Spatial Processes of Economic Globalization (Group A)

3 credit hours · Undergraduate

The world economy has been reconfigured by an increasingly interconnected global movement of goods, money, information and people. Students are provided with an overview of various aspects of global economic processes with case studies looking at locally specific outcomes. Themes covered include: uneven development and debates around globalization, the changing structures of major industrial/economic sectors, new international division of labour, and the role of geography in the global economic processes.