Course Number:

Credit Hours:

4

Course Title:

Global Inequity

Course Description:

Evaluates different historical, economic, and cultural explanations of global socioeconomic inequality in the modern world. Examines why some parts of the world are much richer than others; why people so often divide the world as “the West and the rest,” or the First, Second, and Third Worlds; if these divisions have any reality; and how the social and economic status of individual nations are shaped by patterns and relationships that are global in scale. Also explores the ways in which peoples on different sides of this economic divide understand and depict themselves and one another, through cultural production, political thought, and social movements.