Credits: 1
Students will examine non-Western cultures, with a major emphasis on East Asia , the Middle East , and Eastern Europe . The student will critically review and analyze themes and issues, using primary sources as well as professional articles, covering the political, social, economic, geographical, and intellectual ideas of the time periods. Students will relate historical events and concepts to today and create cultural VR 3D worlds based on themes learned in class.
Questions we examine in this class include:
How do cultural practices contribute to our sense of identity and belonging?
How do cultural practices promote inequality, allowing some groups to dominate others?
How is culture taught and reproduced? -How have people used popular culture to resist domination?
When does cultural change challenge established authority?
How do cultural innovations (and innovators) gain recognition?
Objectives
Understands the connections between socially-approved behavioral patterns and cultural perspectives.
Draws conclusions about the relationship and mutual influence between perspectives and expressive products (e.g., literature, periodicals, music, theater, visual arts) in the target and native cultures.
Understands contrasting ways in which familial, economic, environmental, and political issues are reflected through oral, written, and artistic expression in the native and target cultures.
Understands how other cultures view the role of the native culture in the world arena.
