First-Year Seminar '07-'08
"What in the World Is Globalization?"

 

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      UNIT -A-   ◙  popular culture  ◙  job market

                                                                                                                                                                             
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READING
 

  8 / 28

 
  strongly recommended (and extra-credit given for):
world premier screening of "The Dying Fields" at St. John's U. library AV2 theater, 7 pm
 
  8 / 30  Th
 
     
 
  9 / 3  M

 
  Zoolander (movie)
Naomi Klein, "Introduction," No Logo
 
  9 / 5  W
 
  No Logo, ch. 1 - 3
 
  9 / 7  F




 
  Cindy Lauper, “Goonies” MTV video
Kanye West, "Diamonds from Sierra Leone" video, and the remix lyrics

Mos Def, "New World Water" lyrics
National Public Radio, "Brazil's Traditional Beats Revamped in Rio"
The World (radio), "Hip-Hop Planet" and also glance through their "Global Hit" archive
 
  9 / 11 T

 
  Franklin Foer, How Soccer Explains the World, "Prologue", ch. 4, and ch. 10
Adrian Campo-Flores, "A World of Cheer," Newsweek (14 May 2007): 56-7.
 
  9 / 13  Th
 
   
  9 / 17  M
 
   
  9 / 19  W


 
  No Logo, ch. 9-10
Thomas Friedman, "Anyone, Anything, Anywhere," New York Times (22 September 2006): A21.
Friedman, "Big Ideas and No Boundaries," New York Times (6 October 2006): A25.
 
  9 / 21  F