| Date: 13 - 17 August 2012 Place:
Draft due by: 14 September 2012 Final version due by: 19 October 2012 For further details contact: Course leader and organizer: May Thorseth, Professor, Philosophy Department, Leader of Globalization Program focus area Intercultural Dynamics: Communication, Responsibility and Development, NTNU Co-organizer: Allen Alvarez, Postdoc, Philosophy Department, NTNU NTNU Globalization Research Programme Administrative Coordinator Advisor Chamila Attanapola |
| COURSE DESCRIPTION | COURSE READINGS |
COURSE SCHEDULE |
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PhD course critically examines key concepts,
theories, methodologies, and ethical issues in
investigating globalization processes. These
issues include debates about what globalization
is, approaches to understanding the complexities
of globalization processes, global justice and
democracy, and global health ethics. The course aims to · critically analyze theoretical, methodological, and ethical issues in globalization that are relevant to the PhD projects of participants. The analysis includes a review of perspectives on how globalization processes affect politics, economics, culture, and ideology. It also includes discussion of issues in epistemology and methodology of social sciences which is important in developing a critical understanding of theories and methods used in investigating globalization processes · set
the stage for deliberating research issues with
other researchers and stimulate innovative
thinking |
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Lecturers
Torbjørn Lindstrøm Knutsen (NTNU) Jan Aart Scholte (University of Warwick) May Thorseth (NTNU) Torbjörn Tännsjö (Stockholm University) Reidar Lie (University of Bergen) Course topics: Methodological
issues in globalization research
History of globalization Theories of globalization Global democracy, global communication and fundamentalism Globalization, health, and global health justice Course credits: 10 ECTS |
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| Organized under the
auspices of NTNU's Globalization
Research Program |
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