| Introduction | 
| 1 | Introduction: Why is Everyone Talking About Globalization? |  | 
| 2 | The Cultural Homogenization Debates: Hip Hop in Japan |   Condry, Ian. "Japanese Hip-Hop and the Globalization of Popular Culture." In Urban Life. Edited by G. Gmelch and W. Zenner. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press, 2001. ISBN: 9781577661948.
 
   Condry, Ian. "The Social Production of Difference: Imitation and Authenticity in Japanese Rap Music." In Tranactions, Transgressions, Transformations: American Culture in Western Europe and Japan. Edited by U. Poiger and H. Fehrenbach. Berghahn Books, 2000. ISBN: 9781571811080. | 
| 3 | The Economic and Political Debates |   Giddens, Anthony. "Globalization." Chapter 1 in Runaway World. New York: Routledge, 2002. ISBN: 9780415944878.
 
   Bourdieu, Pierre. "The Myth of 'Globalization' and the European Welfare State." In Acts of Resistance: Against the New Myths of Our Time. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 1998. ISBN: 9780745622187.
  "Enron: Seduction and Betrayal." New York Review of Books. 14 March 2002. | 
| Part 1: Histories Of The Global | 
| 4-5 | Global Histories Before Capitalism | Ghosh, Amitov. Into an Antique Land.  | 
| 6 | European Colonialism | Mintz, Sidney. Sweetness and Power. Introduction, and pp. 1-50.
  Recommended Readings
 
   Wolf, Eric. "The Slave Trade." Chapter 7 in Europe and the People Without History. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982. ISBN: 9780520048980.
 
   Hobsbawm, Eric. The Age of Empire, 1875-1914. London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1995. ISBN: 9780297816355. | 
| 7 | European Economic Expansion | Selections from Marx and Engels. The Communist Manifesto.
  Sweetness and Power. pp. 51-100.
  Recommended Readings
  Wolf, Eric. "The Industrial Revolution." Chapter 9 in Europe and the People Without History.
 
   Hobsbawm, Eric. "The French Revolution." Chapter 3 in The Age of Revolution. New York: Vintage Books, 1996. ISBN: 9780679772538. | 
| 8 | The Rise of Consumer Society, The Welfare State and the Third World | Sweetness and Power. pp. 101-186.
  Recommended Readings
 
   Terkel, Studs. Selections from Hard Times. New York: Pantheon Books, 1986. ISBN: 9780394746913.
 
   Hobsbawm, Eric. "Into the Economic Abyss." and "The Third World." Chapters 3 and 13 in The Age of Extremes. New York: Vintage Books, 1996. ISBN: 9780679730057. | 
| 9 | Film: Modern Times |  | 
| Part 2: Investigating Contemporary Globalization | 
| A. Transformations - Economic | 
| 10 | Deindustrialization and the Growth of Service Industries |   Bensman, David, and Roberta Lynch. Chapters 1, 2 and 4 in Rusted Dreams. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988. ISBN: 9780520063020. | 
| 11-12 | Film: Roger and Me. The Rise of High Tech | Coupland, Douglas. Microserfs.  | 
| 13 | New Industrialization in the "Third World" |   Wolf, Diane. Chapters 5, 6, and 8 in Factory Daughters: Gender, Household Dynamics and Rural Industrialization in Java. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994. ISBN: 9780520086579.
 
   Freeman, Carla. "Designing Women: Corporate Discipline and Barbado's Off-shore Pink-Collar Sector." In The Anthropology of Globalization. Edited by Jonathan Xavier Inda and Renato Rosaldo. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 2001. ISBN: 9780631222323. | 
| 14 | Theorizing the Economic Transformation |   Harvey, David. "The Political-Economic Transformation of Late Twentieth Century Capitalism." In Harvey, David. The Condition of Postmodernity. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 1992. ISBN: 9780631162940. | 
| B. Transformations - Political and Geographic | 
| 15 | The New Post-Cold War Geography |   Verdery, Katherine. Chapters 1 and 8 in What was Socialism, What Comes Next? Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996. ISBN: 9780691011325. | 
| 16 | Migrations | Epstein, Beth. Chapters 3, 4 and 5 in Collective Terms. Dissertation, New York University, 1988. | 
| 17 | Migrations (cont.) | Ong, Aihwa. "The Pacific Shuttle: Family, Citizenship, and Capital Circuits." In The Anthropology of Globalization.
 
   Rothenberg, Daniel. Preface and Chpater 1 in With These Hands. Berkeley: University Press, 2000. ISBN: 9780520227347. | 
| C. Transformations - Culture, Media and Technology | 
| 18 | Media in Motion
  Film: Clips From Indian Popular Films. | Larkin, Brian. "Indian Films and Nigerian Lovers: Media and the Creation of Parallel Modernities." In The Anthropology of Globalization.
 
   Ganti, Teja. "And Yet My Heart is Still Indian: Culture, Identity and the Bombay Film Industry." In Media Worlds: Anthropology on New Terrain. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. ISBN: 9780520232310.
  Appadurai, Arjun. "Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Political Economy." In The Anthropology of Globalization. | 
| 19 | Reworking Networks: From Activism to the Mafia
  Film: Clips From WTO Protests Showdown in Seattle. |   McLagan, Meg. "Computing for Tibet." In Media Worlds: Anthropology on New Terrain. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. ISBN: 9780520232310.
  Nordstrom, Carolyn. Selection from Extra-state Globalization of the Illicit. In On Deepter Reflection. Edited by Gusterson, H. and C. Besteman. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003.
  Handout on Russian Mafia from New York Review of Books.
  Hughes, Nancy Scheper. "The Traffic in Human Organs." In The Anthropology of Globalization. | 
| 20 | Biotech and the New Science
  Film: The Gene Hunters. | Brush, Stephen. "Bioprospecting the Public Domain." Culture Anthropology. 14 (1999).
  Reardon, Jenny. "The Human Genome Diversity Project." Social Studies of Science (2001). | 
| 21-23 | Student Presentations |  | 
| 24 | Judging Globalization in a Post-Iraq War Era | Ferguson, James. "Global Disconnect." In The Anthropology of Globalization.
  Cooper, Fred. "What is the Concept of Globalization Good For?" African Affairs. 100 (2001): 189-213. | 
| 25 | Conclusion |  |