Here are topics from the Friedman reading responses. Some may need to be narrowed further. Thanks to all for great suggestions.

Globalization and <insert your major here>

• globalization in education
• How has the construction industry been affected by globalization?
• Globalization and technical writing
• Globalization and health care

Globalization and specific products/ industries

• How globalization has improved different industries? Ex: Racing Industry
• How a specific product (the iPod, a chemical) is produced in a global economy

Globalization and current controversies

• outsourcing as hot topic [present and evaluate arguments from several perspectives].
• Is globalization in true sense possible given the current conflicts with race, and religion?

Globalization and standards

• how engineering standards are developed on a worldwide scale
• What are the standards for certain companies? Do they follow a national standard or more of just a company standard?

Globalization and communication

• How globalization can promote effective communication for efficient global productivity?
• How internet communication has allowed users to contact people never before possible
• How internet communication has (unfortunately) created avenues for predators [and spammers and criminals-- Nigerian schemes in the light of globalization?]
• What factors need to be considered in writing for a global and/or cross-cultural audience?

Theories of and Trends in globalization

• How is globalization practiced today?
• Who is affected by globalization? How?
• What factors or events inhibited (slowed down, reversed) globalization? What factors stopped the evolution of globalization?
• Definitions of globalization

Globalization and Ethics:

• what laws and treaties have been passed by (developed) countries relating to ethics and globalization?
• What rules protect (or should protect) different societies (all with different cultures, many with different ethical standards)? [and are there aspects of other cultures/societies we might not want to protect: e.g. traditional restrictions on women]
• effects on scholarly work/communication
• global warming
• globaliation and national soverignty
• economic risks from g.
• UN and globalization (failure of League of Nations)
• how & why it started/ origins