People vs. Profit:
The Corporation and Economic Globalization
- Fall 2005

Course Objectives and Syllabus
Office Hours/Tutorial Schedule
Attendance:
Grades (Grading Scale)
Books, Articles and Documentaries on Reserve in Library

Homework - Week 1

Assignments
Essay 1 10%
Essay 2 15%
Essay 3 20%
Final 20%
Student-led discussions 20%
Summaries/Note-Taking 15%

Reading and Writing Resources

General Sites
Brought to you by the Purdue University Online Writing Lab
Writing Center: Designed & maintained by University of Richmond students & faculty.
LEO: Writing Place Catalogue (General), By Sharon Cogdill and Judith Kilborn
Bilwrite
Bradford University Study Tips
Writing Center of the University of West Georgia
Hong Kong University English Centre

Reading
Preparing to Read
How to Read Essays You Must Analyze
What is Close Reading?
Critical Summary
Guide to Writing Critical Summaries

Critical Thinking
Critical Thinking
Argumentative Writing
Essays and Arguments: A Handbook on Writing Argumentative and Interpretative Essays
(Revised Edition, May 2000) by Ian Johnston Malaspina University College
Thinking Critically about World Wide Web Resources by Esther Grassian, UCLA College Library
Evaluating Web Resources by Jan Alexander and Marsha Ann Tate
Research using the Internet

Writing
Annotated Bibliography
Outlines for Essays
LEO: Plagiarism
Writing (Planning/Writing/Revising/Genres)
LEO: The Writing Process
LEO: Thesis Statements
LEO: Developing an Introduction
LEO: Conclusions
LEO: Punctuating Quotations
LEO: Using Quotations
LEO: Using Paraphrases
LEO: Introducing Quoted and Paraphrased Material
Argumentative Writing
Writing Argumentative Essays
ABC of Academic Writing & ABC of Essays
Advice on Academic Writing - University of Toronto

Writing Exam Essays
Tips on Essay Exams
OWL: Writing Essay Exams
Writing Exam Essays - Colgate University
Preparing for Essay Style Exams
Reducing Exam Anxiety and Improving Concentration

Presentations

The Modern Language Association Documentation Style (MLA)
and the American Psychological Association Documentation Style (APA)
LEO: MLA Documentation
MLA, APA, CBE Citation Style
APAStyle.org
 

Supplementary Readings and Content Resources

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Glossaries
A Basic Globalization Glossary UNPAC Manitoba
Glossary of globalization, trade and health terms
World Health Organization
Globalization Glossary Emory University
A Glossary of Political Economy Terms  by Dr. Paul M. Johnson
Glossary and Acronyms - British Department for International Development

Magazines/Journals
Znet
Elements
Resurgence - Globalizaton
Business Ethics Magazine
 Yale Global Online
The Economist
Forbes
Business Week

Globalization General
Globalresearch
Globalization 101
Globalization Guide
Global Trade Watch
Corporate Watch
Multinational Monitor
Corporate Social Responsibility Newswire
 No Logo
Union of Concerned Scientists
 Global Policy Forum
The International Society for Ecological Economics
Institute for Policy Studies
International Forum on Globalization
The UC Atlas of Global Inequality - University of California

Media/Propaganda
PR Watch
GlobalPublicMedia.com
Medialens
Adbusters
International Advertising in Developing Countries
 Critical Media Literacy in Times of War
Captive Kids: A Report on Commercial Pressure on Kids at School
 Commercialism in Education Research Unit (CERU) at Arizona State University
 The Propaganda Model of Mass Media A Blogby Darrell Moen, PhD
Media Channel

Corporations
Who Owns What Columbia Journalism Review

Interface
Cargill
Monsanto
Halliburton
Bechtel
General Electric
ExxonMobil
BP
Shell
Pfizer
 Wal-Mart
Wal-Mart Watch
Dow Chemical
IBM
General Motors
Dupont
Suez
Veolia Environment
Thames Water

International Institutions
United Nations
International Monetary Fund
World Bank
World Trade Organization

Social Responsibility
 ISO Standards for Corporate Social Responsibility
 The World Bank Corporate Social Responsibility Page
Industry Canada's Corporate Social Responsibility

Bhopal
Toxic Hotspots - Greenpeece
Bhopal Information Center - Union Carbide

Articles of Interest

Water Control
World Bank, WTO, and corporate control over water by Vandana Shiva
The Water Barons - CBC News
Korean Workers Prevent Water Privatization by Vivendi - Yong Chang Jang

Education and The Corporation
Democracy At Risk: Building Citizenship Skills through media Education by Renee Hobbs
globalization and the incorporation of education from infed: Informal Education
Privatizing the University--the New Tragedy of the Commons
James Robert Brown
The Rise of Intellectual Property Protection in The American University
Lita Nelson

Democracy
Democracy and Globalization John Ralston Saul
Propaganda Model by Chomsky and Herman (exerpt)
Program on Corporations Law and Democracy
28 Words to Redefine Corporate Duties The Proposal for a Code for Corporate Citizenship
By Robert Hinkley
Economic Globalization, the War with Iraq and the REAL Alternatives by Jerry Mander
 Ambitions of Empire: The Bush Administration Economic Plan for Iraq (and Beyond)By Antonia Juhasz

Work
Campaign for Labour Rights by Sarah Cox
Going Cheap by Kevin Bales
The Global Production Game exercise
The Growth of Slavery in North America PBS

Development and Globalization
Will Tribal Knowledge Survive the Millennium? Paul Alan Cox
Global Debt and Third World Development
By Vincent Ferraro and Melissa Rosser
The Scorecard on Globalization 1980-2000: Twenty Years of Diminished Progress By Mark Weisbrot, Dean Baker, Egor Kraev and Judy Chen
Fifty Years of the GATT/WTO: Lessons from the Past for Strategies for the Future C. Fred Bergsten Institute for International Economics

Globalization: Threat or Opportunity?” By IMF Staff
'Wake Up and Face the Flat Earth' – Thomas L. Friedman

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