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Delivery mode: Individualized study with online enhancements.
Credits: 3 - Social Science
Prerequisite: None. A previous political economy, political science, or economics course is recommended.
Precluded course: POEC 483 is a cross-listed course—a course listed under 2 different disciplines—GLST 483. POEC 483 may not be taken for credit by students who have obtained credit for GLST 483.
Centre: Centre for Global and Social Analysis
POEC 483 has a Challenge for Credit option.
Political Economy 483 International Political Economy: The Politics of Globalizationis a senior-level, three-credit course in Political Economy and Global Studies. The course introduces highly contested issues and contradictory positions concerning the meaning and significance of globalization. Students will situate current global processes within the historical development of the world economy and learn to view these changes through a variety of theoretical lenses. The course materials critically engage the structural changes occurring between world regions, among international financial institutions—such as the World Trade Organization, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank—as well as multinational business corporations. Finally, students will be engaged with questions concerning the “developing world” and globalization and the “anti-globalization backlash” that appears to be growing in size and momentum.
The course consists of the following ten units.
Unit 1: Introduction
Unit 2: “Pre-Globalization” International Power-relations and Practices
Unit 3: Contemporary Theories of International Political Economy & Globalization
Unit 4: The New Global Context
Unit 5: Multinational Corporations and Global Production
Unit 6: Regionalism and Globalization
Unit 7: Developing Nations and Globalization
Unit 8: Developed Nations and Globalization
Unit 9: Opposing Globalization
Unit 10: Future Trends and Issues
To receive credit for GLST 483, you must achieve a minimum of “D” per cent on the final assignment and a minimum composite course grade of “D” (50 per cent). The chart below summarizes the course activities and the credit weight associated with each. The weighting of the composite grade is as follows:
Book Review Assignment | Research Essay | Final Exam | Total |
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25% | 40% | 35% | 100% |
To learn more about assignments and examinations, please refer to Athabasca University's online Calendar.
Cohn, Theodore H. 2005. Global political economy: Theory and practice. 3d ed. New York: Pearson Longman.
Hirst, Paul, and Grahame Thompson. 1999. Globalization in question. 2d ed. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press.
Reich, Robert B. 1992. The work of nations. New York: Vintage Books.
Stubbs, Richard, and Geoffrey R. D. Underhill, eds. 2006. Political economy and the changing world order. 3d ed. Don Mills: Oxford University Press.
The course materials also include student manual and a study guide.