Introduction to Globalization SIS 123 / GEOG 123 Instructor: Dr. Matthew Sparke For Professor Sparke's home page and links to some of his publications click here Course Syllabus

Learning Objectives:

How do you make sense of people when they argue that they are 'pro-' or 'anti-globalization'? Why was the 'Battle in Seattle' about more than just Seattle? How are goods, capital and people moving around the world in new ways? How do these movements change politics locally and globally? How do they relate to national security and national sovereignty? Why does increasing global interconnectedness between countries also lead to greater inequality in countries? How are we all connected together, and who are "we"?

This course aims to help you start answering these sorts of questions by examining globalization in all its diverse forms of world-wide  interconnection. Such interconnections include economic ties, political ties, cultural ties, and social ties. These ties can be analyzed independently, but they also need to be understood in terms of how they operate in conjunction with one another to produce the overall effect that has been given the single label globalization.  When it is talked about in this singular way, globalization often seems overpowering, inevitable and unstoppable, and the first three weeks of the course address how the term 'globalization' is often used like this in political speech in order to achieve particular political goals. However, by moving on to also learn about some of the actual component ties connecting the world together more tightly you will be able to see globalization as something less monolithic, something that is being contested and reworked, something that ties the world together in a range of both  constraining and empowering ways, something that is constantly changing, and something that therefore can also be changed.

There are 3 main skills you will develop in this class: 1) research skills, that will be developed through researching how, where and why a particular global corporation has globalized; 2) debating skills, that will be developed in section discussions of videos and political struggles such as the 'Battle in Seattle'; and 3) writing skills, that will be developed through the preparation of an independent research report on a global corporation. More generally, you will develop your literacy in global geography, as well as your capacity to read and understand the business and international news sections of mainstream newspapers. With a mix of videos and broad-based lectures, the class is very interdisciplinary in scope, serving as a gateway to international studies, political science, sociology, law, geography, anthropology, women's studies, business, economics and the humanities.

At the end of this course, you will come away with more than just some additional knowledge and skills.  More importantly, you will have learnt how to ask your own questions about global dynamics, and you will have also learnt about new resources (ranging from news sources and databases to other UW courses) that will help you set about doing research and answering your questions. Ultimately, a successful experience in this course will lead you to think more actively about how you yourself can work within global ties to change them for the better.

 

Required Texts

1) GEOG/SIS 123 Class Readings - available as downloadable PDFs from this website below when class begins. Please note the username and password for these materials will be given out in class during the first lecture.

2) Barack Obama, Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance, Three Rivers Press: New York, 2004. Please note this is the UW's Common Book for 2009, and, given that so many enrollees in GEOG/SIS 123 are first-year students, the book will be used for study and as a basis of evaluation in the class midterm. Even if you are not a first-year student, the book still provides for useful learning opportunities relating to globalization. Along with its reflections on the racial legacies of imperialism and slavery, the book also invites attention to the ongoing ties between global interdependencies and local inequalities. And, given our attention in the class to neoliberalism and the impact of the Chicago School of Economics on global policy-making, Part II of the book on Chicago raises all sorts of critical questions about what sort of 'Chicago Boy' Obama represents. For more information on the common book and related talks visit click here. Honors students and others preparing for the mid-term map questions should also consult the class Common Book/Honors page.

Recommended Texts

In addition to the required texts, there are also two recommended books for the course. The first is Global Inc. by Medard Gabel and Henry Bruner (Metropolitan Books, New York, ISBN 0805073957). This is a high-end corporate look at transnational corporations that features colorful maps of TNC growth patterns and their global networks. It will be very useful background for preparing the main class term paper. The second recommended text is The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein (Metropolitan Books, New York, 10 - 08050-7983-1). This book counters the corporatist style of Global Inc. with a critical history of the development of free market capitalism and, as Klein describes it, the shocking global spread of market fundamentalim. It will be a valuable alternative perspective to the assigned class reading of business magazines and shareholder reports, and, with its detailed account of Milton Friedman's vision and the Chicago School's rise to influence, it will provide a valuable backgrounder for evaluating whether President Obama is a new kind of 'Chicago Boy', or not!

Recommended Music

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Assessment of student work:

Midterm Exam (in class)	20%
Final Exam Monday Dec 14 Kane 130: 10:30 - 12:20	40%
Research project /Service Learning	40%

Please note that the average grade for the class is about 84% or 3.0. For a more detailed breakdown see the 123 grade guide.

Honors students and others preparing for the mid-term map questions should also consult the class Common Book/Honors page.

Extra credit is also available in this class for going to lectures listed immediately below this note (and proving your attendance to your TA). You can get a maximum of 4% extra credit this way over the quarter, 1% per lecture added to your overall % grade.

Extra crredit lectures for Fall 2009 (please check back here as I frequently add newly announced events on campus)

> ANY OF THE TALKS IN THE GLOBAL HEALTH DEPARTMENT'S FRIDAY SEMINAR SERIES ON GLOBAL AID

> Richard Dawkins, The Greatest Show on Earth, October 8, 7:30 p.m., at the Hec Edmundson Pavilion, 3870 Montlake Blvd NE, tickets are first-come, first-serve at the event; doors open at 7:00 pm. About 5,000 seats will be available.

> Bruce Katz, The Great Recession: What Comes Next for our MetroNation, Kane 130, 6: 30, Oct 13, http://www.grad.washington.edu/lectures/katz.html for tickets

> Terry Provence, Poverty and Opportunity: Microfinance and People-Powered Development, Thursday October 15, 2009, 6:00 PM, Kane Hall, Room 220, see also https://nacla.org/node/6180

> PATTERNS OF INDIGENOUS MOBILITY: GUATEMALA > MEXICO > U.S., Friday, October 16, 3:30PM - 5:30PM, Douglas Forum - Executive Education Center

> Sonal Khullar, Contemporary Art in India and Its Global Futures, Saturday October 17, 2009 9:30-11:00 AM, Seattle Asian Art Museum, Volunteer Park

> Study Abroad Fair, Mary Gates Hall, Oct 21, http://www.washington.edu/home/international/studyabroad/studyabroadfair.html

> IHME Seminar: “Mapping Global Health – Geographic Information Systems Applications in Health Research and Practice”, Oct 21, 4 p.m., 2301 5th Ave. Suite 600

> Tim Flannery, "Now or Never: Why We Must Act Now to End Climate Change and Create a Sustainable Future," Ocean Sciences, Room 425

> International Workers and Students for Justice, 'We are all workers' a conference on labor struggles relating to UW, Oct 22, Thompson 101, 7:00pm

> Feminist Philosophy in Interdisciplinary Perspective, Carolyn Allen, English; Eva Cherniavsky, English; Judith A. Howard, Sociology and Women Studies; Divisional Dean, Social Sciences; Barbara Reskin, Sociology; Janelle Taylor, Anthropology; Kathleen Woodward, English; Director, Simpson Center for the Humanities October 23, 5:00-6:30 pm ~ Kane 220

> A Conversation with Ban Ki-moon Secretary-General of the United Nations, Monday, October 26, 2009, Check-in 10:00 AM; Lecture 10:30 - 11:30 AM, The Fairmont Hotel, Metropole Room 441 University Street, Seattle PRICE: $10 members/students, pre-registration required

> Theo Chocolates (http://www.theochocolate.com/)  in Fremont will be offering free factory tours for Geog 123 students Monday (10/26) and Wednesday (10/28) at 11am. Now fully booked.

>Roberto Gonzales, "Learning to be Illegal: Undocumented Youth and the Confusing and Contradictory Routes to Adulthood" Thursday, October 29, Parrington Hall Forum (Room 309)
12:00—1:30 pm.

> Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick, movie showing 5:45- 7:45pm Oct 29th in Health Sci Building T-747, organized by the UW student association SPARX (no relation) http://depts.washington.edu/sparx1/

> Richard Horton, Editor-in-Chief of the Lancet, "Two Concepts for Health: How to Radicalize the Global Response to Planetary Threats", Monday, November 2, 2009 5:30p Lecture, Hogness Auditorium

> Jim Gregory, UW History, "Seattle, Segregation and Civil Rights," Wednesday Nov. 4th from 5-7pm. Smith Hall 102.

> Global Health 101: Influenza: Here Today. Gone Tomorrow? Nov 5th 5:30 p.m., SBRI http://www.sbri.org/Home/

> Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick, movie showing 5:45- 7:45pm Nov 5th in Health Sci Building T-747, organized by the UW student association SPARX (no relation) http://depts.washington.edu/sparx1/

> Capitalist Crisis and Resistance, all day conference Sunday Nov 8 in Thompson Hall, 134, http://nwsocialistconference.org/, including 1:30pm-3pm From Crash to Recovery? The Economic Crisis Today (Sam Bernstein), & Capitalism and the Ecological Crisis (Rebecca Lewis)

> UW Drama professor Mark Jenkins will Discuss and present two scenes from his new play, "From Seasons Such as
These," on UW student Thane Summers, who died fighting against Fascist forces in Spain. November 11 7:30 pm, Kane Hall 220, admission charged.

> Peter Carroll, "Hemingway and the Lincoln Brigade volunteers" Nov 12, 7:00 pm in Gowen 301, free admission.

> Susan Koppelman, "Water and Justice in Israel/Palestine," Nov 13, Thomson 101, 6:00 - 8:00pm

> Dipesh Chakrabarty, 'Between Globalization and Global Warming: The Long and the Short of Human History,' Tuesday, Nov. 17, 7:00p, Kane 220

> Patricia McManus (Indiana University), Steven Pfaff (UW), Beverly Crawford (UC Berkeley), 'Remaking German Society in the Context of Globalization,' November 19-20, 2009 Walker Ames Room Kane Hall, 225: 2:30 - 4:30

> The Yes Men Fix the World, playing at the Northwest Film Forum, Nov. 27th through Dec. 3rd., Mike and Andy (the Yes Men) will be at the premier for showings at 7:00 and 9:00 pm on Nov 27th. http://www.nwfilmforum.org/live/page/calendar/1118 See trailers at: http://www.theyesmenfixtheworld.com/ To register for special cheap tickets made available by the Film Forum for students in GEOG 123, please download the password-protected PDF and follow the links to the catalyst site.

> Global Washington Conference: A Blueprint for Action, Monday December 7, 2009 All day, Microsoft Campus, Redmond WA

 

Definitions of student work:

a) The midterm exam

This will be an in-class (closed-book) exam consisting of 10 multiple choice questions relating to place-names and events mentioned in the UW Commonbook and 30 short answer keyword identification questions based on key terms from the class text and lectures. This exam is worth 20% of the final grade. In order to prepare for the geographic questions about Kenya, Indonesia, Hawaii and Chicago, please review the maps in the downloadable readings available on the class Common Book/Honors page. If you have read the book all the way through, and have tried to trace Obama's global journeying on some maps, you will easily ace the exam. Some of the cartographic information on the Common Book/Honors page maps is therefore surplus to requirements. You do not need to know, for example, every single name of every Chicago city neighborhood as outlined on the Mayor's map!

b) The final exam

This will be a 2 hour (closed-book) exam consisting of 20 short answer identifications and one essay. The exam will be Monday Dec 14, Kane 130: 10:30 - 12:20. It will test your knowledge of what has been taught in lectures throughout the quarter. This exam is worth 40% of the final grade.

c) Research work  (please note in Fall 2009, some students will be able to do service learning instead if they are in sections AF or AP. For further information on the requirements for the service learning option in these special sections, click click here)

The research work which will contribute 40% towards your final grade consists of three different gradable components. The focus of the research will be to investigate how a large transnational corporation (TNC) has globalized. You will have to find out where it has globalized to, why it has globalized, when it has globalized and how. The overarching goal is to enable you to conduct and write-up a significant piece of independent research. The aim is also to help you see how you can bring together insights from lectures and already exisiting academic writing with primary research conducted by yourself on a large corporation you are especially interested in. The teaching assistants (or TAs) will guide this research process and will evaluate you not just on your final research report (worth 25% of overall grade), but also on your contributions to section workshop discussions (worth 5% of overall grade) your initiative as a researcher (worth 5% of overall grade) and your end of quarter online maps (worth 5% of the overall grade). Each of these components is discussed in turn below.

i) Research Report For a template guide for writing the report click here. The research report itself should be between 10 & 12 pages long (approx. 3,000 words). It should be double-spaced, in 12 point characters in the 'Times New Roman' font, and should include at least one map (which should take the form of a screen grab image of your online map). The report must use examples of wider trends of which the particular business you are investigating is part. You should use the Harvard reference system, and should conclude with a full reference list in the following format:

References:
BRENNER, N. (1999). Beyond state-centrism? Space, territoriality, and geographical scale in globalization studies. Theory and Society, 28, pp. 39-78.

BYGRAVE, M. (2002). "Where have all the protesters gone? Anti-globalisation activists no longer make headlines, but they haven't disappeared." Guardian Weekly, August 1-7, p. 21.

SPARKE, M. ( 2005) In the Space of Theory: Postfoundational Geographies of the Nation-State, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

SPARKE, M. (2004) "Passports into Credit Cards: On the Borders and Spaces of Neoliberal Citizenship," in Joel Migdal ed. Boundaries and Belonging, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 251 - 283.

SPARKE, M. (2004) “Political Geographies of Globalization: (1) Dominance,” Progress in Human Geography, 28,6 777–794.

WORLD BANK (2002) World Bank Delivers Statement at World Summit on Sustainable Development. Accessed on the web on September 4th, 2002 at:
http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/NEWS/0,,contentMDK:20063799~menuPK:34463~pagePK:34370~piPK:34424~theSitePK:4607,00.html

Research reports should be your own work and must not be copied or otherwise plagiarized from another source whether it be an internet site or another student. In the case of plagiarism students will receive 0% for the whole research work component of the grade (40% of total). They may also, depending on the severity of the case and its legal implications, be referred to the university administration.

ii) Workshop contributions Each week there will be two sections scheduled with the TAs. Some days the TA will use this time to clarify the class material, including lectures, readings and key term definitions.In addition, however, you will sometimes be expected to discuss additional materials. a) There will be a number of films shown in class and these will be discussed in section using a debate model b) Other days will be dedicated by the TA to facilitating your own primary research. To these workshops you will be expected to bring updates of your work in progress, including examples of articles you have found in academic journals as well as materials relating to your particular empirical focus. TAs will keep track of who contributes in these ways to the sections and how, and will give a grade between 0 and 5% accordingly.

iii) Research initiative This portion of the grade will be mainly based on how well you follow the instructions for preparing your research report. If you simply follow the timetable carefully you will get between 1 and 3%. If you ask innovative and probing research questions too, you will get up to 4%. And if you also show particular initiative at setting up an interview with someone or tracking down a hard to find company report or going out of your way to investigate a complex academic literature, you will guarantee yourself a full 5%. The 3 students who excel most in showing research initiative will be given awards. Click PDF or PPT to download the librarian's lecture on how to do your TNC research using UW library resources.

iv) Online Mapping Grading will be based on synthesis, clarity and style, but anyone who has made a sincere and reasonable effort is guaranteed a grade of 4 or 5%. Examples of online mapping from students in the 2008 Intro to Globalization class, can be reached through the following links: Cisco, Pfizer, & Eli Lily

 

Week by week schedule of lectures, sections, and assignments

Week 1: Introductions
Oct 1	Lecture 1: What is globalization? Click-> PDF Reading: After lecture 1 all you need to read is this schedule and syllabus. Read them carefully all the way through.
Section	TAs Introduce themselves and students to each other. Go over how to find the syllabus online, how to access the password protected sections, and how to get the most out of the class.
Weekly assignments: Read Chapter 1 of 123 Text - click here for pdf
Week 2: Globalism in Action
Oct 6	Lecture 2: Making sense of globalization - 'the elephant' and its implications Click ->PDF Reading: Chapter 1
Oct 8	Lecture 3: Making sense of globaloney - the three myths of globalization in action and neoliberalism Click -> PDF and University of Texas Inequality Project Reading: Chapter 2 and watch the video sections on/with Milton Friedman and Bill Clinton at Commanding Heights, the People section. Preparation for section: Use Lexis Nexis or buy a copy of The Wall Street Journal , The Financial Times, The Economist, Business Week, Forbes, Fortune or some similar pro-business magazine or paper and look for an article in which an editorialist or policy maker or corporate executive says something along the lines:- 'we need to change in this way because of globalization' or 'because of the need to remain globally competitive, we need to do x'. Cut the article out or copy it and bring it to section on Friday. If you can't find an argument like this, at least look for an advertisement used by a TNC that uses globalization imagery to market itself and bring that to section. Also those interested in extra reading, check out the critiques of Thomas Friedman written by Matt Taibi , Vandana Shiva, Matthew Sparke, and, on Friedman's newest book, Matt Taibbi again!
Section	Section II: TAs introduce how to use Lexis-Nexis and other useful databases for TNC research. Discuss use of worksheets for moving through the term-paper research tasks.For UW library support designed specifically for Intro to Globalization research work click the following library resources pages.
Weekly assignments: Go to web, review at least 7 sites listed on the class resources page http://faculty.washington.edu/sparke/resources.htm. In addition, review at least 5 websites of transnational corporations (TNCs) and identify a corporation to study. Remember the choice you make now you will have to work with for the whole quarter. So be sure to pick a TNC that interests you (for whatever reason) and about which you think you can track down plenty of information. The research reports should not simply parrot back what the company's own website says. They should be analytical, questioning, comprehensive and clearly based on independent research. So again, don't just pick a TNC that seems to have a lot to say on its own website, and be absolutely sure to do the research before section on Tuesday 10th when you will have to tell the TA which TNC you have picked. Note too that you might also want to read some business magazines to get a sense of a TNC that will interest you . If you can't find the corporate website using http://www.google.com, try http://www.hoovers.com If you would like to explore links based upon the names of particular CEOs you are interested or based on corporate records try http://www.anywho.com, or http://www.knowx.com, or http://www.tracersinfo.com or http://www.sec.gov. Remember your key task is to answer the 4 main questions about the TNC: where, why, when and how has it globalized? So pick a TNC that you are interested in, but also one that you think will be easy enough to research. This is also a good time to check-out the library resource page that has been set up to help you with 123. Click library resources pages PLEASE NOTE TOO that the ready-to-print worksheets for the whole 123 TNC research project are availble if you click here
Week 3: Globalization in Question
Oct 13	Lecture 4: Comparing neoliberal Globalization with anti-neoliberal global visions Click --> PDF Reading: Definitions of NEOLIBERAL, NEOLIBERALISM, IDEOLOGY, DISCOURSE, HEGEMONY, GLOBALIZATION, and ANTI-GLOBALIZATION in the glossary. Also make sure that you have now read all of the Globaloney chapter (Chapter 2). And for students who really want to read more, get a copy of David Harvey's book, A Brief History of Neoliberalism, and to see the review by Thom Hartman click --> here. For connection to Commanding Heights website and time-map click ->here For watching David Harvey on neoliberalism, the G20 and the financial crisis click ->here
Oct 15	Lecture 5: From Seattle to Porto Alegre: This is What Democracy Looks Like Reading: a) UW archive on Seattle anti-WTO protests click, b) definition of BATTLE IN SEATTLE from glossary, c) Matthew Sparke, 2005 “The World Social Forum and the Lessons for Economic Geography,” click --> PDF If you have time, please also check here to read the WTO's own website response to critics. And for students who really want to read more, get a copy of David Harvey's book, A Brief History of Neoliberalism, and to see the review by Thom Hartman click --> here
Section	Hand in note to TA describing which TNC or at least which sort of TNC you are thinking about researching. Use section time to discuss examples you have found of globaloney myths in action in either the business media or TNC advertising & share-holder reports. Plus assign groups for Wal-Mart debate in week 4.
Weekly assignments: Prepare for upcoming debate in section by reading online the excellent textual material produced by PBS in conjunction with the Frontline show on Is Walmart Good for America? - including the Introduction, and all the subsections of 'the Secrets of Walmarts success' (click here PBS) . I especially recommend The Transforming America and the China Connection subsections, and the interview with Gary Gereffi from the PBS webpage. You might further find some great debating points in the Frontline online discussion of their show (also at PBS) . In addition, there is another more hard-hitting movie on Wal-Mart that has lots more info on how the company sets prices points for its suppliers and provides extraordinary benefits for its founding family and execs. Its title is: Wal-Mart: The High Price or Low Costand can be viewed at http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3836296181471292925# Please note: this weekend there are also a wholse series of events being organized around Puget Sound in conjunction with a global campaign to enfore the UN's Millennium Development Goals. For more information see http://standagainstpoverty.org/
Week 4: Commodity chains
Oct 20	Lecture 6: Commodity chains and world trade - lecture will also use short sections from No Logo Odegaard Media Click -> PDF Reading: Chapter 3 Sections A, B and C. plus the definitions of COMMODITY, COMMODITY FETISHISM, CONSUMERISM and COMMODIFICATION in the glossary. Also check out Sourcemap, an open source website that offer maps of diverse commodity chains along with measures of their carbon footprints, and a great article on an Ethiopian cobbler cobbling African Nikes with tyres and local fabric
Oct 22.	Lecture 7: Tracing TNC growth and change from the East India Company to Wal-Mart Click -> PDF Reading: Chapter 3, section D.Plus definitions of of RACE TO THE BOTTOM, DOWNWARD HARMONIZATION FDI, OFFSHORING, SUBCONTRACTING, SOURCING EFFICIENCY, HORIZONTAL INTEGRATION in the glossary. For those who really want to engage more deeply with the commodity chain literature or simply for those still trying to finalize a choice of TNCs to study there is a great website organized by a group of scholars who study commodity chains at http://www.ids.ac.uk/globalvaluechains/. For the link to the Workers Rights Consortium webpage click --> here For an example of a neoliberal 'liberalized trade is always good' counter-argument click --> KUOW, Thursday Oct 22nd, 2009, Daniel Griswold Fourth Stanza for Cargoes
Section	Debate: 'Is Wal-Mart good for America?' PLus create research sub-groups for peer editing later in weeks 6 and 7.
Weekly assignments: Re-read chapters 1 through 3 to prepare for midterm
Week 5: TNCs
Oct 27	Lecture 8: When, why, where and how have TNCs globalized? Click -> PDF Reading: Chapter 3 review (also, if you have extra time, look ahead to Chapter 4)
Oct 29	Lecture 9: How to map your TNC, plus mid-term review. Reading: check out Sourcemap and the 123 Guide to creating a MyMaps map of a TNC provided here
Section	Review material for in-class midterm. For prep sheet click here after Oct 27
Weekly assignments: Prepare for midterm
Week 6: Labor
Nov 3	Midterm ( For prep sheet click here after Oct 27) PLUS GUIDE TO USING LIRBARY RESOURCES FOR TNC RESEARCH Click PDF or PPT to download Amanda Hornby's lecture on how to do your TNC research using UW library resources.
Nov 5	Lecture 10: From Fordism to Post-Fordism and New International Divisions of Labor Click PDF Reading: Chapter 4 also watch/read the following 2 items and reflect on their linkages: Exponential Futures and Lost Futures
Section	TAs will be grading during section time. Please use this time to prepare your online map of your TNC as per lecture on Oct 29. Prepare the map YOURSELF using Google My Maps as following the instructions provided here. You may find that if you are dealing with a huge TNC like GE or Unilever that it is better to just focus on one particular commodity produced by the TNC. PLEASE NOTE: YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO FIND PRE-MADE MAPS IN THE MAIN LIBRARY OR THE BUSINESS LIRBARY. EVERY YEAR THE BUSINESS LIBRARIAN COMPLAINS ABOUT THE EXTRA DEMANDS ON HIS TIME MADE BY 123 STUDENTS ASKING FOR READY-MADE MAPS. THEY DO NOT EXIST! YOU HAVE TO CREATE THEM YOURSELF USING IINFORMATION YOU HAVE ALREADY GATHERED ABOUT WHERE YOUR TNC SOURCES FROM AND WHERE IT MARKETS ITS PRODUCTS.
Weekly assignments: .Do major substantial research into your corporation with a view to doing two tasks:- 1)Improving your online map 2) Writing a 3 page report on whether the corporation is globalizing mainly for market access reasons (i.e. reaching a bigger market that couldn't be reached without locating some part of the company overseas), for sourcing efficiency reasons (e.g. cheaper labor, reduced taxes, less rigorous environmental protection rules, access to high-skilled labor and so on) or for some complex mix of the two. If at all possible, try also toaddress how the company is entering the foreign area. To do this, complete the following 3 tasks if you have not done so already. i) Find company reports of your own chosen TNC. The TNC website may itself have back issues of summary reports. If not, and if the company is a publically held corporation (listed on the stockmarket), then one option is to call the company's shareholder relations office and ask if they have an annual report. Another way is to search the internet further for reports at the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) website http://www.sec.gov or at http://www.FreeEdgar.com Alternatively private companies have to file a brief report with the Secretary of State's Dept. of Corporations, and to access these reports call the relevant Department of Corporations ii) Find at least two academic articles (or books) that discuss the TNC you are researching. iii) Use Lexis-Nexus and other search engines to esearch whether, when and how the TNC you are studying has sought to use the prospect of mobility or has invoked free trade rules to make a government do what it wants. One way to do this is to investigate what subsidies states and local governments have given to a TNC at http://www.goodjobsfirst.org Another good option done in conjuction with research into subsidies is to search the newspapers of the city or cities in which the TNC has offices, factories or other facilities. Here you might find stories about how the TNC extracted these local subsidies and tax breaks using particular threats of mobility and job loss. As well as Lexis-Nexis, other good links for this are http://metalab.unc.edu/slanews/internet/archives.html and http://ajr.newslink.org/daily.html You might also try investigating whether the corporation has been mentioned in the US congress at http://thomas.loc.gov/ If you would like like to find out more about how your TNC has acted vis-a-vis environmental laws see http://scorecrd.org Click PDF or PPT to download the librarian's lecture on how to do your TNC research using UW library resources.
Week 7: Money
Nov 10	Lecture 12: Bretton Woods and Rise of Global Finance Click-> PDF Reading: Chapter 5 , plus definitions of INFLATION, CURRENT ACCOUNT DEFICIT, FISCAL POLICY, BALANCE OF PAYMENTS, BONDS, BRETTON WOODS AGREEMENT, CAPITAL, IMPORT SUBSTITUTION in the glossary. Also go to the websites of the Bretton Woods Project IMF, Jubilee Plus, Susan George, and New Economics (from class resources page) in order to prepare for debate in Section.
Nov 11	VETERANS' DAY HOLIDAY
Nov 12	Life, Debt and Global Poverty Management - including film, Life and Debt Click-> PDF Reading: Revise Chapter 5 plus definitions of DEBT CRISES, IMF, IDB, CAPITAL FLIGHT, GLOBAL SOUTH, HIPCSs, DEBT CRISES, IMF, IDB, CAPITAL FLIGHT, GLOBAL SOUTH, HIPCSs, PRIVATIZATION and NEOCOLONIALISM in the glossary.. Also, for all those interested in microfinance, read https://nacla.org/node/6180
Section	Bring 3 copies of your 3 page report to section next week. Share with your TNC research subgroup. Read each others' 3 page reports and offer ideas for improvement in real time. Before giving back Midterm exam scripts with grade at the end of section, TAs will also discuss what students generally did right and wrong in their answers.
Weekly assignment: Write a first draft of your research report on your chosen TNC. [To make sure you have all your research on your TNC in order and in one place, please feel free to use the worksheets provided here. You may then also find it useful to use the research report template - provided here - to organize your argument ]. The report must explain where, why, when and how the TNC has globalized over a particular period of time. You must make this period of time clear in the title of your paper (e.g. "The global expansion of Coca-Cola from 1945 to 2000"). You should also include at least one map in your paper showing the spread of the TNC, either in terms of markets or sourcing or, ideally, both. If you can include more than one map, showing its global scope at two different moments of time, this will help. Ideally the draft of the paper should also cite and discuss at least 2 academic articles relating to the company or its sector. High quality papers will additionally address the quantitative growth in the TNC's earnings, its changing share price over the same period, and any data you have discovered relating to its labor practices and pay rates. REMINDER: Research reports should be your own work and must not be copied or otherwise plagiarized from another source whether it be an internet site or another student. In the case of plagiarism students will receive 0% for the whole research work component of the grade (ie they will forfeit all 40% of the total). They may also, depending on the severity of the case and its legal implications, be referred to the university administration. To understand better the meaning and implications of plagiarism click here.
Week 8: Law
Nov 17	Lecture 14: The global constitution of transnational trade law Reading:Chapter 6 section 6a
Nov 19	Lecture 15: Uneven rights of personhood: the corporation versus humanitarian law from below Click PDF Reading: Chapter 6 , sections 6b and 6c
Section	Bring 4 copies of your draft paper to class (it must be at least 7 pages long). Share with your research sub-group.. Be sure to incoporate insights from the 2 academic articles in your own paper. Peer subgroups develop and give feedback on draft papers in class time. Further writing help is provided by the following: Odegaard Writing Ctr & Geography Writing Ctr Note: two new sites on coporate responsibility worth consulting are: http://www.aflcio.org/corporatewatch/ http://http://www.changetowin.org/campaigns.html
Weekly assignment: It is not obligatory, but if you want more feedback on your term paper from your TA, fully revise it as a 10 page paper to be handed in by Nov 20th. Remember to put your name and student number on the cover, as well as the title you have chosen. High quality reports should contain additional maps, graphs and illustrations, as well as the link to your online map. It is vital that the report answer the 4 basic questions set at the beginning: namely, where, why, when and how has the TNC globalized? Further writing help is provided by the following: Odegaard Writing Ctr & Geography Writing Ctr
Week 9: Governance
Nov 24	Lecture 16: The rise of market-based governance Reading: Chapter 7
Nov 25	NO SECTION TODAY - USE TIME TO WORK ON TERM PAPER Reading: Chapter 7
Nov 26	THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY
Nov 27	THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY
Weekly assignments: Revise term paper to hand in for final grading at section in the coming week.
Week 10: Health
Dec 1	Lecture 17: The Social Determinants of Global Health Outcomes Reading: World Health Organ ization Report, Executive Summary
Dec 3	Lecture 18: The Social Determinants of Global Health Interventions Reading: Remapping the terrain of global health
Section	Review lecture and reading material for Final
Weekly assignments: Finish term paper to hand in for final grading at section.
Week 11: Alternatives
Dec 8:	Lecture 18: Utopias, E-scapes, Ironies and Alternatives Click here to find out more about the kinds of alternative commodity chains that Global Exchange seeks to build. Also check out the UW Students for Fair Trade website at http://students.washington.edu/sfft/ Reading: Catch up missed readings from earlier in the quarter
Dec 10	Lecture 19: Awards for best research initiative and best online maps. Preparation for Final including discussion of 10 short answer question materials. Reading: Catch up missed readings from earlier in the quarter
Section	Section II: TAs administer student evaluations and review class material for final exam
Final Examination Monday, DECEMBER 14, 2008, Kane 130 from 10:30-12:20