Wal-Mart Watch Releases Academic Curriculum

Wal-Mart Watch is proud to announce publication of Wal-Mart: A College Curriculum. Many college professors already use Wal-Mart as a case study in the classroom, in courses as wide-ranging as ethics, urban planning, women’s studies, labor relations, sociology and management. This 37-page curriculum is designed as a pick-and-choose menu for professors of varied disciplines or as a ready-to-use course. The curriculum suggests more than 70 carefully chosen readings, covering a broad spectrum of opinion. As part of each teaching module, author Elizabeth Cohn, a college professor for the last ten years, offers a creative list of suggested student assignments.

Nelson Lichtenstein, editor of a new anthology on Wal-Mart, calls the new Wal-Mart Watch curriculum, “a comprehensive and well-balanced exploration of a world-shaping institution.”

Historian Susan Strasser, at the University of Delaware, praises the curriculum as “the product of someone who’s thought about teaching as well as about Wal-Mart.”

Richard Appelbaum, at the Institute for Social, Behavioral and Economic Research UCSB, describes the curriculum as “useful in any course that is concerned with the impact of globalization, from the U.S. to China.”

Download our academic curriculum here for use in your college classroom and send your comments to .