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Learning outcomes

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Understand the concept of globalisation and its unequal/gendered implications for peoples’ lives.
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Be more knowledgeable about a selection of issues confronting women, men and children around the world, as international capitalism structures more and more of our lives.
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Have gained experience in the interpretation and use of statistical information, and its integration with qualitative and ethnographic data.
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Access the latest available online data from reliable government, NGO, health websites and through library research.

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Additional information

Unit content:The unit provides students with an opportunity to apply theory from their discipline to important global issues. Students will rely on the latest information from government, corporations, heath services, and NGO websites. This unit provides students with a global perspective. It explores the impacts of contemporary globalisation practices on people, the environment and cultures in the context of international capitalism and growing integration and interdependency between nations, national economies, and related social issues. We live in a ‘global village’, we have an international division of labour, and the global consumer economy leaves few untouched. Global economic practices have positive and negative effects on cultures, poverty, health and the environment. How do we know what happens globally? How do we communicate our responses to what is happening in personal and professional roles? What is our responsibility in this process? The unit draws on theories of globalisation and neoliberalism and theories students bring from their disciplines to discuss issues including sex trafficking, forced migration, the economic effects of transnational corporations. It also examines Gross National Happiness, government policy of Bhutan, and now a U.N. millennium goal to foreground the importance of aspiration.