1. komponenta

Lecture type	Total
Lectures	30
Seminar	15

* Load is given in academic hour (1 academic hour = 45 minutes)

Define globalization, explain its development and emergence, and the different discourses in interpreting the globalization process. View the phenomenon of globalization from multiple aspects - economic, political, social, and environmental. Become familiar with the phenomena of institutional, regional, and economic integration and understand globalization processes in the relations between the developed and underdeveloped world. Become familiar with global demographic, especially migration trends, as well as contemporary global political phenomena and processes that particularly concern Croatia and its position i.e. role in globalization. Become familiar with sustainable development, its meaning, and contemporary environmental problems (climate change, global warming, ecological footprint). Develop professional competencies in the core science and competencies for independent research.
COURSE CONTENT
Lectures:
1. What is globalization?
2. Beginnings and development of globalization.
3. International organizations.
4. Aspects of globalization - Economic aspect of globalization.
5. Political aspect of globalization.
6. Demographic aspect of globalization.
7. Cultural aspect of globalization.
8. Globalization and developing countries.
9. Global vs. local.
10. Globalization and environmental problems.
11. Anti/alternative globalization movements.
12. Croatia in the process of globalization.

1. Prezentacije s nastave (u PDF-u) postavljene na web stranici Geografskog odsjeka.
2. Lončar, J., 2022: Geografske osnove globalizacije, Nastavna skripta, neobjavljeno.
3. M. B. Steyer, A. Wahlarab, What is global studies? Theory and Practice.(Routledge, 2017.)
4. J. Michie, Advanced Introduction to Globalization (Elgar Advanced Introductions series, UK, USA, 2017.)

Izborni kolegiji - Regular study - Environmental Sciences