International and Area Studies

• INTS 210: Global Issues

INTS 210: Global Issues

This course is a survey of international social, political, and cultural patterns in selected societies of Africa, Asia, America, and Europe, stressing comparative analysis of twentieth-century conflicts and change in different historical contexts.

Required Textbooks

• Schaeffer, Understanding Globalization, 3rd edition (2005) ISBN 978-0742541665
• Lechner and Boli, editors, The Globalization Reader, 3rd edition (2008) ISBN 978-1-4051-5553-3
• Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth (2005) ISBN 978-0802141323
• Polanyi, The Great Transformation, 2nd edition (2001) ISBN 978-0807056431

You may purchase the textbooks at the Higher Grounds bookstore in person, online, or by mailing or faxing in the book order form. Refer to the online ordering site for current book prices. Please see Textbooks for textbook purchase dates.

Course Details

• Instructor: David Pizzo, PhD
• Department: Curriculum in International and Area Studies
• Credit hours: 3
• UNC-Chapel Hill perspectives/requirements fulfilled: The Office of Undergraduate Curricula has links to information about which perspectives this course fulfills under the “Pre-2006 Curriculum” and which requirements it fulfills under the new curriculum (see “2006 Curriculum”).
• View sample course syllabus.

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