UCL - Globalization and its impacts on societies

[DVLP2170]

[30h] 5 credits

This course is taught in the 2d semester.

Teacher(s):

Language: French

Level: Second

Aims
Main themes
Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)

Aims

The objective is to provide to the student the analytical tools for a better understanding of developement issues from an interdisciplinary perspective and by emphasizing the spatial and time dimensions. The objective is to provide a better understanding of the evolution of contemporary societies from the perspective of these two dimensions.

Main themes

The course will start by a presentation of the main disciplinary approaches to globalization. Then it will focus on a set of key issues such as:

- Actors' strategies (individuals, group and international organizations)
- Interaction between socio-political and natural systems
- Sharing of resources and conflicts between global and local actors
- Articulation between resources reproductive system and social systems
- Social fragmentation and exclusion at national level
- Infra and inter national inequalities
- Social capital, Human capital and impoverishment.

Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)

The course DVLP 2675 is a good background to this course.