GLOBALIZATION AND ITS DISCONTENT.

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Pre-requisites: sophomore standing. Satisfies: a university graduation requirement–global studies. Explores the nature of globalization as both a historical phenomenon and contemporary reality. Addresses how increasingly rapid sociocultural change around the world has led to an array of movements that are dissatisfied with and opposed to globalization. Examines how resistance to globalization has led to ethnic, nationalist, and class-based collective social, political, and economic actions throughout the world.