From ceginfo@u.washington.edu Mon Aug 27 09:40:10 2001 Received: from jason04.u.washington.edu (jason04.u.washington.edu [140.142.8.53]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.11.2+UW01.01/8.11.2+UW01.04) with ESMTP id f7RGe70107870 for ; Mon, 27 Aug 2001 09:40:07 -0700 Received: from homer32.u.washington.edu (ceginfo@homer32.u.washington.edu [140.142.8.42]) by jason04.u.washington.edu (8.11.2+UW01.01/8.11.2+UW01.04) with ESMTP id f7RGe6r26314 for ; Mon, 27 Aug 2001 09:40:06 -0700 Received: from localhost (ceginfo@localhost) by homer32.u.washington.edu (8.11.2+UW01.01/8.11.2+UW01.04) with ESMTP id f7RGe4620474 for ; Mon, 27 Aug 2001 09:40:04 -0700 Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 09:40:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Civil and Environmental Engineering To: Subject: Fw: GTTL Certificate Program and course- please advise (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=X-UNKNOWN Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Dear Graduate Program Coordinators: Please let graduate students in your program know about the Global Trade, Transportation, and Logistics (GTTL) Graduate Certificate, and our upcoming GTTL 501 course. More information about GTTL Studies can be found at our website: http://depts.washington.edu/gttl/index.html Graduate students from a wide array of disciplines may find the GTTL Graduate Certificate a valuable addition to their existing degree program and are welcome to enroll in the GTTL 501 course this Fall quarter. GTTL 501 Global Logistics Management (4) SLN 4270 Instructors: Mark McKay, Tom Schmitt, and Greg Shelton Course Description: This course will explore the structure and dynamics of the world of commerce. The aim is to develop a framework for, and an overview of the theories, commercial practices, public policies, laws and the various economic, political and social factors affecting the actual operations and regulation of global trade, transportation, and logistics. Topics include: =B7 World systems and subsystems of trade and transportation =B7 The role and rationale of the "middleman" and the "information factor" =B7 Management of the supply chain and production processes =B7 Trading philosophies and their evolution =B7 Transportation modes and networks; transportation as a business, as a tradable service, as an infrastructure =B7 Geographical patterns of international commodity and services trade =B7 International trading and financing institutions =B7 Customs unions, free trade areas, and trading blocs =B7 Trends in intermodality, seamless movements, "total logistics", industrial globalization, multimodal mergers, countertrends =B7 Regulatory needs and policy issues Please contact me if you have further questions: Greg Shelton Assistant Director Global Trade, Transportation, and Logistics Studies (GTTL) 2 Smith, Box 353585 University of Washington Seattle, Washington 98195-3585 (206)616-5778 (206)616-5736 (Fax) Web Address: http://depts.washington.edu/gttl/ .