape broad international trends and the effects of these on human lives throughout the world.

Our study of global processes is both historical and contemporary.  Students in this course will be introduced to both a history of the ways of seeing the world and critical views of those methods.

Moving into the contemporary era, the course will focus on the connections between past and present in the “new world order.”  Among the global developments we will look at are the following:
• the shifting balance of power between nation-states and transnational organizations
• increased mobility of people and capital
• shifting forms of production and finance
• pandemic diseases
• expansion of consumer markets and commoditization
• sustainability and developments in technology
• human rights violations and advocacy
• nuclear proliferation
• developments in communication and mass media
• global environmental problems.

     As an academic field International Studies is relatively new, combining knowledge and methods from social sciences, humanities and fine arts. The field emerged partly in response to a number of global developments that could not be adequately understood from within the frameworks of any one of the traditional academic fields. Understanding these realities and addressing related problems require students to transcend limitations imposed by traditional disciplinary boundaries.

     There is a wide range of subjects that fall within the purview of inquiry in International Studies. All of the global processes and flows we study transcend the boundaries of states and cultural groups.  Issues of politics, economics, and culture intersect. Because the exploration of global processes is both historical and contemporary, students need to become familiar with both sociological and historical approaches. These are some of the characteristics that distinguish International Studies from other fields.

     This course introduces you to some of the basic concepts and analytical skills associated with International Studies. It is the first core course in the International Studies major and it fulfills the “Interdisciplinary and World Issues” (I) requirement of the General Education Program. Whether or not you decide to pursue an International Studies major, this course will help you develop a more sophisticated understanding of how the world works and your place in it.

COURSE REQUIREMENTS

READINGS

BOOKS

Following are available at the Denison University Bookstore, and are on reserve in the Library

Arjun Appadurai, Fear of Small Numbers
C. A. Bayly, The Birth of the Modern World
Mira Kamdar, Motiba’s Tattoos
Sidney W. Mintz, Sweetness and Power
Pietra Rivoli, TheTravels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy


READINGS ON E-RES

Janet Lippman Abu-Lughod, “The World System in the Thirteenth Century: Dead-End or Precursor?”
Samir Amin, “The Ancient World-Systems versus the Modern Capitalist World-System”
Benedict Anderson, “Introduction” to Imagined Communities, 1-7
Richard Falk, “The Making of Global Citizenship”
Ulf Hannerz, “The Global Ecumene”
Jonathan Xavier Inda and Renato Rosaldo, “Tracking Global Flows”
Thomas Lairson and David Skidmore, “Introduction: The Political Economy of International Affairs,” from International Political Economy, 1-16
Jeff Lewis, Cultural Studies–The Basics, 3-38, 449-54
Martin W. Lewis and Karen E. Wigen, The Myth of Continents, 2-19
Paula S. Rothenberg (ed.), Beyond Borders, pp. 7-26, 37-43, 317-67
William H. Sewell, Jr., “The Concept(s) of Culture”
Eric R. Wolf, Europe and the People Without History, 24-72, 101-25

Reading available from Consort
Samuel P. Huntington, “The Clash of Civilizations?”  Foreign Affairs 72:3, 22-49.

COURSE EXPECTATIONS

Attendance and Participation

This is an introductory course with a large number of students.  It is not, however, primarily a lecture course.  While there will be occasional informal lectures, most of the class time will be interactive.  The large number of students is actually an advantage, for it means we will have many perspectives represented in class.  But we can learn those perspectives only if everyone attends and participates.
You are expected to attend all classes.  If you miss a class you will be expected to meet with other students to fill in what you have missed.
You are expected to have done all the assigned readings before class, and to bring the readings to class with you.  You are expected to come prepared to engage in thoughtful and considered discussion.  You are also expected to bring written assignments to class.
Informed participation factors into your course grade.


ASSIGNMENTS

Two take-home essays, due Oct. 3 and Nov. 14                       30%
Two short 2-page essays, due Sept. 26 and to be determined    10%
Mid-term in-class examination, Oct. 14                                     20%
Final exam, Dec. 16                                                                  30%
Participation and response papers                                             10%

Questions for the two take-home essays, and the assignment for the two short 2-page essays, will be handed out.

RESPONSE PAPERS

At least once, and frequently twice, each week throughout the semester, you will be responsible for a one- or two-page written paper in response to the required class readings or films.  These papers will form a basis for classroom discussion of the material, and so are due in class on the day assigned.

You will be given general directions for each response paper in advance.  At the same time, the response papers are an opportunity for you to engage the course material in a way that enables you to achieve greater clarity concerning your own thoughts, and so there is no "right" or "wrong" response.

These assignments will not be graded for either content or style.  If you hand in the paper in class, you will receive a grade of 4.  If the paper is late for any reason, except those verified by a written note from Health Services or a Dean, you will receive a grade of 1.  Late response papers will be accepted only within one week of the due date.  If you do not hand in a paper, you will receive a grade of 0.  If it is obvious that you have not done the assignment, and are handing in a paper based on nothing but your own ingenuity and imagination, in all likelihood you will receive a 0.  If you hand in every response paper on time throughout the semester, your grade for this portion of the course will automatically be an A.

As a favor to me, I ask that you type and double-space the response papers.  This will serve two beneficial functions for you as well:  by typing the papers, you will have an easily accessible record of your responses from throughout the semester; and you will learn the valuable skill of being able to compose a paper at the keyboard.  Papers that are handwritten, however, will not be penalized.

Newspaper and Periodicals


During the course of the semester we will be discussing events in the news and how they illuminate issues that we are discussing in the course.  Therefore it is imperative that you seek out as wide an array as possible of sources for good and diverse information on global issues.  There are many ways to access such information.  The New York Times is available locally, and many departments have daily copies of it available in their common areas.  You can also sign up to get the Times on-line.  A savvy International Studies student, however, is sensitive to issues of perspective and bias in all news reporting, and so will want to available her or himself to multiple sources.  The following websites may be helpful:

http://allafrica.com (AllAfrica Global Media)
http://mg.co.za (Daily Mail and Guardian, from South Africa)
http://www.nytimes.com (The New York Times)
http://washingtonpost.com (The Washington Post)
http://news.bbc.co.uk (British Broadcasting Company)
http://aljazeer.net/English (Al Jazeera, from the United Arab Emirates)
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com (The Times of India)
http://www.dawn.com (Dawn, from Pakistan)
http://www.lemonde.fr (Le Monde, from France)
http://www.lexpress.fr (L’Express, from France)
http://www.utm.edu/departments/french/french (choose link for press, radio and television)
http://spiegel.de (Der Spiegel, from Germany)
http://zeit.de (Zeit, from Germany)
http://www.themoscowtimes.com (Moscow Times)
http://english.people.com.cn (The People’s Daily, from China)
http://www.japantimes.co.jp (Japan Times)
http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/ (The Straits Times, from Singapore)
http.www.scmp.com/ (South China Morning Post, from Hong Kong)
http://www.theglobeandmail.com (The Globe and Mail, from Canada)

This list is far from exhaustive!  Many other newspapers in other countries have English-language versions, even if English is not the primary language of the country.  You can also access a global news indexing service at Google by clicking on “world.”  Another way to find a large number of US and international newspapers is through the Library home page.  Go to Search & Find, then to Online Resources, and you'll find a link to Newspaper Source from EBSCO.

There are also many useful periodicals available in the Denison library, including the following:  The Atlantic Monthly, The Economist, Foreign Policy, The Nation, The New York Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement.

You can also listen to the BBC overnight (12:00 midnight to 5:00 a.m. Monday through Friday, until 7:00 a.m. on Saturday and Sunday) on our local Columbus public radio station WCBE, 90.5 FM and http://www.wcbe.org.



TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF CLASSES
* = e-res (case-sensitive password is “visions”)


Tues, Sept 2        Introduction


THEORIZING GLOBALIZATION

Thurs., Sept. 4        Mapping and Naming
    * Paula S. Rothenberg (ed.), Beyond Borders, pp. 7-26, 37-43, 317-67
    * Martin W. Lewis and Karen E. Wigen, The Myth of Continents, pp. 2-19

Tues., Sept. 9        A Clash of Civilizations?

Samuel P. Huntington, “The Clash of Civilizations?”  Foreign Affairs 72:3, 22-49.  Online from Consort


Thurs., Sept. 11    Varieties of Globalization

    * Richard Falk, “The Making of Global Citizenship”
    * Ulf Hannerz, “The Global Ecumene”
    * Jonathan Xavier Inda and Renato Rosaldo, “Tracking Global Flows”


INTERNATIONAL STUDIES TOOL-BOX

Tues., Sept. 16        What is Political-Economy?
* Thomas Lairson and David Skidmore, “Introduction: The Political Economy of International Affairs,” from  International Political Economy, pp. 1-16

Thurs., Sept. 18    What is Culture?
    * William H. Sewell, Jr., “The Concept(s) of Culture”
    * Jeff Lewis, Cultural Studies–The Basics, pp. 3-38, 449-54


THE WORLD BEFORE THE MODERN WORLD

Tues., Sept. 23
    * Eric R. Wolf, Europe and the People Without History, pp. 24-72

Thurs., Sept. 25
    * Eric R. Wolf, Europe and the People Without History, pp. 101-25

Fri., Sept. 26
    First 2-page essay due no later than 4:00 p.m. in my office, Knapp 310.


Tues. Sept. 30
* Samir Amin, “The Ancient World-Systems versus the Modern Capitalist World-System”

* Janet Lippman Abu-Lughod, “The World System in the Thirteenth Century: Dead-End or Precursor?”

Fri., Oct. 3
    First take-home essay due no later than 4:00 p.m. in my office, Knapp 310.



THE RISE OF THE MODERN WORLD

Thurs., Oct. 2
    Bayly, The Birth of the Modern World, chs. 2, 3

Tues., Oct. 7
    Bayly, The Birth of the Modern World, chs. 6, 7
    * Benedict Anderson, “Introduction” to Imagined Communities, 1-7

Thurs., Oct 9
    Bayly, The Birth of the Modern World, ch. 9

Tues., Oct. 14
    Mid-term in-class examination

Thurs., Oct. 16
    Mid-semester study break


THE EMERGENCE OF A WORLD ECONOMY

Tues., Oct. 21
    Bayly, The Birth of the Modern World, ch. 5
    Mintz, Sweetness and Power, pp. xvii-xxx

Thurs., Oct. 23
    Mintz, Sweetness and Power, chs. 1, 2

Tues., Oct. 28
    Mintz, Sweetness and Power, chs. 3, 4

Thurs., Oct. 30
    Mintz, Sweetness and Power, ch. 5


THE GLOBAL ECONOMY TODAY

Tues., Nov. 4
    Rivoli, The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy, pp. xi-xxi, Part I

Thurs., Nov. 6
    Rivoli, The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy, Part II

Tues., Nov. 11
    Rivoli, The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy, Part III

Thurs., Nov. 13
    Rivoli, The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy, Part IV, 211-18

Fri, Nov. 14
    Second take-home essay due no later than 4:00 p.m. in my office, Knapp 310.


GLOBALIZATION AND VIOLENCE

Tues., Nov. 18
    Appadurai, Fear of Small Numbers, chs. 1-3

Thurs., Nov. 20
    Appadurai, Fear of Small Numbers, chs. 4-6


THANKSGIVING BREAK


THE MODERN GLOBAL WORLD: A FAMILY PERSPECTIVE

Tues., Dec. 2
    Kamdar, Motiba’s Tattoos, xi-xxv, ch. 1

Thurs., Dec. 4
    Kamdar, Motiba’s Tattoos, chs. 2, 3
Tues., Dec. 9
    Kamdar, Motiba’s Tattoos, chs. 4, 5

Thurs., Dec. 11    end-of-semester reflections and discussions

Tues., Dec. 16
    2:00 - 4:00:  final exam

Disability

Any student who feels he or she may need an accommodation based on the impact of a disability should contact me privately as soon as possible to discuss his or her specific needs. I rely on the Academic Support and Enrichment Center in Doane 102 to verify the need for reasonable accommodations based on documentation on file in that office.


Academic Integrity

The students and faculty of Denison University and the International Studies Program are committed to academic integrity and will not tolerate any violation of this principle.  Academic honesty, the cornerstone of teaching and learning, lays the foundation for lifelong integrity.

      Academic dishonesty is, in most cases, intellectual theft.  It includes, but is not limited to, providing or receiving assistance in a manner not authorized by the instructor in the creation of work to be submitted for evaluation.  This standard applies to all work ranging from daily written assignments to major exams.  Students must clearly cite any sources consulted—not only for quoted phrases but also for ideas and information that are not common knowledge. Neither ignorance nor carelessness is an acceptable defense in cases of plagiarism. It is the student’s responsibility to follow the appropriate format for citations.

      As is indicated in Denison’s Student Handbook , available through mydenison.edu,  instructors must refer every act of academic dishonesty to the Associate Provost, and violations may result in failure in the course, suspension, or expulsion.
For further information, see the following:
http://www.denison.edu/student-affairs/handbook/ar03s02s01.html
http://www.denison.edu/student-affairs/handbook/article7.html
http://www.denison.edu/offices/provost/handbook/ar07s02.html

Writing Center

The Center is a free resource available to all Denison students.  Student writing consultants from many majors help writers one-on-one in all phases of the writing process, from deciphering the assignment, to discussing ideas, to developing an argument, to finalizing a draft.  Because proofreading is a last step in that process, writers should leave plenty of time for getting their ideas right before expecting proofreading help.  Consultants also can help writers with personal documents, like job and internship applications.  The Center is located on the fourth floor of Barney-Davis Hall; satellite locations are on the third floor of the Library (the Entry level) and the first floor of Fellows near the Computer Lab.  Appointments between 4 p.m. and 9 p.m., Sunday through Thursday, can be made in the Barney location on-line at http://www.denison.edu/academics/writingcenter/index.html.  The satellite locations are drop-in; check the website at http://www.denison.edu/writingctr/ for those hours.
 

1. Plagiarism and Academic Integrity:

2. Class Attendance and Tardiness:

3. Late Work:

4. Writing Center:

5. Accommodation for Students with Disabilities:

THE MAKING OF THE MODERN WORLD
INTERNATIONAL STUDIES 100-01


Prof. John Cort                    Fall 2009
Knapp 310 and Fellows 421                Tuesday, Thursday 10:00 – 11:20
x6254                            Knapp 307
cort@denison.edu

International Studies 100 involves an interdisciplinary exploration of some of the basic concepts and analytical skills associated with International Studies as an academic field.  International Studies explores global processes that shape broad international trends and the effects of these on human lives throughout the world.

Our study of global processes is both historical and contemporary.  Students in this course will be introduced to both a history of the ways of seeing the world and critical views of those methods.

Moving into the contemporary era, the course will focus on the connections between past and present in the “new world order.”  Among the global developments we will look at are the following:
· the shifting balance of power between nation-states and transnational organizations
· increased mobility of people and capital
· shifting forms of production and finance
· pandemic diseases
· expansion of consumer markets and commoditization
· sustainability and developments in technology
· human rights violations and advocacy
· nuclear proliferation
· developments in communication and mass media
· global environmental problems.

     As an academic field International Studies is relatively new, combining knowledge and methods from social sciences, humanities and fine arts. The field emerged partly in response to a number of global developments that could not be adequately understood from within the frameworks of any one of the traditional academic fields. Understanding these realities and addressing related problems require students to transcend limitations imposed by traditional disciplinary boundaries.

     There is a wide range of subjects that fall within the purview of inquiry in International Studies. All of the global processes and flows we study transcend the boundaries of states and cultural groups.  Issues of politics, economics, and culture intersect. Because the exploration of global processes is both historical and contemporary, students need to become familiar with both sociological and historical approaches. These are some of the characteristics that distinguish International Studies from other fields.

     This course introduces you to some of the basic concepts and analytical skills associated with International Studies. It is the first core course in the International Studies major and it fulfills the “Interdisciplinary and World Issues” (I) requirement of the General Education Program. Whether or not you decide to pursue an International Studies major, this course will help you develop a more sophisticated understanding of how the world works and your place in it.

COURSE REQUIREMENTS

READINGS

Books

Following are available at the Denison University Bookstore, and are on reserve in the Library

Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities (revised edition)
Arjun Appadurai, Fear of Small Numbers
Michael F. Brown, Who Owns Native Culture?
Mira Kamdar, Motiba’s Tattoos
Sidney W. Mintz, Sweetness and Power

Reader
Martin W. Lewis and Karen E. Wigen, The Myth of Continents, pp. 2-13
Paula S. Rothenberg (ed.), Beyond Borders:
    David Turnbull, “The Function of Maps” (pp. 7-15)
    Janice Monk, “Are Things What They Seem to Be?” (pp. 16-26)
    Chilla Bulbeck, “Fracturing Binarisms” (pp. 37-41)
    Chandra Talpade Mohanty, “One-Third/Two-Thirds World” (pp. 41-43)
Richard Falk, “The Making of Global Citizenship”
Ulf Hannerz, “The Global Ecumene”
Jonathan Xavier Inda and Renato Rosaldo, “Tracking Global Flows”
Thomas Lairson and David Skidmore, “Introduction: The Political Economy of International
Affairs,” from International Political Economy, pp. 1-16
William H. Sewell, Jr., “The Concept(s) of Culture”

Reading available from Consort
Samuel P. Huntington, “The Clash of Civilizations?”  Foreign Affairs 72:3 (Summer 1993), 22-49.

COURSE EXPECTATIONS

Attendance and Participation

This is an introductory course with a large number of students.  It is not, however, primarily a lecture course.  While there will be occasional informal lectures, most of the class time will be interactive.  The large number of students is actually an advantage, for it means we will have many perspectives represented in class.  But we can learn those perspectives only if everyone attends and participates.
You are expected to attend all classes.  If you miss a class you will be expected to meet with other students to fill in what you have missed.
You are expected to have done all the assigned readings before class, and to bring the readings to class with you.  You are expected to come prepared to engage in thoughtful and considered discussion.  You are also expected to bring written assignments to class.
Informed participation factors into your course grade.


ASSIGNMENTS

Four 4-page take-home essays on readings                40%
Two 3-page essays on current affairs                    10%
In-class content quiz                            10%
Final exam                                30%
Participation and response papers                    10%

Questions for the four 4-page take-home essays, and the assignment for the two 3-page essays, will be handed out.

KEY DATES

Due dates for four 4-page essays:
    Wed., Sept. 16, 4:00 p.m., in my office in Knapp 310
    Wed., Oct. 14, 4:00 p.m., in my office in Knapp 310
    Fri., Oct. 30, 4:00 p.m., in my office in Knapp 310
    Fri., Nov. 13, 4:00 p.m., in my office in Knapp 310
Due dates for two 3-page essays will determined individually
In-class content quiz:
    Tuesday, Sept. 29
Final exam:
    Monday, Dec. 21, 2:00-4:00 p.m.

RESPONSE PAPERS

At least once, and frequently twice, each week throughout the semester, you will be responsible for a one- or two-page written paper in response to the required class readings or films.  These papers will form a basis for classroom discussion of the material, and so are due in class on the day assigned.

You will be given general directions for each response paper in advance.  At the same time, the response papers are an opportunity for you to engage the course material in a way that enables you to achieve greater clarity concerning your own thoughts, and so there is no "right" or "wrong" response.

These assignments will not be graded for either content or style.  If you hand in the paper in class, you will receive a grade of 4.  If the paper is late for any reason, except those verified by a written note from Health Services or a Dean, you will receive a grade of 1.  Late response papers will be accepted only within one week of the due date.  If you do not hand in a paper, you will receive a grade of 0.  If it is obvious that you have not done the assignment, and are handing in a paper based on nothing but your own ingenuity and imagination, in all likelihood you will receive a 0.  If you hand in every response paper on time throughout the semester, your grade for this portion of the course will automatically be an A.

As a favor to me, I ask that you type and double-space the response papers.  This will serve two beneficial functions for you as well:  by typing the papers, you will have an easily accessible record of your responses from throughout the semester; and you will learn the valuable skill of being able to compose a paper at the keyboard.  Papers that are handwritten, however, will not be penalized.

Newspaper and Periodicals


During the course of the semester we will be discussing events in the news and how they illuminate issues that we are discussing in the course.  Therefore it is imperative that you seek out as wide an array as possible of sources for good and diverse information on global issues.  There are many ways to access such information.  The New York Times is available locally, and many departments have daily copies of it available in their common areas.  You can also sign up to get the Times on-line.  A savvy International Studies student, however, is sensitive to issues of perspective and bias in all news reporting, and so will want to available her or himself to multiple sources.  The following websites may be helpful:

http://allafrica.com (AllAfrica Global Media)
http://mg.co.za (Daily Mail and Guardian, from South Africa)
http://www.nytimes.com (The New York Times)
http://washingtonpost.com (The Washington Post)
http://news.bbc.co.uk (British Broadcasting Company)
http://aljazeer.net/English (Al Jazeera, from the United Arab Emirates)
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com (The Times of India)
http://www.dawn.com (Dawn, from Pakistan)
http://www.lemonde.fr (Le Monde, from France)
http://www.lexpress.fr (L’Express, from France)
http://www.utm.edu/departments/french/french (choose link for press, radio and television)
http://spiegel.de (Der    Spiegel, from Germany)
http://zeit.de (Zeit, from Germany)
http://www.themoscowtimes.com (Moscow Times)
http://english.people.com.cn (The People’s Daily, from China)
http://www.japantimes.co.jp (Japan Times)
http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/ (The Straits Times, from Singapore)
http.www.scmp.com/ (South China Morning Post, from Hong Kong)
http://www.theglobeandmail.com (The Globe and Mail, from Canada)

This list is far from exhaustive!  Many other newspapers in other countries have English-language versions, even if English is not the primary language of the country.  You can also access a global news indexing service at Google by clicking on “world.”  Another way to find a large number of US and international newspapers is through the Library home page.  Go to Search & Find, then to Online Resources, and you'll find a link to Newspaper Source from EBSCO.

There are also many useful periodicals available in the Denison library, including the following:  The Atlantic Monthly, The Economist, Foreign Policy, The Nation, The New York Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement.

You can also listen to the BBC overnight (12:00 midnight to 5:00 a.m. Monday through Friday, until 7:00 a.m. on Saturday and Sunday) on our local Columbus public radio station WCBE, 90.5 FM and http://www.wcbe.org.


TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF CLASSES


Tues., Sept 1        Introduction


THEORIZING GLOBALIZATION

Thurs., Sept. 3        Mapping and Naming
    Reading:
    Martin W. Lewis and Karen E. Wigen, The Myth of Continents, pp. 2-13
In Paula S. Rothenberg (ed.), Beyond Borders:
        David Turnbull, “The Function of Maps” (pp. 7-15)
        Janice Monk, “Are Things What They Seem to Be?” (pp. 16-26)
        Chilla Bulbeck, “Fracturing Binarisms” (pp. 37-41)
    Chandra Talpade Mohanty, “One-Third/Two-Thirds World”

Tues., Sept. 8        A Clash of Civilizations?
    Reading
Samuel P. Huntington, “The Clash of Civilizations?”  Foreign Affairs 72:3 (Summer 1993), 22-49.  Online from Consort


Thurs., Sept. 10    Global Ecumene and Global Citizenship
    Reading:   
    Richard Falk, “The Making of Global Citizenship”
    Ulf Hannerz, “The Global Ecumene”

Tues., Sept. 15        Global Flows
    Reading:
    Jonathan Xavier Inda and Renato Rosaldo, “Tracking Global Flows”

Wed., Sept. 16
    First 4-page essay due by 4:00 p.m. in my office, 310 Knapp

INTERNATIONAL STUDIES TOOL-BOX

Thurs., Sept. 17    What is Political-Economy?
    Reading
Thomas Lairson and David Skidmore, “Introduction: The Political Economy of International Affairs,” from International Political Economy, pp. 1-16

Tues., Sept. 22        What is Culture?
    Reading:
    William H. Sewell, Jr., “The Concept(s) of Culture”

Thurs., Sept. 24
No class

Tues., Sept. 29
In-class content quiz

SOME KEY CHARACTERISTICS OF THE “MODERN” WORLD

The Rise of the Concept of the Nation State

Thurs., Oct. 1
    Reading:
    Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, pp. xi-xv, 1-22, 47-66, 207-29

Tues., Oct. 6
    Reading:
    Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, pp. 67-140

Thurs., Oct. 8
    Reading:
    Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, pp. 141-86

Tues., Oct. 13
    Reading:
    Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, pp. 187-206

Wed., Oct. 14
    Second 4-page essay due by 4:00 p.m. in my office, 310 Knapp

The Rise of Commodity Capitalism

Thurs., Oct. 15
    Reading:
    Sidney Mintz, Sweetness and Power, pp. xv-xxx, 3-19

Tuesday, October 20
    No class

Thurs., Oct. 22
    Reading:
    Sidney Mintz, Sweetness and Power, pp. 19-73

Tues., Oct. 27
    Reading:
    Sidney Mintz, Sweetness and Power, pp. 74-150

Thurs., Oct. 29
    Reading:
    Sidney Mintz, Sweetness and Power, pp. 151-214

Fri., Oct. 30
    Third 4-page essay due by 4:00 p.m. in my office, 310 Knapp


Indigenous Peoples, Heritage, and Intellectual Property Rights

Tues., Nov. 3
    Reading:
    Michael F. Brown, Who Owns Native Culture?, pp. ix-xiii, 1-42

Thurs., Nov. 5
    Reading:
    Michael F. Brown, Who Owns Native Culture?, pp. 43-143

Tues., Nov. 10
Reading:
    Michael F. Brown, Who Owns Native Culture?, pp. 144-204

Thurs., Nov. 12
Reading:
    Michael F. Brown, Who Owns Native Culture?, pp. 205-52

Fri., Nov. 13
    Fourth 4-page essay due by 4:00 p.m. in my office, 310 Knapp


Globalization and Violence

Tues., Nov. 17
    Reading:
    Arjun Appadurai, Fear of Small Numbers, pp. ix-xiii, 1-48

Thurs., Nov. 19
    Reading:
    Arjun Appadurai, Fear of Small Numbers, pp. 49-137


THANKSGIVING BREAK


THE MODERN GLOBAL WORLD: A FAMILY PERSPECTIVE

Tues., Dec. 1
    Reading:
    Mira Kamdar, Motiba’s Tattoos, pp. xi-xxv, 1-72

Thurs., Dec. 3
    Reading:
    Mira Kamdar, Motiba’s Tattoos, pp. 73-178

Tues., Dec. 8
    Reading:
    Mira Kamdar, Motiba’s Tattoos, pp. 179-270

Thurs., Dec. 10      End-of-semester Reflections and Discussions

Mon., Dec. 21
    2:00 - 4:00 p.m.:  final exam

Disability

Any student who feels he or she may need an accommodation based on the impact of a disability should contact me privately as soon as possible to discuss his or her specific needs. I rely on the Academic Support and Enrichment Center in Doane 102 to verify the need for reasonable accommodations based on documentation on file in that office.

Writing Center

The Center is a free resource available to all Denison students.  Student writing consultants from many majors help writers one-on-one in all phases of the writing process, from deciphering the assignment, to discussing ideas, to developing an argument, to finalizing a draft.  Because proofreading is a last step in that process, writers should leave plenty of time for getting their ideas right before expecting proofreading help.  Consultants also can help writers with personal documents, like job and internship applications.  The Center is located on the fourth floor of Barney-Davis Hall; satellite locations are on the third floor of the Library (the Entry level) and the first floor of Fellows near the Computer Lab.  Appointments between 4 p.m. and 9 p.m., Sunday through Thursday, can be made in the Barney location on-line at http://www.denison.edu/academics/writingcenter/index.html.  The satellite locations are drop-in; check the website at http://www.denison.edu/writingcenter/ for those hours.

ACADEMIC INTEGRITY AT DENISON UNIVERSITY


Proposed and developed by Denison students, passed unanimously by DCGA and Denison’s faculty, the Code of Academic Integrity requires that instructors notify the Associate Provost of cases of academic dishonesty, and it requires that cases be heard by the Academic Integrity Board. Further, the code makes students responsible for promoting a culture of integrity on campus and acting in instances in which integrity is violated.

Academic honesty, the cornerstone of teaching and learning, lays the foundation for lifelong integrity. Academic dishonesty is intellectual theft. It includes, but is not limited to, providing or receiving assistance in a manner not authorized by the instructor in the creation of work to be submitted for evaluation. This standard applies to all work ranging from daily homework assignments to major exams. Students must clearly cite any sources consulted—not only for quoted phrases but also for ideas and information that are not common knowledge. Neither ignorance nor carelessness is an acceptable defense in cases of plagiarism. It is the student’s responsibility to follow the appropriate format for citations. Students should ask their instructors for assistance in determining what sorts of materials and assistance are appropriate for assignments and for guidance in citing such materials clearly.

For further information about the Code of Academic Integrity see http://www.denison.edu/about/integrity.html

Fall 2009                                Taku SUZUKI
Mon/Wed 2:30-3:50PM                            International Studies Program
Knapp 407                                Office: Fellows 420, x-6528
Office Hours: M/W: 4-5:30pm, Tu: 4:30-5:30pm or by appointment        E-mail: suzukit@denison.edu


International Studies 100-02
The Making of the Modern World

Course description:
International Studies is an interdisciplinary exploration of global processes that shape broad international trends as well as specific historically and culturally embedded lives of people throughout the world.  As an academic field International Studies is relatively new, combining knowledge and methods from social sciences, humanities, and fine arts. The field emerged partly in response to a number of global developments involving the increased flows of people, information, and ideas in the second half of the twentieth century: labor migration, tourism, changing forms of production and consumption, cross-regional pandemic, human rights violation and advocacy, nuclear proliferation, expansion of consumer markets, developments in telecommunication technology and mass media, and global environmental problems. Understanding these realities and addressing related problems require scholars to transcend limitations imposed by traditional disciplinary boundaries.
There is a wide range of subjects that fall within the purview of inquiry in International Studies. In each of global processes associated with the mobility of people, capital, ideas and power transcend the boundaries of states and cultural groups; and issues of politics, economics, and culture intersect. The exploration of global processes is both historical and contemporary, requiring us to resort to sociological and historical approaches. These characteristics distinguish International Studies from other fields.  
This course introduces you to some of the basic concepts and analytical skills associated with International Studies.  It is the first core course in the International Studies major and it fulfills the “I: Interdisciplinary and World Issues” requirement of the General Education. Whether or not you decide to pursue International Studies major, this course will help you develop a more sophisticated understanding of how the world works and your place in it.

Course objectives:
At the end of this course, I want students to be able to:
1.    Offer political-economic and socio-cultural analyses of a given local event or circumstance in today’s world beyond its immediate context, and locate it within the long history of global interconnections.
2.    Predict political-economic and socio-cultural outcomes and implications of a particular local incident or situation within and beyond its immediate context, in light of the long history of global interconnections.
3.    Form an informed opinion about a controversial political, economic, and socio-cultural situation or decision in the world today that is not discussed in class.
4.    Examine what they can do to tackle the problems that they identify in the given local event or circumstance; formulate an answer to the question: If you are facing this situation, what would you do?

Books to purchase:
o    Wolf, Eric R. 1997. Europe and the People Without History. U of California P.
o    Anderson, Benedict 2006 [1991]. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. Verso.
o    Harvey, David 2005. A Brief History of Neoliberalism. Oxford UP.
o    Parreñas, Rhacel Salazar 2005. Children of Global Migration: Transnational Families and Gendered Woes. Stanford UP.
o    Lahiri, Jhumpa. 2000. Interpreter of Maladies. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

All books are available at the Denison University bookstore.

Articles from a wide variety of publications are available on Electronic Reserves (eRes) and electronic journals accessible through the library homepage and the course Blackboard page.  

Newspapers and periodicals:  
We will be talking about current events and how they relate to issues we are discussing in the course on a regular basis.  Therefore, it is imperative that you seek out good sources of information on global issues. There are many ways to access this information.  The New York Times is available locally. You can also sign up for free daily email from The New York Times.  International Studies scholars, however, are sensitive to issues of perspective and biases in news reporting and make every effort to check out multiple sources. The following websites may be helpful:

    http://allafrica.com (All Africa Global Media)
    http://mg.co.za (Daily Mail & Guardian from South Africa)
    http://www.global.nytimes.com (The New York Times Global Edition/International Herald Tribune)
    http://washingtonpost.com (The Washington Post)
http://english.people.com.cn/ (The People’s Daily, a Chinese government-run newspaper [English])    
http://news.bbc.co.uk (British Broadcasting Company)
    http://english.aljazeera.net/English  (Al Jazeera, a UAE cable news station [English])
    http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com (The Times of India [English])
    http://www.lemonde.fr (Le Monde, French national newspaper [French])
http://www.connexionfrance.com (The Connexion, French newspaper serving English speaking population)
http://www.hs.fi/english (Helsingin Sanomat a leading Finnish daily newspaper [English])
    http://www.japantimes.co.jp (The Japan Times [English])
    http://www.spiegel.de/international (Del Spiegel, a German weekly magazine [English])
http://www.theglobeandmail.com (The Globe and Mail, a Canadian national newspaper [English])
http://www.nationmultimedia.com (The Nation, a Thai national newspaper [English])
http://english.eluniversal.com (El Universal, a major Venezuelan newspaper [English])
http://www.buenosairesherald.com (Buenos Aires Herald, an English daily newspaper in Argentina)

This list is, of course, not exhaustive.  Google also provides an international news indexing service at http//news.google.com/ and click on “World.” Note that many newspapers in other countries have English language versions.

In addition, I would recommend that you peruse the following general interest periodicals:  Foreign Policy, The Atlantic Monthly, The Economist, The Nation, Foreign Affairs.  All are available in our library.


Course requirements:
1.    Attendance and participation: 10%
Regular and meaningful participation is an important part of this course.  Students are expected to be active participants in this course.  This means, at minimum that you will attend the course regularly, complete all reading and writing assignments in on time and that you will offer valuable contributions to our class discussions on a regular basis.  My assessment of participation also takes into account the level of student engagement.  Does a student demonstrate a genuine interest in the topics and conceptual issues raised by the course?  Does a student go beyond the syllabus to introduce new information (from regular reading of news periodicals, other courses, or independent reading) into our discussions?  Failure to regularly and meaningfully participate in class will negatively affect your grade.  See the attendance policy below.

2.    Ad-hoc short writing assignments (in-class and course Blackboard site): 15%
There are approximately fifteen short (usually two or three paragraphs-long) writing assignments presented during class (including midterm course evaluation, conducted during 10/21 class). These are quizzes, in-class essays, and responses to in-class discussion, film, or reading. You will submit your assignments before or upon the subsequent meeting in a form of either discussion board-posting, completed worksheet, or typed paper. Each assignment will be evaluated by three criteria: 1. It has been submitted in time; 2. It indicates that you have thoroughly competed the reading, film-viewing, or in-class writing assignment; 3. Your assignment shows that you have gone beyond merely answering the question or stating personal opinion by integrating multiple issues discussed in class. If you have satisfied 1 and 2, you will receive full (100%) credit; if you have satisfied all three, you will receive 120% credit; if you have failed to satisfy 1 or 2, you will receive 80% of full credit; if you have failed to satisfy 1 and 2, you will receive 50% of full credit.   

3.    Global media watch presentation: 5%
From the second week of the course, we will start each class by five-minute presentations by two students present an Internet news article from a foreign (outside of the USA) newspaper from the list above. Present the reported case (an incident or situation) to the classmates by showing the website. In addition to briefly providing the background of the news, provide your own explanation of WHY this incident or situation is taking place by offering two groups of causal factors: 1) political-economic background and 3) Cultural (non-political-economic) background. The presentation will be evaluated by whether the presenter provided: 1. a brief but useful context of the news; 2. clearly organized two different groups of causal factors; and 3. clarity in the presentation itself.

4.    Two essays: 20% (Essay #1: 8%; #2: 12%)
You will be required to submit two 3-4 page (double-spaced) essays on assigned topics. You will write these essays not as summaries of the readings and your responses to them, but instead as critical, insightful, and compelling arguments that synthesize issues raised by the readings, lectures, and class discussions. Your citation and reference listing must follow the APA format (See the library’s link: http://library.osu.edu/sites/guides/apagd.php). Each paper will count for 10% of your course grade.

5.    Group research project: 20%
Three students form a group, and each, as a team, must conduct a research on political, economic, socio-cultural causes and effects of one particular incident or development in one particular region or country. Each group will be assigned with a particular incident or situation in the regions around the world as their case-study; then the group will collectively research the case in order to identify its major causal factors and potential outcomes within and beyond the region by drawing on not only popular (media) sources but also academic (scholarly) sources.  Each member of the group, by applying some of the perspectives we have read about and discussed in class, must identify causes and potential effects in (1) politics; (2) economy; or (3) socio-cultural conditions. This assignment has two components:
a.    Poster/slide presentation: 5%
The groups will present their research projects in the form of poster session in the last two classes of the course (12/9 & 14). The poster presentation, which lasts about twelve minutes, must concisely summarize the assigned case, the group’s findings, and conclusions (9 minutes), and pose at least one relevant question to the rest of the class for further discussion on the subject (3 minutes). To prepare for the presentation, each group will collectively create a PowerPoint slide, in front of which the group will present. Each group will submit the PowerPoint slide file as the evidence of their collective work. The presentation will be graded by both evaluations of the PowerPoint slide themselves and of the quality of oral presentation.
b.    Research paper: 15%
Each member of the group must write his/her own individual paper, drawn from the materials the group collectively gathered. The paper needs to be 5-6 page-long, double-spaced, no larger than 12pts font, with no larger than 1.25 inch margins. It must also be proofread, as the quality of writing (grammar, spelling, etc.) will be taken into consideration for grading. The paper will be graded with letters.

6.    Midterm and final exams: 30% (Midterm: 12%; Final: 18%)
The midterm exam will involve short-answer (identification) questions about the readings and one essay question.  The final exam will be a take-home exam, in a form of essay questions.  The final exam questions will be distributed in the last week of class. The exams will be graded with points. If you miss a midterm exam due to illness or a family emergency, you must take a make-up midterm exam. Make-up exams must be taken no later than two days after the original exam date. Delayed final take-home exam will be downgraded each passing day after the due date by ten percentile of the exam grade.


Grading:
Class attendance and participation:                 10%
Ad-hoc writing assignments:                15%
Global media watch presentation:                  5%
Two essays:                        20%
Group research project:
Group poster presentation:                  5%
Final individual paper:                15%
Midterm exam:                        12%
Final exam:                         18%
                                                                   100%

Percentage        Letter Grade
94-            A
90-93.99            A-
87-89.99            B+
84-86.99            B
80-83.99            B-
77-79.99            C+
74-76.99            C
70-73.99            C-
67-69.99            D+
64-66.99            D
60-63.99            D-
-59.99            F


Course policies:
1.    Plagiarism and Academic Integrity:
Proposed and developed by Denison students, passed unanimously by DCGA and Denison’s faculty, the Code of Academic Integrity requires that instructors notify the Associate Provost of cases of academic dishonesty, and it requires that cases be heard by the Academic Integrity Board. Further, the code makes students responsible for promoting a culture of integrity on campus and acting in instances in which integrity is violated. Academic honesty, the cornerstone of teaching and learning, lays the foundation for lifelong integrity. Academic dishonesty is intellectual theft. It includes, but is not limited to, providing or receiving assistance in a manner not authorized by the instructor in the creation of work to be submitted for evaluation. This standard applies to all work ranging from daily homework assignments to major exams. Students must clearly cite any sources consulted—not only for quoted phrases but also for ideas and information that are not common knowledge. Neither ignorance nor carelessness is an acceptable defense in cases of plagiarism. It is the student’s responsibility to follow the appropriate format for citations. Students should ask their instructors for assistance in determining what sorts of materials and assistance are appropriate for assignments and for guidance in citing such materials clearly. For further information about the Code of Academic Integrity see http://www.denison.edu/about/integrity.html

2.    Class Attendance and Tardiness:
You are expected to attend class regularly and faithfully.  If you have a bona fide and documented excuse for missing class (illness, family emergency, scheduled athletic competition) please inform me in advance of the class that you will miss.  If you must miss class, please contact a classmate to review what you missed.  While I am happy to answer questions and clarify material you missed, I do not consider it my obligation to make up missed classes for individual students. Also, do not come to class late. Late arrivals are not only disruptive; they also convey a lack of respect for the course. Unexcused absence and tardiness will result in downgrading your attendance.

3.    Late Work:
In principle, I do not accept late work because it shows disrespect to your classmates. It is also unfair for you to receive extra time when your fellow students complete assignments on time, sometimes under duress. All assignments will be handed out well in advance of the due date and all savvy scholars know that one should never postpone assignments until the last minute. Unless instructed otherwise, all assignments must be submitted electronically to the “Assignments” page of the course Blackboard before the due date and time. When an assignment is due hand in what you have – partial work may receive partial credit.

4.    Writing Center:
The Center is a free resource available to all Denison students. Student writing consultants from many majors help writers one-on-one in all phases of the writing process, from deciphering the assignment, to discussing ideas, to developing an argument, to finalizing a draft. Because proofreading is a last step in that process, writers should leave plenty of time for getting their ideas right before expecting proofreading help.  Consultants also can help writers with personal documents, like job and internship applications. The Center is located on the fourth floor of Barney-Davis Hall; satellite locations are on the third floor of the Library (the Entry level) and the first floor of Fellows near the Computer Lab. Appointments between 4 p.m. and 9 p.m., Sunday through Thursday, can be made in the Barney location on-line at http://www.denison.edu/academics/writingcenter/index.html. The satellite locations are drop-in; check the website at http://www.denison.edu/writingctr/ for those hours.

5.    Accommodation for Students with Disabilities:
Any student who feels he or she may need an accommodation based on the impact of a disability should contact me privately as soon as possible to discuss his or her specific needs. I rely on the Academic Support & Enrichment Center in 102 Doane to verify the need for reasonable accommodations based on documentation on file in that office.


Class schedule:
eRes, hardcopy reserve articles, online journal articles, and online visual materials are marked with asterisk (*). eRes and online materials are accessible from the course Blackboard’s “Course Materials” page (eRes may require you to type in password: diaspora), and hardcopy reserve article is available at the circulation desk at the library.

PLEASE BRING THE ASSIGNED MATERIAL TO CLASS EACH DAY: This will allow us to consult the text during class.

1. Introduction / What is International Studies?
(8/31: M) Course overview / Introduction

(9/2: W) Debates in International Studies
*(eRes) Scholte, Jan Aart 2005. “Globalization Debates” (Pp. 13-48) in Globalization: A Critical Introduction. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 

(9/7: M) Approaches in International Studies: Political-economy and Cultural analysis
*(eRes) Gilpin, Robert. 2001. “The Nature of Political Economy” in Global Political Economy: Understanding the International Economic Order. Princeton University Press.
*(Online journal) Ho, Karen Z. 2009. “Disciplining Investment Bankers, Disciplining the Economy: Wall Street’s Institutional Culture of Crisis and the Downsizing of ‘Corporate America.’” American Anthropologist 111(2): 177-189.

(9/9: W) Approaches in International Studies: Cultural materialism
Wolf, “1: Introduction” (Pp. 1-7, 19-23), “3: Modes of Production”
*** Global media watch presentations start (two per class) ***

2. Globalization in the 15th-19th centuries: European expansion and “people without history”
(9/14: M)  Prelude to European-led globalization
Wolf, “2: The World in 1400” (Pp. 24-34, then a part on an assigned region), “4: Europe, Prelude to Expansion” (Pp. 101-108, then a part on an assigned region) in Europe.

(9/16: W) European expansion / Mini group presentations on the European encounters
Wolf, Pp. 129-130, and one chapter on assigned region from Chapters 5-8 in Europe.

(9/21: M) From mercantile capitalism to industrial capitalism
Wolf, Pp. 265-266, “9: Industrial Revolution” and “11: The Movement of Commodities” (Pp.310-318, plus assigned sections), and “12. New Laborers” (Pp.354-363, plus assigned sections) in Europe.

(9/23: W) Socio-cultural impacts of modern globalization
*(Hard copy available at the library reserve – NOT an eRes!!) Mintz, Sydney W. 1985. “Power” in Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History. London: Penguin Books.
Wolf, “Afterword” in Europe.
In-class film viewing: How Sweet It Is: The Story of Sugar (2003, Acorn Associates)

3. Spread of nation-state system in the 18-20th century
(9/28: M) What are “nation-states”?: Two theories
Anderson, “1: Introduction” and “3: Origin of national Consciousness” in Imagined.
*(Online journal) Smith, Anthony D. 2002. “When is a Nation?” Geopolitics 7(2): 5-32.

(9/30: W) First two waves: Creole and linguistic nationalisms
Anderson, “4: Creole Pioneers” and “5: Old Languages, New Models” in Imagined.
*** Essay #1: “Legacies of colonialism” due (6p.m. via Blackboard) ***
*** No Global media watch presentations ***

(10/5: M) Last two waves: Official and postcolonial nationalisms
    Anderson, “6: Official Nationalism and Imperialism” and “7: The Last Wave” in Imagined.

(10/7: W) “Technologies” of nationalism
Anderson, “10: Census, Map, Museum” and “11. Memory and Forgetting” in Imagined.

4. Neoliberal globalization in the 20th-21st centuries
(10/12: M) Rise of neoliberal ideology
Harvey, “Introduction” and “1: Freedom is Just Another Word” in Neoliberalism.

(10/14: W) Midterm exam
*** No Global media watch presentations ***

Fall Study Break!

(10/21: W) Neoliberal state / Midterm course evaluation
Harvey, “2: The Construction of Consent” and “3: The Neoliberal State” in Neoliberalism.

(10/26: M) Unbalanced neoliberalization
Harvey, “4: Uneven Geographical Developments” (selected sections) and “5: Neoliberalism with ‘Chinese Characteristics’” in Neoliberalism.
In-class film viewing: The Big Sellout (Florian Opitz, 2006) Part I

(10/28: W) Neoliberal globalization on trial 
Harvey, “6: Neoliberalism on Trial” and “7: Freedom’s Prospect” in Neoliberalism.
In-class film viewing: The Big Sellout Part II

(11/2: M) In search of postneoliberal futures I: Fair trade (Guest presenter from DUFTA)
*(Online journal) Fridell, Gavin 2006. “Fair Trade and Neoliberalism: Assessing Emerging Perspectives.” Latin American Perspectives 33(6): 8-28.
*(Online link via course Blackboard) Watch film: Just Coffee (Consumer International, 2006)
*** No Global media watch presentations ***

(11/4: W) In search of postneoliberal futures II: Social Entrepreneurship
*(Online journal) Alvord, Sarah H., David Brown, and Christine W. Letts 2004. “Social Entrepreneurship and Societal Transformation: An Exploratory Study.” Journal of Applied Behavioral Science 40(3): 260-282.
*(Online link via course Blackboard) Watch one of the PBS Frontline/World series on social entrepreneurs.

(11/9: M) In search of postneoliberal futures III: Role of global corporations (Guest presenters: Will Curto ’11, Rev. David M. Schilling, Program Director, Interfaith Center for Corporate Responsibility)
*Reading assignment TBA
*** No Global media watch presentations ***

5. Capturing globalization: Transnational Culture, Family, and Identity
(11/11: W) Globalization of love and care / Group research projects guideline
Parreñas, “Introduction: Gender and the Transnational Family” and “1: The Global Economy of Care” in Children.

(11/16: M) Transnational families
Parreñas, “2: The Dismal View of Transnational Households,” “3: Caring for the Family: Why Parents Leave the Philippines,” “5: The Gender Paradox: Recreating ‘the Family’ in Women’s Migration” in Children.
Film: Chain of Love (Marije Meerman, 2001): Part I
*** Essay #2: “Overcoming neoliberal globalization” due (6p.m. via Blackboard) ***
*** No Global media watch presentations ***

(11/18: W) Children of globalization
Parreñas, “6: Gendered Care Expectations: Children in Mother-Away Transnational Families” and “7: The Overlooked Second Generation: The Experience of Prolonged Separation in Two-Parent Migrant Families” in Children.
Film: Chain of Love: Part II

Thanksgiving Break!!

(11/30: M) Globalization and identities: Artist’s view
Lahiri, Interpreter. (Read the entire book)

(12/2: W) Theorizing globalization of culture and identity
*(eRes) Huntington, Samuel 2006 (1993). “The Clash of Civilizations?” (excerpt) in The Globalization Reader (2nd Ed.). Lechner, Frank J., and John Boli, eds. Malden, MA: Blackwell.
*(eRes) Hannerz, Ulf 2006 (1992). “The Global Ecumene” (excerpt) in The Globalization Reader (2nd Ed.).
*(eRes) Barber, Benjamin 2006 (1995). “Jihad and McWorld” in The Globalization Reader (2nd Ed.).

8. Research project presentations
(12/7: M) Preparation for the research poster presentations / Online course evaluation
Meet at Knapp 105 lab on 2:30pm; we will move to Fellows 100 lab at 3:30pm for course evaluation.

(12/9: W) Research project poster presentations
*** Final take-home exam distributed ***

(12/14: M) Research project poster presentations

(12/15: Tue)
*** Research project paper due (5p.m.) ***

(12/19: Sat, 4p.m.) Take home final exam due

 

Spring 2010                                Taku SUZUKI
Tue/Thurs 1:30-2:50PM                            International Studies Program
Fellows 212                                Office: Fellows 420, x-6528
Office Hours: M/W: Noon-1pm, T/Th: 4:30-5:30pm                E-mail: suzukit@denison.edu
or by appointment


International Studies 100-02
The Making of the Modern World

Course description:
International Studies is an interdisciplinary exploration of global processes that shape broad international trends as well as specific historically and culturally embedded lives of people throughout the world.  As an academic field International Studies is relatively new, combining knowledge and methods from social sciences, humanities, and fine arts. The field emerged partly in response to a number of global developments involving the increased flows of people, information, and ideas in the second half of the twentieth century: labor migration, tourism, changing forms of production and consumption, cross-regional pandemic, human rights violation and advocacy, nuclear proliferation, expansion of consumer markets, developments in telecommunication technology and mass media, and global environmental problems. Understanding these realities and addressing related problems require scholars to transcend limitations imposed by traditional disciplinary boundaries.
There is a wide range of subjects that fall within the purview of inquiry in International Studies. In each of global processes associated with the mobility of people, capital, ideas and power transcend the boundaries of states and cultural groups; and issues of politics, economics, and culture intersect. The exploration of global processes is both historical and contemporary, requiring us to resort to sociological and historical approaches. These characteristics distinguish International Studies from other fields.  
This course introduces you to some of the basic concepts and analytical skills associated with International Studies.  It is the first core course in the International Studies major and it fulfills the “I: Interdisciplinary and World Issues” requirement of the General Education. Whether or not you decide to pursue International Studies major, this course will help you develop a more sophisticated understanding of how the world works and your place in it.

Course objectives:
At the end of this course, I want students to be able to:
1.    Offer political-economic and socio-cultural analyses of a given local event or circumstance in today’s world beyond its immediate context, and locate it within the long history of global interconnections.
2.    Predict political-economic and socio-cultural outcomes and implications of a particular local incident or situation within and beyond its immediate context, in light of the long history of global interconnections.
3.    Form an informed opinion about a controversial political, economic, and socio-cultural situation or decision in the world today that is not discussed in class.
4.    Examine what they can do to tackle the problems that they identify in a given incident or circumstance; formulate an answer to the question: If you are facing this situation, what would you do?

Books to purchase:
o    Curtin, Philip D. 1998. The Rise and Fall of the Plantation Complex. (2nd ed.) Cambridge UP.
o    Anderson, Benedict 2006 [1991]. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. Verso.
o    Harvey, David 2005. A Brief History of Neoliberalism. Oxford UP.
o    Parreñas, Rhacel Salazar 2005. Children of Global Migration: Transnational Families and Gendered Woes. Stanford UP.
o    Tobin, Joseph, ed. 2004. Pikachu’s Global Adventure: The Rise and Fall of Pokémon. Duke UP.

All books are available at the Denison University bookstore.

Articles from a wide variety of publications are available on Electronic Reserves (eRes) and electronic journals accessible through the library homepage and the course Blackboard page.  

Newspapers and periodicals:  
We will be talking about current events and how they relate to issues we are discussing in the course on a regular basis.  Therefore, it is imperative that you seek out good sources of information on global issues. There are many ways to access this information.  The New York Times is available locally. You can also sign up for free daily email from The New York Times.  International Studies scholars, however, are sensitive to issues of perspective and biases in news reporting and make every effort to check out multiple sources. The following websites may be helpful:

    http://allafrica.com (All Africa Global Media)
    http://mg.co.za (Daily Mail & Guardian from South Africa)
    http://www.global.nytimes.com (The New York Times Global Edition/International Herald Tribune)
    http://washingtonpost.com (The Washington Post)
http://english.people.com.cn/ (The People’s Daily, a Chinese government-run newspaper [English])    
http://news.bbc.co.uk (British Broadcasting Company)
    http://english.aljazeera.net/English  (Al Jazeera, a UAE cable news station [English])
    http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com (The Times of India [English])
    http://www.lemonde.fr (Le Monde, French national newspaper [French])
http://www.connexionfrance.com (The Connexion, French newspaper serving English speaking population)
http://www.hs.fi/english (Helsingin Sanomat, a Finnish daily newspaper [English])
    http://www.japantimes.co.jp (The Japan Times [English])
    http://www.spiegel.de/international (Del Spiegel, a German weekly magazine [English])
http://www.theglobeandmail.com (The Globe and Mail, a Canadian national newspaper [English])
http://www.nationmultimedia.com (The Nation, a Thai national newspaper [English])
http://english.eluniversal.com (El Universal, a major Venezuelan newspaper [English])
http://www.buenosairesherald.com (Buenos Aires Herald, an English daily newspaper in Argentina)

This list is, of course, not exhaustive.  Google also provides an international news indexing service at http//news.google.com/ and click on “World.” Note that many newspapers in other countries have English language versions.

In addition, I would recommend that you peruse the following general interest periodicals:  Foreign Policy, The Atlantic Monthly, The Economist, The Nation, Foreign Affairs.  All are available in our library.


Course requirements:
1.    Attendance and participation: 10%
Regular and meaningful participation is an important part of this course.  Students are expected to be active participants in this course.  This means, at minimum that you will attend the course regularly, complete all reading and writing assignments in on time and that you will offer valuable contributions to our class discussions on a regular basis.  My assessment of participation also takes into account the level of student engagement.  Does a student demonstrate a genuine interest in the topics and conceptual issues raised by the course?  Does a student go beyond the syllabus to introduce new information (from regular reading of news periodicals, other courses, or independent reading) into our discussions?  Failure to regularly and meaningfully participate in class will negatively affect your grade.  See the attendance policy below.

2.    Ad-hoc short writing assignments (in-class and course Blackboard): 10%
There are approximately ten short (usually two or three paragraphs-long) writing assignments presented during class (including midterm course evaluation, conducted during 3/23 class). These may include quizzes, in-class essays, mini-research projects, and responses to in-class discussion, film, or reading. You will submit your assignments before or upon the subsequent meeting in a form of either discussion board-posting, completed worksheet, or typed paper. Each assignment will be evaluated by three criteria: 1. It has been submitted in time; 2. It indicates that you have not only completed but also given thoughtful response to the reading, film-viewing, or in-class writing assignment; 3. Your assignment shows that you have gone beyond merely answering the question or stating personal opinion by integrating multiple issues discussed in class. If you have satisfied 1 and 2, you will receive full (100%) credit; if you have satisfied all three, you will receive 120% credit; if you have failed to satisfy 1 or 2, you will receive 80% of full credit; if you have failed to satisfy 1 and 2 (but have submitted the assignment nonetheless), you will receive 50% of full credit.   

3.    Global media watch presentation: 5%
Throughout the course, students will hold five-minute presentations. The presentation consists of an analysis of an Internet news article from a foreign (non-USA-based) news media, listed above. Present the reported case (an incident or situation) to the classmates by showing the website. First, briefly provide the background of the news; second, set a research question to answer (What is it that you are trying to explain?); third, answer your own question by providing your own explanation: WHY is this incident or situation is taking place? To do so, offer two groups of causal factors: 1) political-economic background and 3) Socio-cultural (non-political-economic) background. The presentation will be evaluated by whether the presenter provided: 1. a brief but useful context of the news; 2. present a research question explicitly; 3. clearly organized two different groups of causal factors; and 4. clarity in the presentation itself.

4.    Three essays: 35% (Essay #1: 10%; #2: 12%; #3: 13%)
You will be required to submit three 3-4 page (double-spaced) essays on assigned topics. You will write these essays not as summaries of the readings and your responses to them, but instead as critical, insightful, and compelling arguments that synthesize issues raised by the readings, lectures, and class discussions. Second essay will be based on a film (TBA) shown in the Human Rights Film Festival held during February.

5.    Group research project: 25%
Three students form a group, and each, as a team, must conduct a research on political, economic, socio-cultural causes and effects of one particular incident or development in one particular region or country. Each group will be assigned with a particular incident or situation in the regions around the world as their case-study; then the group will collectively research the case in order to identify its major causal factors and potential outcomes within and beyond the region by drawing on not only popular (media) sources but also academic (scholarly) sources.  Each member of the group, by applying some of the perspectives we have read about and discussed in class, must identify causes and potential effects in (1) politics; (2) economy; or (3) socio-cultural conditions. This assignment has two components:
a.    Poster/slide presentation: 5%
The groups will present their research projects in the form of poster session in the last two classes of the course (4/27 & 29). The poster presentation, which lasts about twelve minutes, must concisely summarize the assigned case, the group’s findings, and conclusions (9 minutes), and pose at least one relevant question to the rest of the class for further discussion on the subject (3 minutes). To prepare for the presentation, each group will collectively create a PowerPoint slide, in front of which the group will present. Each group will submit the PowerPoint slide file as the evidence of their collective work. The presentation will be graded by both evaluations of the PowerPoint slide themselves and of the quality of oral presentation.
b.    Research paper: 15%
Each member of the group must write his/her own individual paper, drawn from the materials the group collectively gathered. The paper needs to be 5-6 page-long, double-spaced, no larger than 12pts font, with no larger than 1.25 inch margins. It must also be proofread, as the quality of writing (grammar, spelling, etc.) will be taken into consideration for grading. The paper will be graded with letters.

6.    Final exam: 20%
The exam will be a take-home exam, in a form of essay questions.  The exam questions will be distributed in the last week of class. The exams will be graded with points. Delayed submission of the final take-home exam will be downgraded each passing day after the due date by ten percentile of the exam grade.


Grading:
Class attendance and participation:                 10%
Ad-hoc writing assignments:                10%
Global media watch presentation:                  5%
Essays:                            35%
Group research project:
Group poster presentation:                  5%
Final individual paper:                15%
Final exam:                         20%
                                                                   100%

Percentage        Letter Grade
94-            A
90-93.99            A-
87-89.99            B+
84-86.99            B
80-83.99            B-
77-79.99            C+
74-76.99            C
70-73.99            C-
67-69.99            D+
64-66.99            D
60-63.99            D-
-59.99            F


Course policies:
1.    Plagiarism and Academic Integrity:
Proposed and developed by Denison students, passed unanimously by DCGA and Denison’s faculty, the Code of Academic Integrity requires that instructors notify the Associate Provost of cases of academic dishonesty, and it requires that cases be heard by the Academic Integrity Board. Further, the code makes students responsible for promoting a culture of integrity on campus and acting in instances in which integrity is violated. Academic honesty, the cornerstone of teaching and learning, lays the foundation for lifelong integrity. Academic dishonesty is intellectual theft. It includes, but is not limited to, providing or receiving assistance in a manner not authorized by the instructor in the creation of work to be submitted for evaluation. This standard applies to all work ranging from daily homework assignments to major exams. Students must clearly cite any sources consulted—not only for quoted phrases but also for ideas and information that are not common knowledge. Neither ignorance nor carelessness is an acceptable defense in cases of plagiarism. It is the student’s responsibility to follow the appropriate format for citations. Students should ask their instructors for assistance in determining what sorts of materials and assistance are appropriate for assignments and for guidance in citing such materials clearly. For further information about the Code of Academic Integrity see http://www.denison.edu/about/integrity.html

2.    Class Attendance and Tardiness:
You are expected to attend class regularly and faithfully.  If you have a bona fide and documented excuse for missing class (illness, family emergency, scheduled athletic competition) please inform me in advance of the class that you will miss.  If you must miss class, please contact a classmate to review what you missed.  While I am happy to answer questions and clarify material you missed, I do not consider it my obligation to make up missed classes for individual students. Also, do not come to class late. Late arrivals are not only disruptive; they also convey a lack of respect for the course. Unexcused absence and tardiness will result in downgrading your attendance.

3.    Late Work:
In principle, I do not accept late work because it shows disrespect to your classmates. It is also unfair for you to receive extra time when your fellow students complete assignments on time, sometimes under duress. All assignments will be handed out well in advance of the due date and all savvy scholars know that one should never postpone assignments until the last minute. Unless instructed otherwise, all assignments must be submitted electronically to the “Assignments” page of the course Blackboard before the due date and time. When an assignment is due hand in what you have – partial work may receive partial credit.

4.    Writing Center:
The Center is a free resource available to all Denison students. Student writing consultants from many majors help writers one-on-one in all phases of the writing process, from deciphering the assignment, to discussing ideas, to developing an argument, to finalizing a draft. Because proofreading is a last step in that process, writers should leave plenty of time for getting their ideas right before expecting proofreading help.  Consultants also can help writers with personal documents, like job and internship applications. The Center is located on the fourth floor of Barney-Davis Hall; satellite locations are on the third floor of the Library (the Entry level) and the first floor of Fellows near the Computer Lab. Appointments between 4 p.m. and 9 p.m., Sunday through Thursday, can be made in the Barney location on-line at http://www.denison.edu/academics/writingcenter/index.html. The satellite locations are drop-in; check the website at http://www.denison.edu/writingctr/ for those hours.

5.    Accommodation for Students with Disabilities:
Any student who feels he or she may need an accommodation based on the impact of a disability should contact me privately as soon as possible to discuss his or her specific needs. I rely on the Academic Support & Enrichment Center in 102 Doane to verify the need for reasonable accommodations based on documentation on file in that office.


Class schedule:
Hardcopy reserve articles, online journal articles, and online visual materials are marked with asterisk (*).Online materials are accessible from the course Blackboard’s “Course Materials” page, and course reserve material is available at the circulation desk at the library.

PLEASE BRING THE ASSIGNED MATERIAL TO CLASS EACH DAY: This will allow us to consult the text during class.

1. Introduction / What is International Studies? What is globalization?
(1/19: Tu) Course overview / Introduction

(1/21: Th) Approaches in International Studies: Political-economy analysis
*(Library course reserve) Fox, Danielle 2001. “Art” in Culture Works: The Political Economy of Culture, Maxwell, Richard (ed.), Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, Pp.22-59.

(1/26: Tu) Approaches in International Studies: Cultural analysis
*(Online journal) Ho, Karen 2009. “Disciplining Investment Bankers, Disciplining the Economy: Wall Street's Institutional Culture of Crisis and the Downsizing of ‘Corporate America.’” American Anthropologist 111(2): 177-189.

(1/28: Th) What is globalization?
*(Online journal) Scholte, Jan Aart 2002. “What is Globalization?: The Definitional Issue Again”  CSGR Working Paper 109/02. University of Warwick, ESRC Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation.
*(Online link via course Blackboard) Watch Mardi Gras: Made in China (David Redmon, 2008 [2005]). http://www.cultureunplugged.com/play/568/Mardi-Gras---Made-in-China

2. Colonialism and plantation: From feudalism to capitalism
(2/2: Tu)  From the Mediterranean to beyond
Curtin, “1: The Mediterranean origins,” 2: Sugar planting: from Cyprus to the Atlantic islands,” and “3: Africa and the slave trade” in Plantation Complex.
Mini-group presentations on the political-economy analysis of a popular cultural product

(2/4: Th) Mercantilism in the Americas: 16-17C
Curtin, “4: Capitalism, feudalism, and sugar planting in Brazil” and “5: Bureaucrats and free lances in Spanish America” in Plantation Complex.

(2/9: Tu) Impacts of colonialism and plantation: 17-18C
Curtin, “6: The sugar revolution and the settlement of the Caribbean,” “9: The slave trade and the West African economy in the eighteenth century,” “10: Atlantic commerce in the eighteenth century” in Plantation Complex.
In-class film viewing: How Sweet It Is: The Story of Sugar (2003, Acorn Associates), Part I

(2/11: Th) From slavery to indentured laborers: 19C
Curtin, “13: Readjustments in the nineteenth century” and “14: The end of slavery in the Americas” in Plantation Complex.
In-class film viewing: How Sweet It Is: The Story of Sugar (2003, Acorn Associates), Part II

3. Capitalism of nationalisms in the 18-20th century
(2/16: Tu) What are “nation-states”?: Two theories
Anderson, “1: Introduction” and “3: Origin of national Consciousness” in Imagined.
*(Online journal) Smith, Anthony D. 2002. “When is a Nation?” (Excerpt) Geopolitics 7(2): 5-32.

(2/18: Th) First two waves: Creole and linguistic nationalisms
Anderson, “4: Creole Pioneers” and “5: Old Languages, New Models” in Imagined.
*** Essay #1 due (7p.m., via course Blackboard) ***

(2/23: Tu) Last two waves: Official and postcolonial nationalisms
    Anderson, “6: Official Nationalism and Imperialism” and “7: The Last Wave” in Imagined.

(2/25: Th) “Technologies” of nationalism
Anderson, “10: Census, Map, Museum” and “11. Memory and Forgetting” in Imagined.

4. Neoliberal globalization in the 20th-21st centuries
(3/2: Tu) Rise of neoliberal ideology
Harvey, “Introduction,” “1: Freedom is Just Another Word” and “2: The Construction of Consent” in Neoliberalism.

(3/4: Th) Neoliberal state in theory and in practice
Harvey, “3: The Neoliberal State” in Neoliberalism.

(3/9: Tu) Unbalanced neoliberalization
Harvey, “4: Uneven Geographical Developments” (selected sections) and “5: Neoliberalism with ‘Chinese Characteristics’” in Neoliberalism.
In-class film viewing: The Big Sellout (Florian Opitz, 2006), Part I
*** Essay #2 due (7p.m., via course Blackboard) ***

(3/11: Th) Aftermaths of neoliberalization
Harvey, “6: Neoliberalism on Trial” and “7: Freedom’s Prospect” in Neoliberalism.
In-class film viewing: The Big Sellout (Florian Opitz, 2006), Part II

Spring Break!

(3/23: Tu) In search of postneoliberal futures I: Fair trade / Midterm course evaluation
*(Online journal) Fridell, Gavin 2006. “Fair Trade and Neoliberalism: Assessing Emerging Perspectives.” Latin American Perspectives 33(6): 8-28.
*(Online link via course Blackboard) Watch Just Coffee (Consumer International, 2006)

(3/25: Th) In search of postneoliberal futures II: Social Entrepreneurship / Guest lecture: Benjamin VanBuskirk, CEO of International Development Collaborative (Hilliard, Ohio)
*(Online journal) Alvord, Sarah H., David Brown, and Christine W. Letts 2004. “Social Entrepreneurship and Societal Transformation: An Exploratory Study.” Journal of Applied Behavioral Science 40(3): 260-282.
*(Online link via course Blackboard) Check IDC homepage (www.idcvillage.org)
*(Online link via course Blackboard) Watch one of the PBS Frontline/World series documentaries on social entrepreneurs.

5. Experiencing globalization I: Global popular culture
(3/30: Tu) Theorizing global popular culture
Tobin, “Introduction” and Iwabuchi, “How ‘Japanese’ is Pokémon?” in Pikachu.

(4/1: Th) Translating the global
Katsuno and Maret, “Localizing the Pokémon TV Series for the American Market” and Yano, “Panic Attacks: Anti-Pokémon Voices in Global Markets” in Pikachu.

(4/6: Tu) Rethinking the global popular culture
Tobin, “Conclusion: The Rise and Fall of the Pokémon Empire” in Pikachu.
*** Essay #3 due (7p.m., via course Blackboard) ***

6. Experiencing globalization II: Transnational families
(4/8: Th) Globalization of love and care / Group research projects guideline
Parreñas, “Introduction: Gender and the Transnational Family” and “1: The Global Economy of Care” in Children.

(4/13: Tu) Transnational families
Parreñas, “2: The Dismal View of Transnational Households” and “3: Caring for the Family: Why Parents Leave the Philippines,” in Children.
In-class film viewing: Chain of Love (Marije Meerman, 2001), Part I

(4/15: Th) Gender roles in transnational families
Parreñas, “5: The Gender Paradox: Recreating ‘the Family’ in Women’s Migration” and “6: Gendered Care Expectations: Children in Mother-Away Transnational Families” in Children.
In-class film viewing: Chain of Love (Marije Meerman, 2001), Part II

(4/20: Tu) Children of globalization / Online course evaluation (We will move to Fellows 100 at 2:30p.m.)
Parreñas, “7: The Overlooked Second Generation: The Experience of Prolonged Separation in Two-Parent Migrant Families” and “Conclusion” in Children.

8. Research project presentations
(4/22: Th) Preparation for the research poster presentations

(4/27: Tu) Research project poster presentations

(4/29: Th) Research project poster presentations
*** Final take-home exam distributed ***

(4/30: Fr)
*** Research project individual paper due (7p.m., via course Blackboard) ***

(5/7: Fr)
*** Take-home final exam due (4p.m., via course Blackboard) ***

 

Gary L. Baker    
Fellows 419, ext. 6213;  #6393 (program assistant)
Email: bakerg@denison.edu

International Studies 100.01:
The Making of the Modern World
Spring 2010

    International Studies is the interdisciplinary exploration of global processes that shape broad international trends as well as the specific historically and culturally embedded lives of people throughout the world.  As a field International Studies is relatively new, combining knowledge and methods from the social sciences, the humanities and the fine arts.  The field emerged in the late 1970s partly in response to a number of global developments involving the increased mobility of people associated with political turmoil, labor and tourism; shifting forms of production and finance; the HIV/AIDS pandemic; human rights regimes; nuclear proliferation; expansion of consumer markets and commoditization; and developments in technology and global media, among others.  Understanding these issues and, in some cases addressing related problems, required scholars to transcend limitations imposed by disciplinary boundaries.
    There is a wide range of subjects that fall within the purview of International Studies such as the meanings and financial implications of cultural flows associated with the global proliferation of McDonald’s or Bollywood movies, to the changing composition of the global manufacturing workforce, to the shifting balance of power between states and transnational organizations. This list is merely suggestive. In each of these cases global processes associated with the mobility of people, capital, ideas and power transcend the boundaries of states and cultural groups; here issues of politics, economics and culture intersect.  The exploration of global processes is both historical and contemporary.  These characteristics distinguish International Studies from other fields.
    This course will introduce you to some of the basic concepts and analytical skills associated with International Studies.  It is the first core course in the International Studies major and it fulfills the “Interdisciplinary and world Issues” requirement of the General Education Program.  Whether or not you decide to pursue an International Studies major, this course will help you develop a more sophisticated understanding of how the world works and your place in it.

Required Readings:
    Books – The following books are available for purchase from the University bookstore:
Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities
    Daphne Berdahl, Where the World Ended
    David Harvey, A Brief History of Neoliberalism
    Sidney Mintz, Sweetness and Power    
    Leslie Page Moch, Moving Europeans: Migration in Western Europe since 1650
Orhan Pamuk, Snow

PLEASE BRING THE ASSIGNED MATERIAL TO CLASS EACH DAY – This will allow us to consult the text during class.

    Newspapers and Periodicals:  In the context of group work we will be talking about current events and how they relate to issues / readings we are discussing in the course on a regular basis.  Therefore, it is important that you seek out good sources of information on global issues.  There are many ways to access this information.  The New York Times is available locally. You can also sign up for free daily email from The New York Times.  International Studies scholars, however, are sensitive to issues of perspective and biases in news reporting and make every effort to check out multiple sources.  The following websites may be helpful:

    Http://allafrica.com
    http://mg.co.za [Daily Mail & Guardian from S. Africa]
    http://www.nytimes.com
    http://washingtonpost.com
    http://news.bbc.co.uk
    http://aljazeera.net
    http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com
    http://www.lemonde.fr
    http://www.lexpress.fr/
    http://www.utm.edu/departments/french/french/ (choose the link for press, radio and television
    http://www.spiegel.de/
    http://www.zeit.de/
    http://lanic.utexas.edu/ (choose the link “Media and Communication”)

This list is, of course, not exhaustive.  Google also provides an international news indexing service at http//news.google.com/ and click on “World.” Note that many newspapers in other countries have English language versions.

In addition, you might peruse the following periodicals:  Foreign Policy, The Atlantic Monthly, The Economist, The Nation, The New York Review of Books.  All are available in our library.

Required Films:
    I like to use films in this course because not only do they give us the opportunity to think about how global processes are experienced by real people in particular historical, geographical and cultural contexts, they also convey in visual terms key concepts and relationships that we will be reading about. Mardi Gras Made in China exceeds the time allotted for our regular class, so it is scheduled for evening viewing. It will be shown at 7:00 p.m. the evening before we discuss it.  The others are meant for in-class viewing.
    Taxi to Timbuktu (February 5)
    All in this Tea  (March 12)
    Mardi Gras Made in China (April 1)

Course Requirements:
Participation (5%) and reading responses (12%) – Regular and meaningful participation is an important part of this course. This means that you will attend the course regularly, complete all reading and hand in all writing assignments on time and that you will offer valuable contributions to our class discussions on a regular basis.  My assessment of participation also takes into account the level of student engagement.  Does a student demonstrate a genuine interest in the topics and conceptual issues raised by the course?  Does a student go beyond the syllabus to introduce new information (from regular reading of news periodicals, other courses, or independent reading) into our discussions?  Truly exemplary participation will also demonstrate these characteristics. The participation grade breaks down accordingly, participated rarely 1%, sometimes 2%, frequently 4% or always 5%. To encourage your participation I will ask you to submit six 400-500-word responses to posted reading questions throughout the semester. Due days for these responses are always Mondays. Three of these responses must be completed on or before mid semester (3/8).  Responses that are off mark, show no sign of familiarity with the reading, fail to cite readings, or are unreflective will receive partial credit. Reading responses will each count for 2% of your final grade.

Class Attendance and Tardiness (4%) - You are expected to attend class regularly.  If you have a bona fide and documented excuse for missing class (illness, family emergency, scheduled athletic competition) please inform me in advance of the class that you will miss.  More than one unexcused absence during the semester will count for .5% taken from your final grade for up to two such absences.  Thereafter I will take 1% off your grade for every absence.  If you must miss class, please contact a classmate to review what you missed. Do not come to class late.  Late arrivals are not only disruptive they also convey a lack of respect for the course.  Consistent tardiness will be considered an absence. Should you use lose the entire 4% I will begin to subtract from participation.

Group Presentations (6%): On February 8th I will create 5 working groups. Within the framework of these groups you will explain a current event (defined as an event that has occurred on the national or international level in the past month) through / via employing the reading we discussed in the last session. These presentations will take place at the beginning of class and last approximately 10-15 minutes.

Hourly and Final Exams – The hourly exams will primarily involve short-answer questions about the readings. Material for these exams can be found in the readings and involves some rote learning. Questions for the final will be distributed one week in advance. The final exam will be a take-home exam.  (Hourly exams are worth 17% each while the final is worth 10%)

Essay – Within the first few weeks of the course you will be asked to write an essay in response to (a) question(s) addressing Snow by Orhan Pamuk. (This essay counts for 10% of your final grade.)

Research Project – Details of this assignment will be distributed a few weeks into the course. (This project counts for 15% of your final grade.)

Course Policies:
Plagiarism – I expect all students to conduct research and writing honestly and to reference appropriately all sources consulted.  Those of us who engage in research and writing take plagiarism very seriously.  According to our student handbook, plagiarism is defined as follows: “In any academic assignment, plagiarism involves the use of data, ideas, or works of others without proper use of established or designated forms of acknowledgment, such as footnotes, quotations, bibliographies, etc. Neither ignorance nor carelessness is an acceptable defense in cases of plagiarism.”  All suspected instances of plagiarism will be referred to the Associate Provost’s office for investigation and adjudication.  Just as the expanding Internet provides many opportunities for plagiarism, it also provides many tools for professors to use to check for plagiarism.

For further information about the Code of Academic Integrity see http://www.denison.edu/about/integrity.html

Late Work –there is no such thing because I do not accept late work. It shows disrespect to your classmates because it is unfair for you to receive extra time when your fellow students complete assignments on time, sometimes under duress.  All assignments will be handed out well in advance of the due date and all savvy scholars know that one should never postpone assignments until the last minute.  All assignments must be submitted in class on the day they are due.  No electronically submitted assignments will be accepted. When an assignment is due hand in what you have – partial work receives partial credit.

Accommodation for Students with Disabilities - Any student who feels he or she may need an accommodation based on the impact of a disability should contact me privately as soon as possible to discuss his or her specific needs.  I rely on the Academic Support
and Enrichment Center in 104 Doane to verify the need for reasonable accommodations based on documentation on file in their office.

As the convener of this class and as a member of the Denison community this is the context in which this class operates:
Campus Compact
Denison University is a community where individuals respect one another and their environment. Each of us possesses a full range of rights and responsibilities and foremost among these is a commitment to treat each other and our environment with unconditional respect. With mutual consideration and trust, our community will thrive as a place of liberal learning and humane life.

In general, if you have questions, concerns or problems related to the course, it is always better to ask in advance than to allow the issue to grow over time.


Schedule:
Date    Topic    Assignment    Due/Notes
Jan 18        Introduction    Read syllabus / Start Snow   
Jan 20        Enloe, “Tracking the Militarized Global Sneaker” (on BB)   
Jan 22        Pamuk 3-93    Plan for lengthy reading assignment ahead
Jan 25        Martin Luther King Celebration    Attend program for MLK celebration
Jan 27        Pamuk 94-236   
Jan 29        Pamuk 237-316   
Feb 1         Pamuk 317-413    Hand out essay assignment
Feb 3         Summary    Pamuk 414-463   

Feb 5         Film to be viewed in class    Taxi to Timbuktu    Plan for lengthy reading assignment ahead
Feb 8         People on the move    (create groups)
Discussion of film    Essay due in class
Feb 10        Moch chaps 1 & 2   
Feb 12        Moch chap 3    Group presentation
Feb 15        Moch chap 4    Group presentation
Feb 17        Moch chap 5    Hand out research project due April 23rd.
Group presentation
Feb 19         Nations and Nationalism    Pei, “The Paradoxes of American Nationalism” Foreign Policy May/June 2003    Group presentation
Feb 22         The Imagined Community    Anderson Introduction and chap 10   
Feb 24         Library instruction     Research project     Library LL 102
Feb 26         Anderson, chap. 2    Group presentation
March 1      Anderson, chap. 3    Group presentation
March 3      Anderson, chap.  5    Group presentation

March 5       Anderson, chap. 7    Group presentation
March 8       Summary - Anderson    Group presentation
March 10     Hourly: Nationalism, national identity and migration   
March 12     Political economy and commodities    All in this Tea in class   
March 22     Mintz chap 2   
March 24     Mintz chap. 3    Group presentation
March 26     Mintz chap. 4    Group presentation
March 29     Discussion of Mintz    Progress report on papers    Group presentation
March 31     neoliberalism    Harvey Chap 1   
April 1 (Thursday)    Film    Mardi Gras Made in China 7:00 PM showing   
April 2          Discussion of Film   
April 5          Harvey Chap 3    Group presentation
April 7          Harvey Chap 4    Group presentation
April 9          Harvey Chap 5    Group presentation
April 12        Harvey Chap 6    Group presentation
April 14        Robert Fogel “$123,000,000,000,000”
Foreign Policy Jan/Feb 2010    Group presentation
April 16        Hourly: Political economy and commodities   
April 19        Borders and Identity: the two Germanys    Berdahl  “Introduction” and chapter 1

April 21        Berdahl chap 2 and 3   

April 23    Hand in research project and evaluate course    Course evaluations in Slayter 409 10:00 AM    Research Projects due
April 26        Berdahl, chap 4   
April 28        Berdahl chap 5   

April 30        Berdahl chaps 6 and 7   
May 3    Summary discussion    Receive final exam questions   
Exam letter B
May 10            Final due by 4 pm Fellows 419 Hard copy only

 

The Making of the Modern World, INTL-100-01
Tuesdays and Thursdays 10-11:20, Knapp 301
Denison University, Spring 2010

Instructor: Isis Nusair
Email: nusairi@denison.edu
Office: Knapp Hall 210C, Phone: 587-85373
Office Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays 4:30-6 pm

Course Description
This interdisciplinary course introduces students to some of the basic concepts and analytical skills associated with International Studies as an interdisciplinary field that explores local and global processes that shape broad international trends and its effects on human lives. Students in this course will be introduced to both a history of the ways of seeing the world and critical views of these methods. Moving into the contemporary era, the course will encourage participants to think about the connections between the past and the present, the demands of a “new world order,” and how we view local and global processes. The course traces local and global developments that involve the shifting balance of power between states and transnational organizations, increased mobility of people, shifting forms of production and finance, expansion of consumer markets and commoditization, sustainability and development, and the media. In each of these cases we will trace how local and global processes associated with the mobility of people, capital, ideas and power transcend the boundaries of states and cultural groups, and how issues of politics, economics and culture intersect. Our exploration of local and global processes is both historical and contemporary. The course encourages students to become more critical about what is said in popular media about the world, and understand local and global processes and the interconnectedness of the world in which we live.

This course is the first core course in the International Studies major and it fulfills the “Interdisciplinary and world Issues” requirement of the General Education Program. Whether or not you decide to pursue an International Studies major, this course will help you develop a more sophisticated understanding of how the world works and your place in it.  

Class Requirements
Students are expected to read the course material, attend screening sessions, and participate in class discussion.  The course requirements also include 1 class presentation, 3 assignments, and a final exam. The final exam constitutes 40% of the evaluation, the assignments constitute 30% of the evaluation, the class presentation constitutes 10% of the evaluation, and class participation constitutes 20% of the evaluation. Separate guidelines explaining these assignments will be posted on Blackboard.

Course Policies
•    Plagiarism: Students and faculty at Denison University and the Department of International Studies are committed to academic integrity and will not tolerate any violation of this principle.  Academic honesty is the cornerstone of teaching and learning. Academic dishonesty is, in most cases, intellectual theft.  It includes, but is not limited to, providing or receiving assistance in a manner not authorized by the instructor in the creation of work to be submitted for evaluation.  This standard applies to all work ranging from daily homework assignments to major exams. Students must clearly cite any sources consulted, not only for quoted phrases but also for ideas and information that are not common knowledge.  Neither ignorance nor carelessness is an acceptable defense in cases of plagiarism.  It is the student's responsibility to follow the appropriate citation format.  As is indicated in Denison's Student Handbook, available through www.mydenison.edu, instructors must refer every act of academic dishonesty to the Associate Provost, and violations may result in failure in the course, suspension, or expulsion. See:
http://www.denison.edu/studentaffairs/handbook/article7.html
•    Disability: Any student who feels he or she may need an accommodation based on the impact of a disability should contact me privately as soon as possible to discuss his or her specific needs.  I rely on the Academic Support & Enrichment Center in 104 Doane to verify the need for reasonable accommodations based on documentation on file in that office.
•    Attendance: You are expected to attend class regularly. More than three absences during the semester will seriously affect your final grade.
•    Evaluation: Students are required to write midterm and final evaluations of their performance in the class.
•    Printing: All class material should be printed double-sided in order to save on paper and protect the environment.

Reading Material
•    Reading materials will be available at the bookstore and on ERES. Various handouts and supplementary material will be distributed in class and posted on Blackboard.
•    The ERES password for the course is localglobalflows

Required Books
•    Anderson, Benedict. 2007. Imagined Communities. London: Verso.
•    Greig, Alastair, David Hulme, and Mark Turner. 2007. Challenging Global Inequality: Development Theory and Practice in the 21st Century. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
•    Off, Carol. 2008. Bitter Chocolate: The Dark Side of the World’s Most Seductive Sweet. New York: The New York Press.
•    Smith, Dan. 2008. The Penguin State of the World Atlas. London: Penguin Books.
•    Wolf, Eric, R. 1982. Europe and the People without History. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Recommended Books
•    Ahmed, Leila. 1999. Border Passage: A Woman’s Journey from Cairo to America. New York: Penguin Books.
•    Barndt, Deborah. 2002. Tangled Routes: Women, Work and Globalization on the Tomato Trail. New York: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
•    Bayly, C. A. 2004. The Birth of the Modern World. Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishing.
•    Conrad, Joseph. 1999. Heart of Darkness. New York: The Modern Library.
•    Harvey, David. 2005. A Brief History of Neoliberalism. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
•    Khalidi, Rashid. 2004. Resurrecting Empire: Western Footprints and America’s Perilous Path in the Middle East. Boston: Beacon Press.
•    Mintz, W. Sidney.  1986. Sweetness and Power. New York: Penguin Books.
•    Parrenas, Rhacel Salazar. 2001. Servants of Globalization: Women, Migration and Domestic Work. Stanford: Stanford University Press.  
•    Rivoli, Pietra. 2005. The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy. New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
•    Rothenberg, Paula S. 2006. Beyond Borders: Thinking Critically About Global Issues. New York: Worth Publishers.
•    Stiglitz, Joseph. 2005. Making Globalization Work. London: W. W. Norton & Company.
•    Stiglitz, Joseph. 2003. Globalization and Its Discontents. New York: W. W. Norton & Company.

Newspapers and Periodicals
We will discuss current events on a regular basis. Therefore, it is imperative that you seek out good sources of information on global issues. Savvy International Studies scholars are sensitive to issues of perspective and biases in news reporting and make every effort to check out multiple sources. The following websites may be helpful:
•    http://allafrica.com
•    http://mg.co.za
•    http://english.aljazeera.net/HomePage
•    http://jordantimes.com/thu/index.htm
•    http://www.dailystar.com.lb/home2.asp
•    http://www.haaretz.com
•    http://www.jpost.com
•    http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com
•    http://english.people.com.cn/
•    http://www.nationmultimedia.com
•    http://www.japantimes.co.jp
•    http://www.global.nytimes.com
•    http://www.nytimes.com
•    http://www.washingtonpost.com
•    http://www.theglobeandmail.com
•    http://news.bbc.co.uk
•    http://www.guardian.co.uk
•    http://www.independent.co.uk
•    http://www.connexionfrance.com
•    http://www.liberation.fr
•    http://www.lemonde.fr
•    http://lexpress.fr
•    http://speigel.de
•    http://zeit.de
•    http://www.hs.fi/english
•    http://english.eluniversal.com
•    http://www.buenosairesherald.com

Google also provides an international news indexing service at http://news.google.com/
and click on “World.”

National Public Radio is a great source of information at http://www.npr.org/
So is Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) at http://www.pbs.org/
PBS’ The News Hour, Frontline and Wide Angle are some of the programs that you might want to watch on a regular basis.

In addition, I would recommend that you regularly pursue the following periodicals (all are available at the library): Foreign Policy, The Atlantic Monthly, The Economist, The Nation, and The New Yorker.
Films
•    Chain of Love, Mariki Meerm, 2001, 50m.
•    Food Beware: The French Organic Revolution, Jean-Paul Jaud, 2008, 105m.
•    Food Inc, Magnolia Pictures, Participant Media and Rive, 2008, 94m.
•    How Sweet It Is: The Story of Sugar, Acorn Associates, 2003, 26m.
•    Mardi Grass: Made in China, David Redman, 2004, 72 minutes.
•    No Impact Man: The Documentary, Laura Gabbert and Justin Schein, 2009, 90m.
•    Slavery: A Global Investigation, Kate Blewett and Brian Woods, 2002, 78m.
•    Why We Fight, Eugene Jarecki, 2006, 99m.

Recommended films:
•    Apocalypse Now, Francis Ford Coppola, 1989, 153 minutes.
•    Bread and Roses, Ken Loach, 2000, 110 minutes.
•    Four Women of Egypt, Tahani Rached, 1999, 90 minutes.
•    The Global Assembly Line, Lorraine Gray, 1986, 60 minutes.
•    State of Fear, Pamela Yates, Paco de Onis and Peter Kinoy, 2005, 94 minutes.
•    Supersize Me, Morgan Spurlock, 2004, 96 minutes.


Class Schedule
Jan 19: Introduction and Housekeeping

Jan 21: Maps, Statistics, and the Politics of Naming
•    Turnbull, David. 2006. “The Function of Maps,” pp. 7-15 (on ERES).
•    Monk, Janice. 2006.  “Are Things What They Seem to Be? Reading Maps and Statistics,” pp. 16-26 (on ERES).
•    Lewis, Martin W. and Karen E. Wigen. 1997. “The Myth of Continents,” pp. 2-13 (on ERES).

Jan 26: Making Connections
•    Read pages 3-11, 24-34 and 73-88, and 101-110 in Wolf.

Jan 28: The Slave Trade
•    Read pages 195-231 in Wolf.

Feb 2: The Industrial Revolution
•    Read pages 267-295 in Wolf.

Feb 4: The Movement of Commodities
•    Read pages 310-353 in Wolf.

Feb 9: The New Laborers
•    Read pages 354-383 in Wolf.

Feb 11: Liquid Gold
•    Read chapters 1, 2 and 3 in Bitter Chocolate.
•    Paper #1 due


Feb 16: The Politics of Chocolate
•    Read chapters 4, 5 and 6 in Bitter Chocolate.

Feb 18: Unsweet Chocolate
•    Read chapters 7, 8 and 9 in Bitter Chocolate.

Feb 23: Bittersweet Victory
•    Read chapters 10, 11 and 12 and Epilogue in Bitter Chocolate

Feb 25: Class presentations

March 2:  Class presentations

March 4: Local/Global Inequality
•    Read chapters 1 and 2 in Challenging Global Inequality.

March 9: Measuring Development
•    Read chapters 3 and 4 in Challenging Global Inequality.

March 11: Systems of Inequality
•    Read chapters 5 and 6 in Challenging Global Inequality.

March 13-21: Midterm Break

March 23: Globalization and Inequality
•    Read chapters 7 and 8 in Challenging Global Inequality.

March 25: Challenging Inequalities
•    Read chapters 9 in Challenging Global Inequality.

March 30: Power to the People
•    Read chapters 10 and 11 in Challenging Global Inequality.

April 1: Imagined Communities
•    Read chapters 1 and 2 in Imagined Communities.
•    Paper #2 due

April 6: The Origins of National Consciousness
•    Read chapters 3 and 5 in Imagined Communities.

April 8: Official Nationalism and Imperialism
•    Read chapters 6 and 7 in Imagined Communities.

April 13: Patriotism and Racism
•    Read chapters 8 and 9 in Imagined Communities.

April 15: Census, Map, Museum
•    Read chapters 10-11 in Imagined Communities.


April 20: So What is Culture?
•    Sewell, William, Jr. 1999. “The Concept(s) of Culture,” pp. 35-61 (on ERES).
•    Hannerz, Ulf. 2004. “The Global Ecumene,” pp. 3-35 (on ERES).
•    Class evaluation at Fellows 100 from 10-10:20 am.
•    Paper #3 due

April 22: Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving?
•    Inda, Jonathan Xavier. 2008. “Tracking Global Flows,” pp. 3-35 (on ERES).
•    Abu-Lughod, Lila. 2002.  “Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving? Anthropological Reflections on Cultural Relativism and Its Others.” American Anthropologist 104(3), 783-790 (on Blackboard).

April 27: The Making of Global Citizenship
•    Larison, Thomas and David Skidmore.2003. “Introduction: The Political Economy of International Affairs,” pp. 1-16 (on ERES).
•    Falk, Richard. 1993. “The Making of Global Citizenship,” pp. 39-50 (on ERES).

April 29: General Overview

May 5: Final exam due in my office at Knapp 210C by 4 pm.




 

Mon., Sept. 6 Global Citizenship

Reading:

Richard Falk, “The Making of Global Citizenship”

Richard Falk, “Globalization-from-Below: An Innovative Politics of Resistance”

Wed., Sept. 8 Global Ecumene

Reading: Ulf Hannerz, “The Global Ecumene”

Fri., Sept. 10 Global Flows

Reading:

Jonathan Xavier Inda and Renato Rosaldo, “Tracking Global Flows”

Mon., Sept. 13

First 4-page essay due in class

INTERNATIONAL STUDIES TOOL-BOX

Mon., Sept. 13 What is Political-Economy?

Reading:

Thomas Lairson and David Skidmore, “Introduction: The Political Economy of International Affairs,” from International Political Economy, pp. 1-16

Wed., Sept. 15 What is Culture?

Reading:

William H. Sewell, Jr., “The Concept(s) of Culture”

Fri., Sept. 17 Combining Political-Economy and Culture

Reading:

Danielle Fox, “Art”

Mon., Sept. 20

In-class content quiz

Wed., Sept. 22

Fri., Sept. 24

No class

SOME KEY CHARACTERISTICS OF THE “MODERN” WORLD

The Rise of the Concept of the Nation State

Mon., Sept. 27

Reading:

Smith, “When is a Nation?”

Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, pp. xi-xv, 1-22, 207-229

Wed., Sept. 29

Reading:

Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, pp. 47-82

Fri., Oct. 1

Reading:

Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, pp. 83-140

Mon., Oct. 4

Reading:

Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, pp. 141-162

Wed., Oct. 6

Reading:

Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, pp. 163-186

Fri., Oct. 8

Reading:

Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, pp. 187-206

The Rise of Commodity Capitalism

Mon., Oct. 11

Reading:

Sidney Mintz, Sweetness and Power, pp. xv-xxx, 3-19

Wed., Oct. 13

Reading:

Sidney Mintz, Sweetness and Power, pp. 19-73

Fri., Oct. 15

Reading:

Sidney Mintz, Sweetness and Power, pp. 74-150

Mon., Oct. 18

No class. Fall study break.

Wed., Oct. 20

Reading:

Sidney Mintz, Sweetness and Power, pp. 151-186

Fri., Oct. 22

Reading:

Sidney Mintz, Sweetness and Power, pp. 187-214

Mon., Oct. 25

Second 4-page essay due in class

Indigenous Peoples, Heritage, and Intellectual Property Rights

Mon., Oct. 25

Reading:

Michael F. Brown, Who Owns Native Culture?, pp. ix-xiii, 1-42

Wed., Oct. 27

Reading:

Michael F. Brown, Who Owns Native Culture?, pp. 43-68

Fri., Oct. 29

Reading:

Michael F. Brown, Who Owns Native Culture?, pp. 69-94

Mon., Nov. 1

No class

Wed., Nov. 3

Reading:

Michael F. Brown, Who Owns Native Culture?, pp. 95-143

Fri., Nov. 5

Reading:

Michael F. Brown, Who Owns Native Culture?, pp. 144-204

Mon., Nov. 8

Reading:

Michael F. Brown, Who Owns Native Culture?, pp. 205-52

Tues., Nov. 9

Third 4-page essay due by 4:00 p.m. in my office, 310 Knapp

Globalization and Violence

Wed., Nov. 10

Reading:

Arjun Appadurai, Fear of Small Numbers, pp. ix-xiii, 1-14

Fri., Nov. 12

Reading:

Arjun Appadurai, Fear of Small Numbers, pp. 15-48

Mon., Nov. 15

Reading:

Arjun Appadurai, Fear of Small Numbers, pp. 49-86

Wed., Nov. 17

Reading:

Arjun Appadurai, Fear of Small Numbers, pp. 87-114

Fri., Nov. 19

Reading:

Arjun Appadurai, Fear of Small Numbers, pp. 115-38

THANKSGIVING BREAK

Nov. 20-28

THE MODERN GLOBAL WORLD: A FAMILY PERSPECTIVE

Mon., Nov. 29

Reading:

Mira Kamdar, Motiba’s Tattoos, pp. xi-xxv, 1-72

Wed., Dec. 1

Reading:

Mira Kamdar, Motiba’s Tattoos, pp. 73-128

Fri., Dec. 3

12:30-12:50: In-class on-line student evaluations, Fellows 100

Mon., Dec. 6

Reading:

Mira Kamdar, Motiba’s Tattoos, pp. 129-178

Wed., Dec. 8

Reading:

Mira Kamdar, Motiba’s Tattoos, pp. 179-244

Fri., Dec. 10

Reading:

Mira Kamdar, Motiba’s Tattoos, pp. 245-70

Mon., Dec. 13 End-of-semester Reflections and Discussions

Thurs., Dec. 16

2:00 - 4:00 p.m.: final exam

Disability

Any student who feels he or she may need an accommodation based on the impact of a disability should contact me privately as soon as possible to discuss his or her specific needs. I rely on the Academic Support and Enrichment Center in Doane 102 to verify the need for reasonable accommodations based on documentation on file in that office.

Writing Center

The Center is a free resource available to all Denison students. Student writing consultants from many majors help writers one-on-one in all phases of the writing process, from deciphering the assignment, to discussing ideas, to developing an argument, to finalizing a draft. Because proofreading is a last step in that process, writers should leave plenty of time for getting their ideas right before expecting proofreading help. Consultants also can help writers with personal documents, like job and internship applications. The Center is located on the fourth floor of Barney-Davis Hall; satellite locations are on the third floor of the Library (the Entry level) and the first floor of Fellows near the Computer Lab. Appointments between 4 p.m. and 9 p.m., Sunday through Thursday, can be made in the Barney location on-line at http://www.denison.edu/academics/writingcenter/index.html. The satellite locations are drop-in; check the website at http://www.denison.edu/writingcenter/ for those hours.

ACADEMIC INTEGRITY AT DENISON UNIVERSITY

Proposed and developed by Denison students, passed unanimously by DCGA and Denison’s faculty, the Code of Academic Integrity requires that instructors notify the Associate Provost of cases of academic dishonesty, and it requires that cases be heard by the Academic Integrity Board. Further, the code makes students responsible for promoting a culture of integrity on campus and acting in instances in which integrity is violated.

Academic honesty, the cornerstone of teaching and learning, lays the foundation for lifelong integrity. Academic dishonesty is intellectual theft. It includes, but is not limited to, providing or receiving assistance in a manner not authorized by the instructor in the creation of work to be submitted for evaluation. This standard applies to all work ranging from daily homework assignments to major exams. Students must clearly cite any sources consulted—not only for quoted phrases but also for ideas and information that are not common knowledge. Neither ignorance nor carelessness is an acceptable defense in cases of plagiarism. It is the student’s responsibility to follow the appropriate format for citations. Students should ask their instructors for assistance in determining what sorts of materials and assistance are appropriate for assignments and for guidance in citing such materials clearly.

For further information about the Code of Academic Integrity see http://www.denison.edu/about/integrity.html

• Essay (approx. 10%): There will be one short writing assignment this semester, approximately 3-4 pages in length. It is due Friday September 17 by 4pm in my departmental mailbox in 103 Knapp. I will give you the essay topic and more information about the essay closer to its due date. In general, your essay must be typed, double-spaced, with reasonable margins and fonts (not larger than 12 point), must include academic footnotes, endnotes, or in-text citations and bibliographic information for all sources used, and must include a title or cover page with your name on it. If you have questions about citation practices, please speak with me beforehand. Each page must be numbered. The paper must be stapled. Do not use contractions. If these requirements (including the ones about being numbered and stapled – I am serious) are not met the paper will not be accepted. I grade hard copies only. Proofread your work.

• Demography Assignment (approx. 20%): There will be a demography assignment for the course, and it will be due in class on Wednesday November 17. It will involve an analysis of historical and contemporary demographic trends on the region and the specific area that you will focus on during the semester. I will give you more information about this project later in the term. The rules that apply for the writing of the essay hold for the demography assignment as well.

• Exams (midterm exam approx. 20%; final exam approx. 30%): There will be an in-class midterm exam on Wednesday October 13. There will be a two-hour final exam on Saturday December 18 at 9am. No alternative dates will be scheduled for either exam.

• Class discussion/Participation (approx. 20%): Attendance is mandatory. Absences will be noted and will affect your grade. Every week you will be responsible for reporting on that part of the world on which you have chosen to focus; this will be a part of the course participation. I completely understand that there are circumstances that may cause you to miss a class -- things come up and there are legitimate reasons. Please let me know what is going on beforehand, if possible. University-sponsored events may be legitimate excuses, but you will need to let me know of them in advance. It is your responsibility to make up any work missed and your responsibility to contact me to find out what you might have missed.

• Readings: a) Knight, “The Haitian Revolution” [CONSORT]

• Readings: a) Bialas [Blackboard]

• Readings: a) Dubois, Soccer Empire, “Introduction” and Ch. 1; b) FIFA organization and history [http://www.fifa.com/aboutfifa/index.html]
• News assignments/ FIFA country assignments

• Readings: a) Dubois, Soccer, Ch. 2

• Readings: a) Dubois, Soccer, Ch. 3

• Readings: a) Dubois, Soccer, Chs. 4-7

• Readings: a) Dubois, Soccer, Chs. 8-11

• Assignments: Essay Due
• Film: T-Shirt Travels

• Readings: a) Wolf, Europe and the people without history, “Prefaces”, Part I

• Readings: Wolf, Europe, Chs. 5 and 6

• Readings: Wolf, Europe, Ch. 7 and 8

• Readings: Wolf, Europe, Chs. 9 and 10

• Readings: Wolf, Europe, Ch. 11

• Readings: Wolf, Europe, Ch. 12 and “Afterward”

• Readings: Anderson, Imagined Communities, Chs. 1-3

• Readings: Anderson, Imagined Communities, Chs. 4-6

• Readings: Anderson, Imagined Communities, Chs. 8-10

• Readings: Lele, ‘Demographic Modernity’ [online]

• Readings: Raj, Where are you from? Chs. 1 and 2

• Readings: Raj, Where are you from? Chs. 3 and 4

• Readings: Raj, Where are you from? Ch. 5

• Readings: Raj, Where are you from? Chs. 6 and 7

• Readings: Raj, Where are you from? Ch. 8

• Readings: Huntington, “Clash?” [CONSORT]

• Readings: Appadurai, Chs. 1 and 2

• Readings: Appadurai, Ch. 3

• Readings: Appadurai, Ch. 4

• Readings: Appadurai, Chs. 5 and 6

• Film: We are all neighbours

• Readings: Ghosh, Sea of Poppies, pp. 3-156

• Readings: Ghosh, Sea of Poppies, pp. 157-226

• Readings: Ghosh, Sea of Poppies, pp. 227-286

• Readings: Ghosh, Sea of Poppies, pp. 287-385

• Readings: Ghosh, Sea of Poppies, pp. 386-446

• Readings: Ghosh, Sea of Poppies, pp. 447-496

• Plagiarism: Students and faculty at Denison University and the Department of International Studies are committed to academic integrity and will not tolerate any violation of this principle.  Academic honesty is the cornerstone of teaching and learning. Academic dishonesty is, in most cases, intellectual theft.  It includes, but is not limited to, providing or receiving assistance in a manner not authorized by the instructor in the creation of work to be submitted for evaluation.  This standard applies to all work ranging from daily homework assignments to major exams. Students must clearly cite any sources consulted, not only for quoted phrases but also for ideas and information that are not common knowledge.  Neither ignorance nor carelessness is an acceptable defense in cases of plagiarism.  It is the student's responsibility to follow the appropriate citation format. As is indicated in Denison's Student Handbook, available through www.mydenison.edu, instructors must refer every act of academic dishonesty to the Associate Provost, and violations may result in failure in the course, suspension, or expulsion. See: http://www.denison.edu/studentaffairs/handbook/article7.html

• Disability: Any student who feels he or she may need an accommodation based on the impact of a disability should contact me privately as soon as possible to discuss his or her specific needs.  I rely on the Academic Support & Enrichment Center in 104 Doane to verify the need for reasonable accommodations based on documentation on file in that office.
• Attendance: You are expected to attend class regularly. More than three absences during the semester will seriously affect your final grade.
• Evaluation: Students are required to write midterm and final evaluations of their performance in the class.
• Printing: All class material should be printed double-sided in order to save on paper and protect the environment.

• Anderson, Benedict. 2007. Imagined Communities. London: Verso.
• Enloe, Cynthia. 2007. Globalization &Militarism:Feminists Make the Link. New York: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
• Greig, Alastair, David Hulme, and Mark Turner. 2007. Challenging Global Inequality: Development Theory and Practice in the 21^st Century. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

• Barndt, Deborah. 2002. Tangled Routes: Women, Work and Globalization on the Tomato Trail. New York: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
• Bayly, C. A. 2004. The Birth of the Modern World. Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishing.

• Harvey, David. 2005. A Brief History of Neoliberalism. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Khalidi, Rashid. 2004. Resurrecting Empire: Western Footprints and America’s Perilous Path in the Middle East. Boston: Beacon Press.

• Parrenas, Rhacel Salazar. 2001. Servants of Globalization: Women, Migration and Domestic Work. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
• Rivoli, Pietra. 2005. The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy. New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

• Stiglitz, Joseph. 2005. Making Globalization Work. London: W. W. Norton & Company.

• Stiglitz, Joseph. 2003. Globalization and Its Discontents. New York: W. W. Norton & Company.

• http://allafrica.com
• http://mg.co.za
• http://english.aljazeera.net/HomePage
• http://jordantimes.com/thu/index.htm
• http://www.dailystar.com.lb/home2.asp
• http://www.haaretz.com
• http://www.jpost.com
• http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com
• http://english.people.com.cn/
• http://www.nationmultimedia.com
• http://www.japantimes.co.jp
• http://www.global.nytimes.com
• http://www.nytimes.com
• http://www.washingtonpost.com
• http://www.theglobeandmail.com
• http://news.bbc.co.uk
• http://www.guardian.co.uk
• http://www.independent.co.uk
• http://www.connexionfrance.com
• http://www.liberation.fr
• http://www.lemonde.fr
• http://lexpress.fr
• http://speigel.de
• http://zeit.de
• http://www.hs.fi/english
• http://english.eluniversal.com
• http://www.buenosairesherald.com

• Read chapters 1 and 2 in Imagined Communities.
• Midterm exam is due at the beginning of class

• Read chapter 3 and 5 in Imagined Communities.

• Read chapter 6 in Imagined Communities.

• Read chapter 7 in Imagined Communities.

• Read chapter 8 and 9 in Imagined Communities.

• Read chapters 10 and 11 in Imagined Communities.

• Read chapter 1 and 3 in Globalization & Militarism.
• Paper #2 is due at the beginning of class

• Read chapter 4 in Globalization & Militarism.

• Read chapter 5 in Globalization & Militarism.

• Read chapter 6 and 8 in Globalization & Militarism.
• Class evaluation at Slayter 409 from 10-10:20 am.

• Diana Adesola Mafe, “(Mis)Imagining Africa in the New Millenium: The Constant Gardner and Blood Diamond” (on Blackboard).

• Anderson, B. 2006 [1991]. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. Verso.

1. Plagiarism and academic integrity:

2. In-class technology use:

3. Class attendance and tardiness:

4. Reading assignment and class preparation:

• What is the author’s primary thesis? Try to summarize the author’s argument in one sentence. Then state what you think is significant about this argument.
• What evidence does the author use to support her thesis?
• What unstated biases or assumptions does the author incorporate in her arguments?
• What is your critique of the author’s arguments/evidence and thesis? (Strengths in the argument/evidence? Why are these strengths? Flaws in the argument/evidence?)
• What is your personal response to this reading? What questions does this reading raise for you? What did this reading make you think about?
• Select a specific passage or theme from the text that you would like to explore further in class. Note the page number(s) of the passage and write a question you have about it.

5. Late Work:

6. Writing Center:

7. Accommodation for Students with Disabilities:

• Those marked as *(Online link) are accessible via the link posted on Blackboard’s “Readings” page.
• Those marked as *(Library reserve) are available at the circulation desk at the library.

• Essay (approx. 10%): There will be one short writing assignment this semester, approximately 3-4 pages in length. It is due Tuesday September 20 in class. I will give you the essay topic and more information about the essay closer to its due date. In general, your essay must be typed, double-spaced, with reasonable margins and fonts (not larger than 12 point), must include academic footnotes, endnotes, or in-text citations and bibliographic information for all sources used, and a heading/title page with your name on it. If you have questions about citation practices, please speak with me beforehand. Each page must be numbered. The paper must be stapled. Do not use contractions. If these requirements (including the ones about being numbered and stapled – I am serious) are not met the paper will not be accepted. I grade hard copies only. Proofread your work.

• Demography Assignment (approx. 20%): There will be a demography assignment for the course, and it will be due in class on Thursday November 17. It will involve an analysis of historical and contemporary demographic trends on the region and the specific area that you will focus on during the semester. I will give you more information about this project later in the term. The rules that apply for the writing of the essay hold for the demography assignment as well.

• Exams (midterm exam approx. 20%; final exam approx. 30%): There will be an in-class midterm exam on Tuesday October 11. There will be a two-hour final exam on Friday December 16 at 6:30pm. No alternative dates will be scheduled for either exam.

• Class discussion/Participation (approx. 20%): Attendance is mandatory. Absences will be noted and will affect your grade. Every week you will be responsible for reporting on that part of the world on which you have chosen to focus; this will be a part of the course participation. I completely understand that there are circumstances that may cause you to miss a class -- things come up and there are legitimate reasons. Please let me know what is going on beforehand, if possible. University-sponsored events may be legitimate excuses, but you will need to let me know of them in advance. It is your responsibility to make up any work missed and your responsibility to contact me to find out what you might have missed.

• Readings: a) Knight, “The Haitian Revolution” [CONSORT]

• Readings: a) Bialas [Blackboard]; b) FIFA organization and history [http://www.fifa.com/aboutfifa/index.html]; c) Dubois, Soccer Empire, “Introduction” and Ch. 1

• News assignments/ FIFA country assignments

• Readings: a) Dubois, Ch. 2
• Speaker Visit: Spencer Wells, National Geographic Society

• Readings: a) Dubois, Soccer, Chs. 3-7

•  Readings: a) Dubois, Soccer, Chs. 8-11

• Assignments: Essay Due
• Film: T-Shirt Travels

• Readings: a) Wolf, Europe and the people without history, “Prefaces”, Part I

• Readings: Wolf, Europe, Ch. 7 and 8

• Readings: Wolf, Europe, Chs. 9-11

• Readings: Shultz, Jim, “The Cochabamba Water Revolt and its Aftermath” http://www.ucpress.edu/content/chapters/11049.ch01.pdf

• Readings: Lele, ‘Demographic Modernity’ [online]

• Readings: Yumul, “Reproducing the nation: ‘banal nationalism’ in the Turkish press”

• Readings: Raj, Where are you from? “Preface”, Chs. 1 and 2

• Readings: Raj, Where are you from? Chs. 3 and 4

• Readings: Raj, Where are you from? Ch. 5 and 6

• Readings: Appadurai, Chs. 1 and 2

• Readings: Appadurai, Ch. 3

• Readings: Appadurai, Ch. 4

• Film: We are all neighbours

• Readings: Ghosh, Sea of Poppies, pp. 3-156

• Readings: Ghosh, Sea of Poppies, pp. 157-286
• Speaker Visit: E. Valentine Daniel, Columbia University, in conjunction with the Denison Museum “Tea Exhibit”

• Readings: Ghosh, Sea of Poppies, pp. 287-496

• Speaker Visit: Donald Johanson, Arizona State University, Human Evolution and Migrations: “Lucy’s Legacy”