STA. ELENA (CAM. NORTE) COLLEGE INC.

Purok 10, Brgy. Sta. Elena (Poblacion), Sta. Elena, Camarines Norte
Tel. No. 054-201-3839

COURSE SYLLABUS

INSTITUTIONAL VISION: The Sta. Elena (Cam. Norte) College Inc. envisions to be a leading educations institution in the province of Camarines Norte. It is fully
committed to quality education and build character for a humane society, inculcate culture of research, promote inclusiveness in diversity, develop a sense of
environmental stewardship, and initiate advancement of technology, with administrators, faculty, students, and alumni who are excellent and responsive to the
needs of time.

INSTITUTIONAL MISSION: The Sta. Elena (Cam. Norte) College Inc. provides learning environment conducive to the enhancement of skills, formation of good
character and develop competencies necessary and relevant to produce professionals who are highly competitive and research-oriented, technically proficient and
with a deep sense of social responsibility to the community and to the world.

SUBJECT CODE: GE3

SUBJECT DESCRIPTION:
This course introduces students to the contemporary world by examining the multifaceted phenomenon of globalization. Using the various disciplines of the social
sciences, it examines the economic, social, political, technological, and other transformations that have created an increasing awareness of the
interconnectedness of peoples and places around the globe.
To this end, the course provides an overview of the various debates in global governance, development, and sustainability.
UNIT: 3 Units
COURSE: The Contemporary World
DAY/TIME:
TIME ALLOTMENT: 48 hrs.
INSTRUCTOR: Marjhon O. Giroy, LPT, MAEd

SCOPE:
This course is designed for the students to learn, be aware and take responsibility of what is happening now and in the future for they are a citizen of this
contemporary world. Beyond exposing the student to the world outside the Philippines, it seeks to inculcate a sense of global citizenship and global ethical
responsibility.
At the end of the course, the students must be able to:
A. Competencies
1. Distinguish different interpretations of and approaches to globalization.
2. Describe the emergence of global economic, political, social, and cultural systems.
3. Analyze the various contemporary drivers of globalization.

4. Understand the issues confronting the nation – state.

5. Assess the effects of globalization on different social units and their responses.
B. Skills
1. Analyze contemporary news event in the contest of globalization.
2. Analyze global issues in relation to Filipinos and the Philippines.
3. Write a research paper with proper citations on a topic related to globalization.
C. Values
1. Articulate personal on various
2. Identify the ethical of global citizenship

LEARNING OUTLINE AND TIMEFRAME

WEEKS COURSE CONTENT/ SUBJECT MATTER

1. Introduction to Globalization

- Defining globalization
Week 1-2

2. The Structures of Globalization

- The Global Economy

- Market Integration
Week 3-4
- Contemporary Global Governance

Week 5 Preliminary examination

 3. A World of Regions

Week 6-7 - Global Media Cultures

- The Globalizations of Religions

4. A World of Ideas

- Global Media Cultures

Week 8-9 - The Globalization of Religion

Week 10 Midterm Examination

5. Global Population and Mobility

- The Global City

Week 11-12
- Global Demography
- Global Migration

6. Towards a sustainable World

Week 13 - Sustainable Development

- Global Food Security

Week 14 Pre – final Examination

Week 16-17 7. Conclusion

- Global Citizenship
 - Research paper writing

Final Examination
Week 18

LEARNING PLAN
DESIRED LEARNING SUBJECT REFERENCE/S TEACHING & LEARNING ASSESS RESOURCE TIME
OUTCOMES MATTER ACTIVITIES MENT MATERIALS ALLOCA
TASKS TION
-Introduce self to classmates Course Course Syllabus Classroom sharing(introductions) Quiz Google Meet 3hrs
and teachers Overview
Introduce textbook: Manfred Lecture Recitation Google
-List expectations for the Classroom Stregger, Paul Battersby, and Classroom
Personal concept map of FB Messenger
course Policies Joseph M. Siracusa, eds. 2014.
globalization: students will engage
The SAGE Handbook of
- Recall course rules in a free association exercise of
Globalization.
ideas they associate with
- Write a personal definition
Two vols. Thousand Oaks: “globalization.”
of globalization based on a SAGE
concept map Based on the concepts they list,
they will synthesize a personal
definition of the concept.
-Differentiate the Competing Introduction to Reading Materials Lecture/Discussion Quiz Google Meet 3hrs
conceptions of globalization the Study of
Chapter 2 of textbook: News report critique: Google
Globalization
- identify the underlying “Approaches to the study of Classroom
Students will find and read three Recitation FB Messenger
philosophies of the varying Globalization” by Manfred B.
newspaper op – eds(local or
definitions of globalization Steger international) discussing
for the course globalization. Before class, they will
Steger, Manfred B. Ideologies
write 50 – word summaries of each
of Globalization.” 2005.
op – ed, definition globalization the
Journal of Political Ideologies
op – ed writers use.
10(1): 11 – 30.
Identify the actors that Global Reading Materials Debate: The students will debate Quiz Google Meet 3hrs
facilitate Economic Economy the motion. “That global free trade
Globalization Chapter 9 of textbook: “The has done more harm than good.” Recitation Google
Globalization of Economic Classroom
-Define the modern world FB Messenger
Relatiopns” by Istvan Bemczes
system
Wallerstein, Immanuel. 2004.
- Articulate a stance on “The Modern World – System
global economic Integration as a Capitalist World Economy:
Production, Surplus – Value,
and Polarization.” In world
Systems Analysis: An
Introduction Durham &
London: Duke University Press,
pp 23 – 41.
Explain the role of Market Reading Materials: Lecture/Discussion Quiz Google Meet 3hrs
international financial Integration
Chapter 17 of textbook: “The Google
institutions in the creation
Rise of the Global Recitation Classroom
of a global Economy Film viewing and discussion
Corporation” by Deane FB Messenger
- Narrate a short history of Neubauer Bello, Walden F.
global market integration in 2006. “The Multiple Crises of
the twentieth century Global Capitalism.” In
Deglobalization: Ideas for a
- identify the attributes of
New World Economy. Quezon
global corporations
City: Ateneo de Manila
University Press pp. 1 – 31

Film: “The Corporation”

directed by Mark Achbar and
Jennifer Abbott
-Explain the effects of The Global Reading Materials Lecture/Discussion Quiz Google Meet 3hrs
globalization on Interstate
System Chapter 7 of Google
Governments
textbhook: “Governments and Recitation Classroom
-Identify the Institutions that Citizens in a Globally FB Messenger
Interconnected World of
govern international Stats” by Hans Schattle
Relations Differentiate Mazower, Mark. 2006. “An
internationalism from - International Civilation?
Globalism Empire, Internationalism and
the Crisis of the Mid –
Twentieth Century.”

International Affairs 82(3):

553 – 566
Functions of the United Global Reading Materials Lecture/Discussion Google Meet 3hrs
Nations
Governance Chapter 29 of textbook: Quiz Google
-Identify the challenges of “The united Nations Meets the Classroom
global governance in the Twenty – first Century: Recitation FB Messenger
twenty – first century Governance “by Thomas G.
explain the relevance of the
Weiss and Ramesh thakur
state amid globalization
Hobsbawn, Eric J. 1996. The
Future of the State.
“Development and Change
27(2): 267 – 278
-Define the term “Global Global Divides: Reading Materials Lecture/Discussion Quiz Google Meet 3hrs
South”
The North and Chapter 12 of textbook: Google
- Diffrentiate the Global the South(focus “Locating the Global South” by Classroom
Recitation
South from the Third World on Latin Lisandro E. Claudio Connnell, FB Messenger
America) Raewyn. 2007.” Dependency.
Autonomy and Culture. In .
- Analyze how a new
conception relations Southern Theory. The Global
emerged from the Dynamics of Knowledge in
experiences of Latin Social Science. Cambridge,
American Countries UK : Polity Press, pp. 139 –
163.
-Differentiatebetween Asian Reading Materials Lecture/Discussion Quiz Google Meet 3hrs
regionalization and Regionalism
Chapter 13 of textbook: Google
Globalization “Globalization ang the Asia Classroom
Pacific and South Asia” by FB Messenger
-Identify the factors leading Recitation
Ehito Kinura
to a greater integration of
the Asian region. Shiraishi, Takashi 2006. “The
Third
-Explain how globalization Reading Materials Lecture/discussion Quiz Google Meet 3hrs
affects religious practices The
Globalization of Chapter10 of textbook: Google
and beliefs
Religion “Religion and Globalization” Classroom
Recitation FB Messenger
- Analyze the relationship by Victor Roudomet of
between religion and global
conflict and conversely, Chapter 43 of textbook:
global Peace “Religion and Global Conlict
“by Mark Juergensmeyer

Film: PBS Frontline : “The Rise

of ISIS”

(http.//www.pbs.org/wgbh/
frontline/film/rise-of-isis/)
-Identify the attributes of The Global City Reading Materials Lecture/Discussion Quiz Google Meet 3hrs
global city
Chapter 26 of textbook: Google
-Analyze how cities serve as Mobility, Classroom
engines of Globalization Recitation FB Messenger
Diversity and Community in
the Global
-Analyze the political, Global Reading Materials Lecture/discussion Quiz Google Meet 3hrs
economic, cultural, Migration
Castles, Stephen, 2000. OFW Interview: Each Student will Google
And social factors underlying “International Migration at the Classroom
Be asked to interview a former or a Recitation FB Messenger
the global movements of Beginning of the Twenty –
current OFW (face-to-face or
people First Century: Global Trends online). In class they will share
and Issues.” International what they learned from these
-Display first – hand
Social Science Jornal 52(165): interviews about transnationalism
 knowledge of the 269 – 281. and the factors that affect global
experiences of OFW’s migrations.
Aguilar, Filomeno V. 2012

“Differentiating Sedimented
from Modular
Transnationalism: The View
from East Asia.” Asian and
Pacific Migration Journal
21(2): 149 – 171.
Define global food security Global Food Lecture/discussion Reading materials Quiz Google Meet 3hrs
Security
Chapter 50 of textbook: “Global Google
Food Security: The Challenge of Classroom
Recitation FB Messenger
Feeding the World” by Monika
Barthwal – Datta McMichael,
Philip. 2009. “ A Food Crisis.
Agriculture and Human Values
26(4): 281 – 95.

Suggested Readings Steger, Manfred B.,Batter sby, an d Joseph M. Siracusa, eds. 2014. The SAGE Handbookof Globalization. Two Volumes

Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications.

Other Readings:

Aguilar, Filomeno V. 2012.”Differentiating Sedimented from Mdular Transnationalism:

The View from East Asia.” Asian and Pacific Migration Journal 21(2): 149 – 171.

Bello, Walden F. 2006 “The Multiple Crises of Global Capitalism.” In Deglobalization:

Ideas for a New World Economy, pp. 1- 31.
 Castles, Stephen, 2000. International Migration at the beginning of the Twenty – First
Century; Global Trends and Issues.” International Social Science Journal 52
(165): 269 – 281

Carter, April 2001. “Global Civil Society: Acting as Global Citizens” in the Political
Theory of Global Citizenship, pp. 147 – 176

London: Routledge.

Hobsbawn, Eric J. 1996. The Future of the State. “Development and Change 27(2): 267
– 278

Lee, Ronald. 2003 “The Demographic Transition; Three Centuries of Fundamental

Change, “Journal of Ecnomic Perspectives 17(4): 167 – 190.

Lesthaeghe, Ron. 2010. “The Unfolding Story of the Second DemographicTransition.”

Population and Development

Review 36(2): 211 – 251.

Livi – Bacci, Massiomo, 2005. “What We Can and Cannot Learn from the History of
World Population. Population Studies. A journal of Demography 69(S1): S21 – S28.

Mazower, Mark. 2006. “ An International Civilization?Empire, Internationalism and the

Crisis of the Mid – Twenieth Century.” International Affairs 82(3): 553 – S28.
 McMichael, Philip. 2009. “ A Food Crisis. Agriculture and Human Values 26(4): 281 –
95.

Sassen, Saskia 2005.” The Global City: Introducing a Concept.” Brown Journal of World
AffairsXI(2): 27 – 43.

Shiraishi, Takashi. 2006. “The Third Wave: Southeast Asia and Middle – Class
Formation in the Making of a Region “In Beyond Japan: The Dynamics of East Asian
Regionalism, edited by Pter Katzenstein and Tashi Shiraishi, pp. 237 – 271. Ithaca,

NY: Cornell University Press.

Course Requirements

Grading system Written Works………………….30%

Performance……………………30%
Project…………………………..40%
Total………………………100%
21st Century Literacy Legends:
Integration
C1. Character C4. Critical Thinking
C2. Citizenship C5. Collaboration
C3. Communication C6. Creativity

Prepared by: Noted by: Inspected by: Approved by:

MARJHON O. GIROY, LPT, MAEd. RONNIE T. TAVARRO, PhD, RPsy NOLI D. BAYANI, MD, CFP, MMHoA, DEM NOLI D. BAYANI, MD, CFP, MMHoA, DEM
Instructor Program Head, AB Psychology Vice President for Academic Affairs School President