MLO 3: Secondary Culture Other Than Japanese
3.1 Students describe concepts of culture and use that understanding in their comparison of the Japanese culture with a second culture other than Japan.
3.2 Students will analyze and make connections between the perspectives, ways of thinking, behavioral practices, and cultural products of a second culture other than Japanese.
Courses taken to meet his MLO:
- SPAN 365: The Chicano Novel
To fulfill both parts of this MLO, I took The Chicano Novel (SPAN 365). In this course, the novels and other works we read always dealt with different issues, and different nuances of different issues, wrapping up little morsels of culture in a single package. The comprehensiveness of this course was impressive considering its length. We were given novels to read in many different styles and formats. Our first novel focused heavily on immigration and growing up in a Chicano household, as well as interacting with different parts of the Chicano community and the outside world. We discussed many issues about this book in class, and also were given the opportunity to write about it in our final essays (I will link mine below). We discussed feminist issues, machismo, and the interaction between different immigrant groups during the early 20th century (including Japanese immigrants as one of the characters was sent to an internment camp at the end of the novel, incidentally). We also read novels, short stories, and poems about issues such as gender, race politics, LGBTQ+ rights, history, politics, the border, the Chicano movement, and so much more. We were asked to write two critical essays on two works in the class along with our final papers, one on a female author's work, and one on a male author's work. These allowed us to make connections between a great number of things, including our personal lives and experiences. I will link both of these below.
3.2 Students will analyze and make connections between the perspectives, ways of thinking, behavioral practices, and cultural products of a second culture other than Japanese.
Courses taken to meet his MLO:
- SPAN 365: The Chicano Novel
To fulfill both parts of this MLO, I took The Chicano Novel (SPAN 365). In this course, the novels and other works we read always dealt with different issues, and different nuances of different issues, wrapping up little morsels of culture in a single package. The comprehensiveness of this course was impressive considering its length. We were given novels to read in many different styles and formats. Our first novel focused heavily on immigration and growing up in a Chicano household, as well as interacting with different parts of the Chicano community and the outside world. We discussed many issues about this book in class, and also were given the opportunity to write about it in our final essays (I will link mine below). We discussed feminist issues, machismo, and the interaction between different immigrant groups during the early 20th century (including Japanese immigrants as one of the characters was sent to an internment camp at the end of the novel, incidentally). We also read novels, short stories, and poems about issues such as gender, race politics, LGBTQ+ rights, history, politics, the border, the Chicano movement, and so much more. We were asked to write two critical essays on two works in the class along with our final papers, one on a female author's work, and one on a male author's work. These allowed us to make connections between a great number of things, including our personal lives and experiences. I will link both of these below.