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.
Many of the courses I have taken at CSUMB have focused on different aspects of Japanese culture. Through both my Anime & Manga in Modern Japan as well as Introduction to Japanese Culture and Civilization, I have learned parts of Japanese history that have influenced many of the cultural attitudes, philosophy, and beleifs it holds. Through my pop culture course as well as my Social Issues in Japan course I have studied the cultural practices, for example looking at a history of LGBTQ+ peoples in Japan. Through many of the courses I have looked the cultural products that have been produced. Anime & Manga in Modern Japan focused largely the cultural production Japan is most well known for, however in Pop Culture we were able to examine other forms of art, as well as the artists producing them, such as Yayoi Kusama's art and patterns. Introduction to Culture and Civilization looked at older Japanese culture starting with the Jōmon period and the rope art pottery that was created then, as well as later works from different eras such as The Tale of Genji and Heike Monogatari. In Anime & Manga we saw how the United States and SCAP influenced post-war Japan and the shift from being breifly pro-union to anti-union. But we also were able to examin what aspects of the culture they created during the economic post war miracle influenced the US, and what forms of culture they then started exporting to America, and how their culture came to influence ours. I have been lucky to study so much culture as such an in-depth level on a variety of topics.
For evidence, please see Fall 2018's Anime & Manga in Modern Japan, Fall 2019's Japanese Pop Culture, Social Issues in Japan, and Spring 2022's Japan: Current Issues and Solutions.
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.
Many of the courses I have taken at CSUMB have focused on different aspects of Japanese culture. Through both my Anime & Manga in Modern Japan as well as Introduction to Japanese Culture and Civilization, I have learned parts of Japanese history that have influenced many of the cultural attitudes, philosophy, and beleifs it holds. Through my pop culture course as well as my Social Issues in Japan course I have studied the cultural practices, for example looking at a history of LGBTQ+ peoples in Japan. Through many of the courses I have looked the cultural products that have been produced. Anime & Manga in Modern Japan focused largely the cultural production Japan is most well known for, however in Pop Culture we were able to examine other forms of art, as well as the artists producing them, such as Yayoi Kusama's art and patterns. Introduction to Culture and Civilization looked at older Japanese culture starting with the Jōmon period and the rope art pottery that was created then, as well as later works from different eras such as The Tale of Genji and Heike Monogatari. In Anime & Manga we saw how the United States and SCAP influenced post-war Japan and the shift from being breifly pro-union to anti-union. But we also were able to examin what aspects of the culture they created during the economic post war miracle influenced the US, and what forms of culture they then started exporting to America, and how their culture came to influence ours. I have been lucky to study so much culture as such an in-depth level on a variety of topics.
For evidence, please see Fall 2018's Anime & Manga in Modern Japan, Fall 2019's Japanese Pop Culture, Social Issues in Japan, and Spring 2022's Japan: Current Issues and Solutions.