3.1 Students describe concepts of culture and use that understanding in their comparison of the target culture with the 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.
As a student coming from an academic background focused primarily on Japanese language and culture, it was a rather fruitful experience taking a course with contents focused on the history and politics of a culture differing from both Japanese and my own family's culture. The secondary culture course that I took here at CSUMB was one focused on the political history of Latin American. If you would like to more specifically what kind of things I learned from that course, please click the (SPAN 309) link below.
Learning about a culture different from one's own native one in my opinion has nothing but positive outcomes for the learner such as broadening one's view of what it really means to be a human being. There are many instances in which one will find themselves confused as to why people act the way they do, or why people assume particular things about others who come from different cultures; it is only when one really begins to learn more about the other culture that one begins to understand the relative nature of the human experience.
Along the way of having invested so much time learning about Japan and the Japanese language, I have coincidentally made many good friends who are from South Korea. Through associating with them, I have learned things here and there about Korean culture, the Korean language, and have made some wonderful friendships as well. Sometime in their near future, in addition to Japanese I would like to make a serious effort to also learn the Korean language and become more familiar with the history and culture of the region. Considering how deep I have already gone down the rabbit hole of my Japanese language studies, I can hardly imagine the depth of what I will experience by starting to dig yet another one. Needless to say, I am very much looking forward it.
Courses
SPAN 309
3.2 Students will analyze and make connections between the perspectives, ways of thinking, behavioral practices, and cultural products of a second culture.
As a student coming from an academic background focused primarily on Japanese language and culture, it was a rather fruitful experience taking a course with contents focused on the history and politics of a culture differing from both Japanese and my own family's culture. The secondary culture course that I took here at CSUMB was one focused on the political history of Latin American. If you would like to more specifically what kind of things I learned from that course, please click the (SPAN 309) link below.
Learning about a culture different from one's own native one in my opinion has nothing but positive outcomes for the learner such as broadening one's view of what it really means to be a human being. There are many instances in which one will find themselves confused as to why people act the way they do, or why people assume particular things about others who come from different cultures; it is only when one really begins to learn more about the other culture that one begins to understand the relative nature of the human experience.
Along the way of having invested so much time learning about Japan and the Japanese language, I have coincidentally made many good friends who are from South Korea. Through associating with them, I have learned things here and there about Korean culture, the Korean language, and have made some wonderful friendships as well. Sometime in their near future, in addition to Japanese I would like to make a serious effort to also learn the Korean language and become more familiar with the history and culture of the region. Considering how deep I have already gone down the rabbit hole of my Japanese language studies, I can hardly imagine the depth of what I will experience by starting to dig yet another one. Needless to say, I am very much looking forward it.
Courses
SPAN 309