MLO 3: Secondary Culture
3.1. Students describe concepts of culture and use that understanding in their comparison of the target culture with second culture.
3.2. Students will analyze and make connections between the perspectives, ways of thinking, behavioral practices, and cultural products of a second culture.
To fulfill this MLO, I took SPAN 308: History and Culture of Aztlan. In class we used the book called Mexicanos by Manuel Gonzales. This served as our textbook of sorts in which we learned about the history of modern day Mexican-Americans. The class was split up into seminars in which we would do things like make timelines out of the dates in the book to chronicle the events of the chapter, write reflections of the chapters, participate in the online forum and do mini research projects on prominent or important figures from the chapters.
Throughout the class, It was difficult to find distinct similarities among Japan and Mexico. There were only couple of similarities that I had noticed throughout the class. Much like Japan, Mexico had a number of clans, or tribes in this case that made up the country, and until foreigners had shown up, the country had a strong imperial presence just like with the Shogunate and the Emperor. Also, I thought that some of the ghost stories of Mexico were very Japan-like in nature. (3.1)
Through reading the book, doing the assignments, and doing research projects, I've learned so much about the rich history of Mexican Americans in the United States. We spend most of primary education learning about history, but the strong majority of what we've learned was about Anglo American history. There were times where we learned about Native, Japanese, or Mexican Americans, but usually it was no more than a few paragraphs to a couple of pages. In the World Languages and Cultures building, there is TV that has a bunch of stuff going on on it. There is a quote that often shows up saying that to learn a different language is to gain a second soul. I feel that this relates to learning about a new culture. Learning about a new culture really puts into perspective how unique each culture is. (3.2)
3.2. Students will analyze and make connections between the perspectives, ways of thinking, behavioral practices, and cultural products of a second culture.
To fulfill this MLO, I took SPAN 308: History and Culture of Aztlan. In class we used the book called Mexicanos by Manuel Gonzales. This served as our textbook of sorts in which we learned about the history of modern day Mexican-Americans. The class was split up into seminars in which we would do things like make timelines out of the dates in the book to chronicle the events of the chapter, write reflections of the chapters, participate in the online forum and do mini research projects on prominent or important figures from the chapters.
Throughout the class, It was difficult to find distinct similarities among Japan and Mexico. There were only couple of similarities that I had noticed throughout the class. Much like Japan, Mexico had a number of clans, or tribes in this case that made up the country, and until foreigners had shown up, the country had a strong imperial presence just like with the Shogunate and the Emperor. Also, I thought that some of the ghost stories of Mexico were very Japan-like in nature. (3.1)
Through reading the book, doing the assignments, and doing research projects, I've learned so much about the rich history of Mexican Americans in the United States. We spend most of primary education learning about history, but the strong majority of what we've learned was about Anglo American history. There were times where we learned about Native, Japanese, or Mexican Americans, but usually it was no more than a few paragraphs to a couple of pages. In the World Languages and Cultures building, there is TV that has a bunch of stuff going on on it. There is a quote that often shows up saying that to learn a different language is to gain a second soul. I feel that this relates to learning about a new culture. Learning about a new culture really puts into perspective how unique each culture is. (3.2)
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