M.L.O 2: Culture
Outcome Requirement:
- 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).
- 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.
Courses taken:
- JAPN 402: Japanese literature (spring 2014)
-JAPN 305:Introduction to Japanese Language and Culture(Soring 2012)
-JAPN 306: The Japanese Mind (Spring 2012)
-JAPN 308: Japanese Pop-Culture (Fall 2011)
JAPN 313: Manga, Anime and Modern Japan (Fall 2011)
- Intro to Socio-linguistics (Japan-Spring 2013)
-World Conflict and Piece (Japan- Spring 2013)
MLO Reflection:
2.1: Appreciating Japanese culture really isn't that difficult for me. If you refer to my culture courses bellow, I listed each culture course I took here in Japan. Furthermore, I explained those classes and gave evidence that I completed that class. One thing I learned this year in my Japanese 402 class was writing a haiku. Haiku is way of writing poems specific to Japan. If you look at my Japanese 402 class page I listed the assignment on that page. As I said before, Haiku's are specific to Japan, they write in a 5-7-5 syllable pattern meaning that the first line is only 5 syllable, the second pattern is 7 and the third line is 5. You can see how this style of writing would be difficult, but in Japanese culture, less is more and the beauty of haiku is something that has even carried over and western poets have started writing Haiku's using English. Furthermore, a part of Japanese culture that, if paying attention, is very noticeable is Japanese love for nostalgia. Two things that Japanese culture sees as nostalgic is first love, and childhood. If you refer to Sample_1_Liscombe_First Love Poem and Sample 2_Lipscombe_Childhood Poem below, I wrote two poems that were well received in my class. The first is a Japanese poem about first love which I presented in my class. The second is a poem about child hood and growing up. Writing these two poems taught us the value of nostalgia and how important remember the past in. Considering that most american's tend to look towards the future rather than wanting to remember the past, it's interesting to notice that in Japanese culture it's acceptable to remember the past a grow off the history that took place.
2.2
Thinking about Japanese critically is very fun. If you refer to the Sample 3_A Little Darkness below, I looked into writing book reports about Japanese stories that I read about in class. This book report is the final for my class, where I believe that I develop a critical analysis comparing my life to that of a story character in a books based during the Edo period in Japanese history. In this book report I talked about how the character and showed the same time of characteristics when wanting to help other people at the cost of our own desires. I fell that in this book report I forced myself to think in ways that I never had before, thus found myself connecting with the character more than I do in stories written in English. Furthermore, I noticed many aspects about Japanese culture, written in a book based in Edo period, that also can be seen today. This of course, is the relationship between superior level people and lower level people that we see in Japanese culture today. This case is specific to the two main characters of the book. The older samurai and the younger samurai both share a relationship that shows Japans Senpai/Kohai relationship.
- JAPN 402: Japanese literature (spring 2014)
-JAPN 305:Introduction to Japanese Language and Culture(Soring 2012)
-JAPN 306: The Japanese Mind (Spring 2012)
-JAPN 308: Japanese Pop-Culture (Fall 2011)
JAPN 313: Manga, Anime and Modern Japan (Fall 2011)
- Intro to Socio-linguistics (Japan-Spring 2013)
-World Conflict and Piece (Japan- Spring 2013)
MLO Reflection:
2.1: Appreciating Japanese culture really isn't that difficult for me. If you refer to my culture courses bellow, I listed each culture course I took here in Japan. Furthermore, I explained those classes and gave evidence that I completed that class. One thing I learned this year in my Japanese 402 class was writing a haiku. Haiku is way of writing poems specific to Japan. If you look at my Japanese 402 class page I listed the assignment on that page. As I said before, Haiku's are specific to Japan, they write in a 5-7-5 syllable pattern meaning that the first line is only 5 syllable, the second pattern is 7 and the third line is 5. You can see how this style of writing would be difficult, but in Japanese culture, less is more and the beauty of haiku is something that has even carried over and western poets have started writing Haiku's using English. Furthermore, a part of Japanese culture that, if paying attention, is very noticeable is Japanese love for nostalgia. Two things that Japanese culture sees as nostalgic is first love, and childhood. If you refer to Sample_1_Liscombe_First Love Poem and Sample 2_Lipscombe_Childhood Poem below, I wrote two poems that were well received in my class. The first is a Japanese poem about first love which I presented in my class. The second is a poem about child hood and growing up. Writing these two poems taught us the value of nostalgia and how important remember the past in. Considering that most american's tend to look towards the future rather than wanting to remember the past, it's interesting to notice that in Japanese culture it's acceptable to remember the past a grow off the history that took place.
2.2
Thinking about Japanese critically is very fun. If you refer to the Sample 3_A Little Darkness below, I looked into writing book reports about Japanese stories that I read about in class. This book report is the final for my class, where I believe that I develop a critical analysis comparing my life to that of a story character in a books based during the Edo period in Japanese history. In this book report I talked about how the character and showed the same time of characteristics when wanting to help other people at the cost of our own desires. I fell that in this book report I forced myself to think in ways that I never had before, thus found myself connecting with the character more than I do in stories written in English. Furthermore, I noticed many aspects about Japanese culture, written in a book based in Edo period, that also can be seen today. This of course, is the relationship between superior level people and lower level people that we see in Japanese culture today. This case is specific to the two main characters of the book. The older samurai and the younger samurai both share a relationship that shows Japans Senpai/Kohai relationship.
Sample1_lipscombe_First love Poem.docx | |
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Sample2_lipscombe_Childhood poem.docx | |
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Sample3_lipscombe__A little darkness.docx | |
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