Globalization

Code: ECN15142O

6 ECTS

Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours

Scientific Area: Economy

Teaching languages: Portuguese

Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese

Regime de Frequência: Presencial

Sustainable Development Goals

Erradicar a pobreza - Acabar com a pobreza em todas as suas formas, em todos os lugares

Educação de qualidade - Assegurar a educação inclusiva, e equitativa e de qualidade, e promover oportunidades de aprendizagem ao longo da vida para todos.

Trabalho digno e crescimento económico - Promover o crescimento económico sustentado, inclusivo e sustentável, emprego pleno e produtivo, e trabalho decente para todos.

Indústria, inovação e infraestruturas - Construir infraestrutura resiliente, promover a industrialização inclusiva e sustentável, e fomentar a inovação.

Reduzir as desigualdades - Reduzir as desigualdades dentro dos países e entre eles.

Produção e consumo sustentáveis - Assegurar padrões de produção e de consumo sustentáveis.

Learning Goals

Learning objectives:
? Understand the multiplicity of factors that anchor the dynamics of Globalization
? Analyze International Political Economy approaches to Globalization
? Examine intensity, characteristics and trends of international trade and foreign investment flows
? Diagnose causes that motivated the emergence and consolidation of regional integration blocks
? Know and operationalize methodologies and indicators for measuring the different components of Globalization
? Identify and characterize economic, social and environmental challenges in favor of Sustainable Development
? Create conditions to design and implement Public Policies to combat Inequality in Developing Countries
? Promote literacy on Economic Diplomacy, especially the various channels of intervention, and the new role of different public and private actors

Skills:
? Develops critical thinking about the complexity of Globalization
? Promotes collaborative practices through collective work
? Stimulates creativity in defining and communicating intervention strategies

. Syllabus Alphanumeric field (1000 characters).
Introduction: object and objectives of the course
1. Methodological aspects of Globalization and approach from a historical point of view
2. Visions of International Political Economy on Economic Globalization
3. Big Trends in Global Trade
4. International trade and economic growth
5. FDI, Global Value Chains and Globalization: The shocks of the 2020s
6. Globalization measurement methodologies and indicators
7. Role of regional blocs in a globalized world
8. Trade, Investment and Sustainable Development
9. Environmental responsibilities in the global context
10. Globalization and Human Rights
11. Globalization, Identity and Otherness
12. Financial globalization: historical evolution and future perspectives
13. Public Policies and Inequality in Developing Countries
14. Development in the face of geopolitical and geoeconomic challenges
15. Challenges of Economic Diplomacy in the Global Economy

Teaching Methods

UC taught remotely, in synchronous contact sessions with presentation of materials and subsequent discussion. The sessions will have an expository component and an applied part. The teaching resources will be. Moodle will be used as a resource in organizing the Course and accessing learning materials, made available in advance of the respective class, and will be the core of teacher/student interaction. Thus, depending on the UC's operating model and respective methodologies, autonomous work (research and reading of articles) and oral communication will be encouraged, through the presentation and discussion of individual or collective work (collaborative work), stimulating creativity with the exposure of their own reflections, developing students' own reflection, especially through self-assessment and their critical sense. We will seek to relate learning with diverse real contexts and experiences, taking into account the fact that the target audience comes from the PALOP with a wide variety of sociocultural experiences and ways of inserting the countries into the global economy. In this way, in order to focus learning in real contexts, students will be challenged to propose solutions to practical issues inherent to the realities in which they operate, especially by outlining intervention projects. We will disseminate fundamental research in the field of the course, especially that published in scientific articles and books.

Assessment

The final assessment is based on the assessment of a written work on topics included in the syllabus, and can be carried out individually or in a group (no more than three students). This work will be accompanied by tutorial guidance and will be anchored in research on the topic, from which a document will be prepared that will comply with requirements to be defined in terms of structure, content and dimension. Comments and suggestions will be made on initial versions of the work with the aim of improving it. These works will be presented orally and discussed in the final sessions. The person responsible for the UC will centralize the evaluation process, considering the written document, its presentation and discussion. The classification must be higher than 10 points for the student to obtain approval. The evaluation processes corresponding to the appeal exams and special and extraordinary periods will take place in the form of a written exam, on dates to be defined. Since the universe of students (i.e., coming from different Portuguese-speaking countries), some flexibility and, eventually, some adjustments to what was planned will be necessary.

Teaching Staff

José Manuel Martins Caetano [responsible]

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