CONTEMPORARY

WORLD SYLLABUS
Philippine Normal University

Session Course Learning Outcomes
Number
Demonstrate understanding of

opportunities and challenges
1-10
of globalization for individuals,
communities and nations
economically, politically,
socially, culturally

11-17

Analyze the impact of

globalization on Philippine
society

Topic/Content
1. Orientation, Course
Requirements,
Policies, Blended
Learning Strategies
2. Understanding
globalization:
Definition& Historical
roots
3. Theories of
globalization (e.g.,
economic, political
and cultural theories)
4. Challenges and
opportunities of
globalization
Global inequalities
Human security
Climate change
Balkanization and
regionalization
Secularism and
sectarianism
Radical Science

1. Global-local linkages:
Situating the
Philippines in the
globalized world
2. Effects of
globalization
Politics and
Governance
Economic and
development
Socio-cultural and
multiculturalism
Education and
human capital
competitiveness
Communication and
the new media

Group 1

Group 2

Group 3 & 4

Group 5

Group 6 & 7

18-19

20-23

Course
Referen
ces

1. Local and
international policies
in support of
globalization
2. Regional cooperation
Implement solution-based
1. Social Networking
projects to address
Advocacies
globalization challenges
2. Addressing
Legislative Gaps:
Engaging with
politicians
3. Creative Pedagogies
integrating
globalization
challenges in teaching
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Philippine Society. Quezon City: UP Press.
2001
Foreman-Peck, James. Historical Foundations of
Globalization. Cheltenham: UK: Edward Elgar,
1998.
Giddens, A. Sociology. 3rd ed. UK: Polity Press
1997
Giddens, A. and Duneier M. Introduction to
Sociology. 3rded. New York: W.W. Norton and
Company, Inc. 2000
Giddens, Anthony, The Run Away World.
Hopkins, A.G. Globalization in World History. New
York: Norton, 2002.
Macionis, J. Sociology. 9thed. New jersey: Prentice
Hall. 2004
Mills, W. the Sociological Imagination. London:
Oxford University. 1959
ORourke, Kevin H, and Williams, Jeffrey
G. Globalization and History: The Evolution of a
Nineteeth-Century Atlantic Economy. Cambridge,
Mass: MIT Press, 1999.
Roger Dale, Globalization and Education:
Examine local and global
responses and initiatives to
optimize opportunities created
by globalization

Demonstrating A Common World Education

Culture or Locating A Globally Structured
Education Agenda? , Educational Theory, Volume
50, Issue 4, pages 427448, December 2000
Theories of Globalization:
http://www.deu.edu.tr/userweb/timucin.yalcinkaya/
Theories%20of%20Globalization.pdf
The World is Flat:A Brief History of the TwentyFirst Century, Thomas Friedman, 2005
The McDonaldization of Society, George Ritzer,
1993
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster
Capitalism, Naomi Klein, 2007
The Globalization of World Politics: An Introduction
to International Relations, Sixth Edition, Edited
by John Baylis, Steve Smith, and Patricia Owens,
12 December 2013
Globalization and Its Discontents: Joseph Stiglitz
2002
The End of Poverty: The Economic Possibilities of
Our Time, Jeffrey D. Sachs, 2006
Profit over People by Noam Chomsky
The World on Fire by Amy Chua
The Lexus and the Olive Tree by Thomas Friedman

FLA: Write a critical book review on Walden Bellos Deglobalization: Ideas for
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