Course Name: Globalization and Culture

Course abstract

Globalization is one of the most talked about words in the contemporary world and dominates discussions in the media, academics and everyday life. Cultural theorists have used the term to refer to political, economic, social and cultural transformations that have occurred in the last decade of the twentieth century. It appears that everyone on the planet is affected by globalization but not in the same way. Yet most people have only a fuzzy understanding of what globalization means because of the number of things it means to a wide variety of people. The different dimensions of globalization such as the rise of global capital and markets, new media and communication technologies, dissolution of political borders, and growth of consumerist culture cannot be seen in isolation from one another. But people tend to examine them separately or through the compartmentalized frames of different disciplines. The course has three main objectives: To provide a thorough grounding in the philosophical and theoretical debates on globalization To examine the economic, political, social, cultural issues covered by the debate and their impact on contemporary cultures, particularly in the developing world To enable students to understand competing definitions of globalization and to show that globalization’s effects are felt differently by different people


Course Instructor

Media Object

Prof. Anjali Gera Roy

Anjali Gera Roy is a Professor in the Department of Humanities of Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, who works on fiction, film and performance traditions of India, diasporas and Punjab. She is the author of Cinema of Enchantment: Perso-Arabic Genealogies of the Hindi Masala Film (Hyderabad: Orient Blackswan 2015) and Bhangra Moves: From Ludhiana to London and Beyond (Aldershot: Ashgate 2010). She has edited Imagining Punjab, Punjabi and Punjabiat in the Transnational Era (London: Routledge 2015) and The Magic of Bollywood: At Home and Abroad (Delhi: Sage 2012). She has also co-edited (with Chua Beng Huat) The Travels of Indian Cinema: From Bombay to LA (Delhi: OUP 2012) and (with Nandi Bhatia) Partitioned Lives: Narratives of Home, Displacement and Resettlement (Delhi: Pearson Longman 2008). In addition, she has published 100 essays in literary, film and cultural studies. She has been a Baden Wurttemberg Professorial Fellow in the South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg, a Western Fellow, Visiting University Scholar Program in the University of Western Ontario, London, Senior Visiting Research Fellow & Senior Research Fellow in the Asia Research Institute,National University of Singapore, Senior Research Fellow of the Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute and Visiting Fellow in the Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University Canberra.
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Teaching Assistant(s)

MADHUMITA ROY

ZENIA NANRA

 Course Duration : Jul-Sep 2016

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 Syllabus

 Enrollment : 23-May-2016 to 18-Jul-2016

 Exam registration : 02-Aug-2016 to 19-Aug-2016

 Exam Date : 18-Sep-2016, 25-Sep-2016

Enrolled

664

Registered

39

Certificate Eligible

28

Certified Category Count

Gold

0

Elite

6

Successfully completed

22

Participation

3

Success

Elite

Gold





Legend

>=90 - Elite + Gold
60-89 - Elite
40-59 - Successfully Completed
<40 - No Certificate

Final Score Calculation Logic

  • Assignment Score = Average of best 6 out of 8 assignments.
  • Final Score(Score on Certificate)= 75% of Exam Score + 25% of Assignment Score
Globalization and Culture - Toppers list

SHEFFIN M B 77%

DISTRICT INDUSTRIES CENTRE

VIVEK NAMDEV 69%

TATA INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES

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