Assessment scheme

5.1 Assessment criteria

Lecture Attendance 5%; Seminar Attendance/Participation 5 x 3% 15%

Seminar PowerPoint Presentation: Groups 35%

Paper: Individual [based on PPP] 15% 3000 words; Exam 30%

Course content

1. Unit 1. Methodology 8 hours

Lecture 3. Language Aspect: transmitting meaning cross-culturally – 2 hr

Lecture 6. Ideological Aspect: Abrahamic, Buddhist, Confucian, Taoist, Marxist – 2 hr

Lecture 9. Resources Aspect: food, water, shelter, people, exploitable ‘natural’ – 2 hr

Lecture 12. Demographic Aspect: population shifts & growth – 2 hr

Texts and core literature: E. Said, Orientalism, S. Huntington, Clash of Civilizations

2. Unit 2. Issues in Asian Regions [a] Middle East [b] Far East 16 hours each

Middle East

Lecture 1. Fall of the Ottoman Empire 1900-1917

Lecture 4. Rise of the House of Saud 1902-1932

Lecture 7. The Twice-Promised Land 1917-1947

Lecture 10. Conflicting views of individual/state/boss

Lecture 13. OPEC/WTO/Capital City Stratos

Far East

Lecture 2. Japanese Imperialism

Lecture 5. Chinese Revolutions

Lecture 8. Korean Divide

Lecture 11. Conflicting views of individual/state/boss

Lecture 14. APEC/WTO/Capital City Stratos

Texts and core literature:

Mark Brothwick, Pacific Century

David Korten, When Corporations Rule the World

Misha Glenny McMafia: a journey through the global criminal underground

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