Global Supply Chains is a level 6 module offered to third-year students of the BSc Business Management, BSc Accounting and Management, BSc Marketing and Management, and BSc Business with Law courses. The module investigates companies’ outsourcing strategies, i.e. the growing practice of parcelling out, delegating, or purchasing at least part of their activities from foreign suppliers, whether dependent or independent actors. Among the sectors we focus on are food and agriculture, clothing, and electronics. The module critically examines what value-creating activities firms tend to outsource, how, why, and to whom, and the implications. Outsourcing strategies are understood in a wider international context as characterised by multiple players, in particular global institutions, global private players, states, consumers, trade unions and social movements. For the analysis of global supply chains, the module explores and applies mainstream and heterodox theoretical frameworks from different disciplines, such as global supply chain management (business studies), global value chains, and global production networks (economic sociology, development studies, economic geography).