FACULTY OF HUMANITIES & SOCIAL SCIENCES
2014-15 SPRING SEMESTER OUTLINE
IRE 292 GLOBALIZATION AND ITS DIMENSIONS
Instructor:
Course Hours:
Office Hours:
E-mail:
Phone:
Murat SEVENCAN
WED 15:00 — 17:50
TUE 13:00 — 15:00 (with appointment through e-mail)
msevencan@ssu.edu.tr
+90.216.586.4636
AIM OF THE COURSE: The post-cold war international order sustains the expansion of a market
oriented global culture that transcends nation-states' boundaries. This transcendence brings not only
more trade and integration, but new challenges to very existence of both the nation and individual
on the all levels. The main aim of this course is to give an introductory insight for awareness,
recognition and if possible, anticipation of these macro level threats while not conditioning the
student for an anti-global agenda. Comprehension of globalization and its effect to concepts, such as
security, identity, environment, and lastly the daily life will be the general theme of this course.
While a course book will be followed on this course, for intending to position the students to center,
the individual project presentations will be distracting the given weekly plan.
OBJECTIVES OF THE COURSE: A student who completed this course should have a comprehensive
idea on;
 Globalization
 Threat perception
 Security
 National Interest
 National Security

TEACHING AND LEARNING STRATEGY & METHODS: Weekly schedule of the course is divided into
two partitions. The first part will be devoted to lectures for theory purposes and the second part will
be application of the concepts that is discussed on the first partition to real-life examples, current if
possible. This application part would be in the form of student presentations on topics, and if there is
a time extension, the second part will continue on the next session. While lecturing sessions of the
course, the outline of the course will be followed by an introductory lecture of the instructor and
detailed discussion of the students. The second part will be shaped by student input from current
events of the world.
Learning strategy is not simply following the course book by reading and digesting but also
participating to class discussion. Pre-reading is most crucial partition of students’ activity while the
course, in order to actively participate during the classes. The active participants of the second
partition of the course will be rewarded.
Course Book:
Steger, M. Globalization: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press, 2009, ISBN: 9780199552269
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FACULTY OF HUMANITIES & SOCIAL SCIENCES
2014-15 SPRING SEMESTER OUTLINE
IRE 292 GLOBALIZATION AND ITS DIMENSIONS
THE PROGRAM OF THE COURSE: The course’s topic distribution over weeks will be as follows
1st week
2nd week
rd
3 & 4th weeks
4th & 5th weeks
6th & 7th weeks
8th week
9th week
10th & 11th weeks
12th & 13th weeks
14th week
15th week
16th week
Introduction of the course and welcome
Ch 1. Globalization: a contested concept
Ch 2. Globalization and history
Ch 3. The economic dimension of globalization
Ch 4. The political dimension of globalization
Review
Midterm
Ch 5. The cultural dimension of globalization
Ch 6. The ecological dimension of globalization
Global Oriented threats: Informatics, Biology, Heat and all!
Ch 7. Ideologies of globalization
Ch 8. Assessing the future of globalization
GRADING:
Evaluation for final grade of this course would be as follows:
Criteria
Date
Attendance
Participation
Quiz / Peflection paper weeks 4, 7, and 13
Midterm
9th week
Student presentation
Final: Presentation Report Take-Home
Weight
10%
10%
15%
20%
20%
25%
Submission type
coming to class (on time)
active involvement in class
in-class / through turnitin
in-class exam taking
in class oral presentation
through turnitin
Work Submissions:
All works are accepted from turnitin website. All details of registering the website can be found at next
paragraph. Each submission will have a due date and late submissions will be possible for four weeks
after due. But late submissions will be evaluated with a percentage discount with 15% per week. (i.e. the
one minute to 6 days and 23 hours 59 minutes late submission will be graded out of 85%, for the 2 nd week
it will be out of 70%, for 3rd 55%, and for 4th week it will be out of 40%)
Submission website is http://www.turnitin.com. If you did not already used the website before, you must
create a user account and then sign-up for the turnitin class with the following information given;
Class ID: 9495720
Sign-up Password: IRE292
You can learn the registering and signing-up details from following training:
http://www.turnitin.com/en_us/training/student-training
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