(WEEK 2) Global and Regional Development Graduate Course - Updated Syllabus, Readings and Newspaper Articles

Dear all,
 
I updated our course syllabus and you will receive it by email. Your final paper will be at least 6000 words (not 8000 words) and everyone will present their final papers.  

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

Urbanization and City
Urbanism as a Way of Life by Louis Wirth
 Development: Theory and Reality (You will receive by email)
The Metropolis and Mental Life by Georg Simmel

For next week, please bring a newspaper article related with critical understanding of URBANIZATION IN LATIN AMERICA

You can also present your last week article as well.

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.

Class structure for next week:

20 Minutes Newspaper Article Presentation
Lecture on Development Theories and Urbanization
Documentary: The Corporations (2003) Or Born Into Brothels (2004)

Best to all,

Tugrul Keskin
Associate Professor
Shanghai University
 
Editor of Sociology of Islam Journal (Brill)
Region Editor of Critical Sociology (Middle East and North Africa)
Book Review Editor of Societies Without Borders