Ithaca College

ECON 368 Globalization and Human Development

MWF 11:00-11:50 CRN 43445

This course was just approved for ICC-Diversity credit, effective Spring 2017. 

Course Description: This course will investigate the linkages between global markets and ‘well-being.’ Topics covered will include historical and contemporary trends in international trade and foreign investment, ‘development’ itself, systemic inequities between countries considered poor and rich and the language we use to talk about them, economic power relations between the US/Western Europe and the rest of the global economy, transitions from colonial to post-colonial identities and economic systems,  global labor markets, trade agreements, and multinational corporations. With case studies we will examine how the new global economy both affects and reflects national and community identities, well-being, social institutions, national sovereignty, and gender and ethnic relations.  

Current prerequisites are Econ 121 and 122 (Principles of Microeconomics and Macroeconomics) - please contact Shaianne Osterreich for questions/requests about these pre-reqs. (Now that the course has been Diversity designated we will be changing these to either 12100 or 12200).