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2010-2011 Undergraduate Bulletin 
    
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GS 120 - (IS) Global Transport and Logistics

Semester Hours: 3
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This interdisciplinary course intriduces the major components of the rapidly evolving global transport and communication systems, showing how this evolution has enabled the spread of global production networks, has facilitated greater access to new modes of data and information, and, paradoxically, has increased centralization of the distribution of that data and information. Drawing on literature from a wide range of disciplines and perspectives, the course highlights the ways in which transportation and the management of distribution are fundamental to the understanding of globalization, trade, and the use of logistics by corporations. The course also shows how the new modes of communication have transformed both trade and culture, altering not only the way we buy, sell and produce commodities, but also the social organization of place and space.





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