120-0332/06 – Globalization and International Organizations (GMO)
Gurantor department | Department of International Economic Relations | Credits | 4 |
Subject guarantor | Ing. Eva Kovářová, Ph.D. | Subject version guarantor | Ing. Eva Kovářová, Ph.D. |
Study level | undergraduate or graduate | Requirement | Compulsory |
Year | 3 | Semester | winter |
| | Study language | Czech |
Year of introduction | 2017/2018 | Year of cancellation | 2021/2022 |
Intended for the faculties | EKF | Intended for study types | Bachelor |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
1.To explain the process of globalization in its wide implications in the world economy and other part of the world society. To interpret status of main participants of the globalization.
3.To identify selected global issues.
4.To analyse the causes and results of global issues.
5.To explain the status of international organizations in the process of globalization and in solving of global issues.
6. To apply the knowledge on actual events in the world and new developing trends in the world.
Teaching methods
Lectures
Seminars
Summary
Subject is concentrated on the process of globalization, in its wide implications; the description of the main participants of the process of globalization; status and function of the most important international organizations; selected global issues, their causes and elimination of the results, possible solving of them and status of international organizations in this solving. The access is interdisciplinary with the aim to cover up whole social implications of the process of globalization and global issues.
Compulsory literature:
Recommended literature:
Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
1. Zpracování seminární práce – Tematický okruh 1 (rozsah: min 10 stran)
• Projevy globalizace, účastníci globálních vztahů
• Globalizace světové ekonomiky, Globalizace z perspektivy jednotlivých částí světa
• Globální problémy – globální nerovnost, chudoba a zaostalost a lidský rozvoj
• Globální problémy – globální zátěž životního prostředí, globální bezpečnost
2. Zpracování týmové práce – Tematický okruh 2 (rozsah: min 10 stran)
Studenti si zvolí mezinárodní organizaci a globální problém a popíší a zhodnotí postavení vybrané (vládní i nevládní) organizace při řešení daného problému.
3. Účast na cvičeních
E-learning
LMS Moodle
Other requirements
Other requirements are not demanded.
Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.
Subject syllabus:
1. Globalization
2. Globalization of the world economy
3. Globalization from selected world economy regions perspective
4. Participants of global economic relations
5. United Nations and its role in global security
6. International Monetary Fund and World Bank and their role in the world economy
7. Population growth as global problem
8. Developing economies and their backwardness and indebtedness
9. Poverty and human development
10. Environmental issues
11. Sustainable development
Conditions for subject completion
Occurrence in study plans
Occurrence in special blocks
Assessment of instruction