East Asian Politics |
Spring 2016
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Course Information
東アジア国際政治
MLO 2: Culture MLO 5: Cultural Internalization & Language Immersion Course Description
This course covers diverse variety of topics covering the relationships between East Asian countries. This course is taught in English.
Course Work
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Reflective Narrative
In this course, each week we turned in a response that we'd written on an article concerning political relations in East Asia. In addition, one student would give a presentation summarizing the article as well. After the presentation, there would be a short period for questions which would then turn into the professor's continuation and further in-depth explanation of the article. This would often include more explanation of historical background and other overarching ideas or theories.
This class was also mostly Japanese students learning English, but it was much smaller than Japanese Affairs. The classroom also still had a chalkboard, which the professor used interchangeably with the whiteboard. This was an interesting experience for me because chalkboards are practically non-existent in the US. I'm also not really interested in politics, so most of the information covered in this class was new for me (I hadn't already looked it up on my own or heard about it elsewhere). When it would come my turn to express my opinion or give the "American perspective" I felt fortunate that there was another American student in the class who was far more knowledgeable on the subject than myself. For my opinion, I usually just said whatever was on my mind at the moment because I'd never given these topics much thought in my regular life. It was also interesting to participate in a class in the opposite position from what I've experienced at CSUMB. In my Japanese courses taught in Japanese at CSUMB, sometimes Japanese exchange students participate—however, this time I was the English student participating in an English class geared toward ELL students. Now I know what the Japanese student feel like! Because I'd been in a similar situation (practicing for presentations in Japanese class), I could really sympathize with the Japanese students presenting in English. |
Additional Course Work: Weekly Article Responses
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