MLO 2: Culture
2.1. Students develop a comprehensive understanding, appreciation and knowledge of Japanese culture: perspectives (ideas, beliefs, attitudes, values, philosophies), practices (patterns of social interactions) and products (both tangible and intangible, for example, art, history, literature, music).
2.2. Students develop analytical and critical thinking in areas, such as how Japan’s cultural background influences modern Japanese life, how to compare their own culture with the Japanese culture, or how Japanese culture relates to other world cultures in an age of global inter-relatedness.
This MLO was met by Japanese 300 at CSUMB, and Japanese 3 at Okayama University, which were taught in Japanese. The rest of my culture related courses were taught in English while I was abroad at Okayama University and included Study of Japan; Japanese Through Film; Modern Japanese Culture; Japanese and Nature; Energy and Environmen in Japan and Asia; Introduction to Sociolinguistics; People crossing borders in Japan; Tourism in Japan; and Japanese Cuisine and Culture.
I think that this MLO contained the fun classes that really help to tie in all of the language I have learned. By taking a myriad of smaller culture courses while abroad I was able to sample a wide variety of topics, and learn as much about Japan as possible.
I found that the most difficult part of this MLO to be choosing which classes I was not going to take during my time studying. Courses I thought would be boring at first turned out to be extremely beneficial to my learning, in particular People Crossing Boarders in Japan helped me understand what happened to Japanese emigrants after the Meiji Restoration. Here is a sample of my work from that class.
2.1. Students develop a comprehensive understanding, appreciation and knowledge of Japanese culture: perspectives (ideas, beliefs, attitudes, values, philosophies), practices (patterns of social interactions) and products (both tangible and intangible, for example, art, history, literature, music).
2.2. Students develop analytical and critical thinking in areas, such as how Japan’s cultural background influences modern Japanese life, how to compare their own culture with the Japanese culture, or how Japanese culture relates to other world cultures in an age of global inter-relatedness.
This MLO was met by Japanese 300 at CSUMB, and Japanese 3 at Okayama University, which were taught in Japanese. The rest of my culture related courses were taught in English while I was abroad at Okayama University and included Study of Japan; Japanese Through Film; Modern Japanese Culture; Japanese and Nature; Energy and Environmen in Japan and Asia; Introduction to Sociolinguistics; People crossing borders in Japan; Tourism in Japan; and Japanese Cuisine and Culture.
I think that this MLO contained the fun classes that really help to tie in all of the language I have learned. By taking a myriad of smaller culture courses while abroad I was able to sample a wide variety of topics, and learn as much about Japan as possible.
I found that the most difficult part of this MLO to be choosing which classes I was not going to take during my time studying. Courses I thought would be boring at first turned out to be extremely beneficial to my learning, in particular People Crossing Boarders in Japan helped me understand what happened to Japanese emigrants after the Meiji Restoration. Here is a sample of my work from that class.