edX Course: Age of Globalization

The University of Texas at Austin

Description:

This course is designed to help the students identify the cultural systems and the historical systems that have driven globalization and changed societies all across the globe. The best way to understand globalization is by studying it as universal systems of connectivity and competition. To study this course on Age of Globalization, you should be an undergraduate so that you have basic knowledge and familiarity with the concepts. It is expected that the student is at least familiar with the general ideas on globalization and can follow the terms and vocabulary associated with the concept of globalization.

In this course, the students will made to analyze the phenomenon of globalization; these are man-made systems which hold universal control over transport, governance, communications and entertainment. These very systems have also triggered the emergence of worldwide criminal networks.

Under this course, you will be taught topics such as the worldwide labor markets, sports, language diversity, national identity, climatic changes etc. The truth of the matter is that even a rise in integration vis-a-vis globalization could not bring about equality. Instead globalization has given birth to distinct classes of winners and losers between global corporations and nations. This has made competition cutthroat and ruthless.

Globalization reveals connectivity and in the absence of vast electronic networks which inject strong cultural products in each and every society, you cannot fathom the essence of this process of globalization. To understand how the world works, one has to therefore identify and evaluate the global systems. You should experiment with the EdX demo course before you start on the Age of Globalization. This demo course will help you study in an interactive and virtually stimulating learning environment.