Course Name：Economic globalization and regional development
Credits：2.0
Level：Undergraduate
Pre-requisite：Human geography, Economic Geography
Lecture Time: 36
Instructors: Prof. Weidong Liu, Prof. Mick Dunford
Course Description:
This course is designed to let students receive the following knowledge and abilities through lectures, interactive teaching and discussion: (1) The process of economic globalization and its causes; (2) Geographical research topics related to economic globalization; (3) The impact of economic globalization on regional development of different countries; (4) The globalization process of major industrial sectors; (5) China's development model and the “Belt and Road Initiative”
Topics and Schedule
1. Globalization and China
2. What happened with globalization?
3. Understanding globalization: capital, technology and the state I
4. Understanding globalization: capital, technology and the state II
5. Multinational Corporation and Global Production Network
6. Automotive industry
7. Textile and apparel industry
8. Globalization, development and inequality
9. Western capitalism: From the Post-war Boom to the financial crisis I
10. Western capitalism: From the Post-war Boom to the financial crisis II
11. Regional development in Europe
12. European Union’s structural and cohesion policy
13. Italian model and its regional development
14. The evolution of Chinese model
15. The Belt and Road Initiative of China: Alternative Globalization
16. Regional development and disparity in China
Grading
Open-book exam;
Textbook:
Peter Dicken. Global Shift. Translated by Weidong Liu. 2007, Beijing, Business Press.
