MLO 3: Secondary Culture3.1) 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. |
Courses TakenSPAN 308: History and Culture of Aztlan
Sample Evidence
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Reflective NarrativeAn great part about the WLC department at CSUMB is that I was able to learn a great deal about other cultures in addition to the Japanese culture I was majoring in. Learning a secondary culture is highly encouraged at CSUMB, and this allowed me the opportunity to expand my cultural knowledge by taking SPAN 308 History and Culture of Aztlan. In this class I was able to learn the history of Mexico, and the origin of its people. This class interested me greatly because I am of Hispanic origin myself, but I knew very little about my ancestry and cultural history. '
Being an online course, an important facet of the class was reading the assigned book titled "Mexicanos". Every month there would be a variety of written assignments that would test our knowledge and understanding of the assigned reading. In addition to the written assignments, we were required to do mini research assignments and submit power points of topics of our choosing about Mexico. This gave us flexibility and a welcome change of pace to our normal assigned reading. Together, these assignments allowed me to learn a wide variety of Mexican culture, as well as the history behind it. This class not only helped me gain a better understanding of Mexican American history, but also compare it to my own culture and history, as well as Japanese culture. |