Globalisation Studies - GLSTB13935
Stream Summary
Faculty: ARTSC - Faculty of Arts&Social Science
School: School of Social Sciences
Contact: bis@unsw.edu.au
Program: 3935 - Science/Social Science
Award(s):
Bachelor of Social Science (Major)
Information valid for students commencing 2013.
Students who commenced prior to 2013 should go to the Handbook's Previous Editions
Stream Outline
Globalisation has emerged as a defining trend of the early twenty-first century. This stream addresses the main themes and debates that relate to globalisation and the concept of the ‘Global’. It locates this process in relation to human rights, world history, international relations, international political economy, global development, cultural contact and distance and large-scale social change. Questions about the rising levels of inequality world-wide, the environment, the changing role of nation-states and the nation-state system, the relationship between globalisation and transnational corporations, the growing power of international institutions and organisations, and the significance of cultural homogeneity and heterogeneity, and technological change will be examined. The relationship between globalisation and national identity will also be explored as will the wider social, cultural and political significance of recent international changes.
Globalisation Studies is available as a major stream within the Bachelor of International Studies and the Bachelor of Social Sciences at the University of New South Wales.
The major stream aims to achieve the following capacities for students.
Ability to:
- Identify most recent theories guiding the understanding of globalisation.
- Apply critical thinking to evaluating academic texts through comparison.
- Engage in critical thinking by comparing different positions on globalisation.
- Critically examine how the global and the local, cultural heterogeneity and homogeneity are intimately linked.
- Demonstrate a high level study skills and techniques.
- Develop a topic for scholarly debate, collect relevant material and critically evaluate.
- Use advanced academic writing skills.
Stream Structure
A student who wishes to gain a major sequence in Globalisation Studies must complete 54 units of credit including 12 uoc at level 1, at least 18 uoc at level 2 and at least 18 uoc at level 3, including the capstone course.
Students must complete a minimum of three Level 2 courses, including at least ONE of the following courses:
- ARTS2845 Sex, Human Rights & Justice (6 UOC)
- ARTS2846 Multiculturalism (6 UOC)
- ARTS2848 Language, Politics and Society (6 UOC)
- ARTS2873 People and Place (6 UOC)
- ARTS2877 Technologies, Culture, Society (6 UOC)
- GEOS2641 Urban Environments (6 UOC)
Students must complete a minimum of three Level 3 courses (including GLST3000) from the following:
- ARTS3292 Migrants and Refugees (6 UOC)
- ARTS3783 Great and Emerging Powers (6 UOC)
- ARTS3812 Theorising IPE (6 UOC)
- ARTS3815 Peoples, States & Sovereignty (6 UOC)
- ARTS3872 Media Publics (6 UOC)
- ARTS3874 Culture and Human Rights (6 UOC)
- GEOS3611 Geographies of Asia-Pacific (6 UOC)
- GEOS3651 Migration, Mutlicul. & Society (6 UOC)
- GLST3000 Issues in Globalisation (6 UOC)
