Fall 2009 Assignments Page

Assignment #5: due class time Thursday, 19 November 2009

Your assignment (around 500 words) is to "tell the story" of an internationally produced commodity you find important and/or interesting. You may ask yourself:

• Where is it made, and how is it made?
• Who makes it, and who profits most?
• Do you consider the manufacture and/or use of this product "ethical?

You might also wish to review Annie Leonard's awesome THE STORY OF STUFF.

Each of the six continental groups will make a presentation on either Tuesday, 27 October 2009 or Thursday, 29 October 2009. Suggested length for the presentation is 20 minutes.

Each individual group member will need to address briefly the following:

• How is your country aligned, politically and economically?
• How does globalization affect your country?
• Which aspects of globalization are most important to your country?

Each continental group will need to address briefly the following:

• How does globalization affect your continent?
• Which aspects of globalization are most important to your continent?

Assignment #3: due class time Tuesday, 3 November 2009

Your assignment (around 753 words) is to envision one particular aspect of globalization through the eyes of someone who is 1) from the country you are representing in the roleplay, and 2) as little like you as possible. That is, attain the perspective of (apply as many of these as possible) someone from

• a different socio-economic background
• a different level of education
• a different religious background
• a different citizenship status

Do not feel obligated to write as someone of the opposite gender, although you are more than welcome to do so. Also, feel free to add additional layers of "difference" as they may occur to you.

1. Your assignment (500 words) is to contribute an Aarticle to the Scholte Speak Part Duex project.
2. You are encouraged to read (and respond to, if you wish) the earlier Scholte Speak Aarticles contributed by your colleagues from last semester, but you will be evaluated on your own work.
3. Sharing your personal experiences is great. Encouraged, even. But be sure to address Scholte's comments.
4. Do your utmost to translate the ScholteSpeak into the sort of globalizationlanguage from which a Global Studies student at Missouri State University can, easily and enjoyably, learn at least something.
5. Start your Assignment 2 EefyWiki page by going here

1. Your assignment is to finish creating your own EefyWiki homepage and write a brief essay entitled "Globalization As I Understand It."
2. The essay should be about 800 words, and does not need to be a formal definition. Rather, it should be a summary about what you already know about globalization and what you would like to know more about.
3. Please feel free to fixate upon topics which you find particularly important.
4. Please do not pad your essay with bilge, or with someone else's thinking.
5. Please, please, please include in your page title something unique to YOU. I can guarantee you that naming your page "MyFirstAssignment" will only result in chaos which could be easily solved by naming it "DYTassignment1" or something like that.