Globalization and Culture

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

Globalization has been economically transforming the world, as national borders become increasingly irrelevant before the global flow of money and goods. But globalization also has a great impact on cultures across the globe, as products from Coca-Cola to Facebook, and ideas from human rights to standards of beauty to ideologies of terrorism and viruses such as covid-19, intrude everywhere. This transforms the meanings of culture, as increasingly we no longer belong to a society based in a certain place, but to a global society, and a global “cultural supermarket.” This course examines how globalization has been transforming the meanings of culture in today’s world.