TNS 112LR—Globalization and Social Justice

This course offers students an introduction to the globalized and ever more connected world of today through the eyes of social movement leaders from across the world who work to make the world more just. These include movements for a more accountable and egalitarian world economy, as well as movements for racial and gender justice, and they can include movements to end world poverty, for national self-determination, for civil rights, for immigrant rights, against slavery and human trafficking, for gender and sexual equality, and for a more sustainable relationship between humans and their natural environment. The course places the successes and limitations of these movements in historical perspective and also gives students a panoramic view of the diversity of humans and their dreams and aspirations.