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Sunday, November 27, 2016

(WEEK 1) Global and Regional Development Graduate Course - TUESDAY 13:05 – 16:45 Classroom: A116

Dear all,

First of all, I am your instructor for this class. PLEASE READ THE SYLLABUS VERY CAREFULLY BEFORE YOU ATTEND THE CLASS and if you have any questions or concerns regarding the syllabus or class structure, please let me know by email or WeChat.  

We will have our first class –Global and Regional Development - starting next week. Every week, you will receive an email regarding a next week class readings and class discussion and I will post the same information on our class website: http://internationalstudiesandsociology.blogspot.com/

For the next week, we will read and discuss the following articles.  

Development
Development and Imperialism Henry Veltmeyer –
Canadian Journal of Development Studies Volume XXVI No: 1 2005
Introduction to Global Issues by VINAY BHARGAVA 
Against Imperialism’s ‘Development’  by Mateo Pimentel – Counterpunch - March 25, 2015
Introducing Globalization and Global Issues By Michael T. Snarr 
Human Development Index 2014 By United Nations Development Program

For next week, please bring a newspaper article related with critical understanding of development in Africa. 
Newspaper Articles: During the semester, you can bring 8 newspaper articles related with our class subjects. You cannot bring more than one article in the same week. You will have to summarize these articles in class and will find the recommended newspapers listed on http://internationalstudiesandsociology.blogspot.it/, under the external links section. Newspaper articles sent by email will not be accepted. Please bring it to class, the first page of the printed/hard copy of the article. You can only bring an article from the selected newspapers, posted on http://internationalstudiesandsociology.blogspot and you will find them under links section. Some of the recommended newspapers are The Guardian, Al-Jazeera, Democracynow.org, Financial Times, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Pravda, Haaretz, China Daily, and the Economist.

Best to all,

Tugrul Keskin
Associate Professor
Email: tugrulkeskin (at) t.shu.edu.cn
China: 86+15000-465734
Shanghai University - http://en.shu.edu.cn/Default.aspx

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