Title VI Year I

Min Lu, Instructor of Chinese LanguageGail Mooney, Professor of HumanitiesKaren Oster, Chair of Performing Arts Michael Rodman, Chair of Psychology

Middlesex Community College,Bedford and Lowell, MA

Global Studies Concentration - DraftA.A. in Liberal Arts and Sciences (61-62 Credits)

Program Requirements Credits MCC Core MassTransfer

Social Science and Global Studies Foundation (15 required credits) 18HST 130 - History of World Civilization Before 1500 Social Science Social ScienceHST 131 - History of World Civilization After 1500 Social ScienceECO 140 - Principles of Macroeconomics Social ScienceGOV 110 - Introduction to GovernmentSOC 101 - Introduction to Sociology / ANT 101 - Cultural Anthropology Behavioral Science

Social Science and Global Studies Electives (Choose 9 credits) 9Asian International FellowshipsHST 139 - VietnamSOC Chinese Studies (Title VI course - year 3 group)Chinese Studies HST (Title VI course - year 2 group)

Humanities Electives (Choose 9 credits) 9 Humanities (3 cr) Humanities (9 cr)Intro to Asian Studies (or a similar title)LANG - Chinese/Japanese/KhemiLANG - Chinese/Japanese/KhemiREL 102 - Religions of AsiaChinese Studies HUM (Title VI course - year 1 group)

Additional MCC Core (13 required credits)ENG 101 - English Compostion I 3 ENG ENGENG 102 - English Compostion II 3 ENG ENGMAT 120 - Math Modeling for the Liberal Arts / MAT 100 - Intermediate Algebra 3 MAT MATENV 131 - Environmental Science with Lab 4 SCI Lab SCI

Additiional Math/Science for MassTransfer (6-7 credits) SCI - 4 cr + MAT / SCI - 6 crMAT 175 - Methods of Applied Statistics / MAT 177 - Statistics 3Lab Science Elective (may substitute 6 credits of non-lab sciences) 4

Free Electives (6 credits) 6

Total Program Credits 62

Program Overview

Humanities Core CourseYear I

Gail Mooney and Karen Oster

Introduction://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeqB8JwpdE4

Through Another Window: Introduction to Chinese

CultureA Freshman Experience

This course will introduce the student to aspects of the Chinese world view through literature, film, philosophy and meditative/physical practice, culminatingin student research presentations within these areas.

Learning Community

Critical thinking and an interactive as well as independent approach to learning

– 6 credits - twice a week - 3 hour blocks

Guest speakers – Topics will include: politics, philosophy,

art, economics, history

Master Classes – Movement, cooking, calligraphy, Chinese

language

Class FormatRitual

– Meditation and movement based practice

Philosophy – Discussion on quote of the day from The

Analects, Dao de Jing, Buddha sutras

Assigned reading/ journal responses

-- Student led questions and discussion

Presentation– Film, lecture, guest speaker, activity

Ritual – Closing reflection

Class Topics: Part I

Intimate Practice–Relationships

Family and roles–Filial piety, cooking, rituals and

ceremonies, ancestor worship

Self-cultivation (Heart-mind)–Daoism, Confucianism, Buddhism

Class Topics: Part II

Social practiceLanguageEducationHierarchy and legal systemCommunity and social responsibility

Class Topics: Part III

Persistence and Change: The 21st Century

Gender issues Technology Urbanization and the environment

Student Projects

Research Projects:

Ongoing research will result in a presentation where the student engages the class in a specific activity centered around a topic relating to Chinese culture

Tentative Bibliography: Texts

Owen, Stephen An Anthology of Chinese Literature: Beginnings to 1911

Whaley, Arthur and le Roy Baldidge, Translations from the Chinese

Rexroth, Kenneth, One Hundred Poems from the Chinese

Young, David, Five Tang Poets

Ames, Roger and David Hall trans. Dao de Jing

Monkey

Tentative Bibliography: Poems

Ezra Pound

Gary Snyder

Robert Creeley

W.S. Merwin

Theodore Roethke

Tentative Bibliography: Books

Buck, Pearl S, The Good EarthChang, Jung, Wild SwansFeiyu, Three Sisters Ha Jin, Beidao Hua You, Chronicle of a Blood MerchantJie Zhang, Love Must Not Be ForgottenLaird, Betty Bao, Spring MoonLi Luyan (the diaspora) Lin Yutang, The Vermillion GateMa Jian, Red DustMann, Susan, The Talented Women of the Zhang Family and Li Ju-chen, Flowers in the Mirror: Tan Amy, The Joy Luck ClubRed Pine, The Heart Sutra

Possible Films

I Am Tom ShadyacEat Drink Man Woman Ang LeeShower Zhang YangTo Live Xiang YiomuChungking Express Kar Wai WongPushing Hands Ang LeeStill Life Zhang Ke JiaHero Xiang YimouThe Blue Kite Tian ZhueingzhuangRaise the Red Lantern Xiang YimouYellow Earth Chen Kiage

Michael Rodman

Confucian Values

Relationship Expectations

Adolescent life– Filial Piety– Ren– Interdependence

identity in the context of relationships

– Harmony

Parent—adolescent relationships

Parenting styles and self esteemBehavioral and emotional

autonomyIdentity development/Identity

Statuses

Puberty and Body Images

Preparation for pubertyTiming of pubertyBody image acceptance &

dissatisfaction

Education

Middle School and High SchoolRelationships with teachersEducational Expectations

Social/Peer relations

FriendshipsPopularityDating

Delinquency

Understanding of the causes of delinquency

Responses -- juvenile laws and treatments

Adolescent PsychologyPartial Topic Bibliography

BOOKS• edited by Cheng, Hong, Chan Kara. Advertising and Chinese society :

impacts and issues / 1st ed. [Frederiksberg, Denmark] : Copenhagen Business School Press ; Portland, OR : Distribution, International Specialized Book Services, 2009

• Choi, Alfred, and Wing, Lo. Fighting youth crime : a comparative study of two little dragons in Asia. 2nd ed., Singapore : Eastern Universities Press, 2004

• Fong, Vanessa L., Only hope : coming of age under China's one-child policy. Stanford, Calif. Stanford University Press, 2004.

• Nie, Hongping Annie., The dilemma of the moral curriculum in a Chinese secondary school. Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, c2008.

• edited by Tse John W.L., Bagley, Christopher, Aldershot, Hants. Suicidal behaviour, bereavement, and death education in Chinese adolescents : Hong Kong studies / England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2002.

ARTICLES• Chan,S. M., Bowes J., and Wyver J. “Chinese parenting in Hong Kong: links among

goals, beliefs and styles, Early Child Development and Care”, Vol. 179, No. 7, October 2009, 849–862.

• Chen, Hong and Jackson, Todd. “Prevalence and socio-demographic correlates of eating disorder endorsements among adolescents and young adults from China, European Eating Disorders Review”; Sep/Oct2008, Vol. 16 Issue 5, p375-385, 11p, 4 Chart.s

• Cheung, Chau-Kiu, Ngai, Ngan-Pun, Ngai, Steven. “Family Strain and Adolescent Delinquency in Two Chinese Cities, Guangzhou and Hong Kong, Journal of Child & Family Studie”s; Oct2007, Vol. 16 Issue 5, p626-641, 16p, 6 C.

• Jessor, Richard, Turbin, Mark S., Costa, Frances M., Dong, Qi, Zhang, Hongchuan, Wang, Changhai. “Adolescent Problem Behavior in China and the United States: A Cross-National Study of Psychosocial Protective Factors, Journal of Research on Adolescence.” (Blackwell Publishing Limited); Sep2003, Vol. 13 Issue 3, p329-360, 32p, 1 Diagram, 3 Charts, 1 Graph.

• T. H. Lam1, Stephanie W. Lee1, Samantha Fung1*, S. Y. Ho1, Peter W. H. Lee1 & Sunita M. Stewar2t, “Sociocultural Influences on Body Dissatisfaction and Dieting in Hong Kong Girls.” Published online 15 September 2008 in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com) DOI: 10.1002/erv.90.0

• Lin, Jing and Zhang, Y. “Educational Expansion and Shortages in Secondary Schools in China: the bottle neck syndrome.” Journal of Contemporary China; May2006, Vol. 15 Issue 47, p255-274, 20p, 8 Charts.

• “Outline on Secondary School Moral Education, Chinese Education & Society.” Mar/Apr2006, Vol. 39 Issue 2, p21-36, 16.

• Sheck, Daniel. “Perceived Parental Control Based on Indigenous Chinese Parental Contro.”

• “Concepts in Adolescents in Hong Kong.” The American Journal of Family Therapy, 35:123–137, 2007.

• Wenxin Zhang, Andrew J. Fuligni. “Authority, Autonomy, and Family Relationships Among Adolescents in Urban and Rural China.” JOURNAL OF RESEARCH ON ADOLESCENCE, 16(4), 527–537, 2006, Society for Research on Adolescence.

• Yan, Li, Costanzo, Philip R., Putallaz, Martha. “Maternal Socialization Goals, Parenting Styles, and Social-Emotional Adjustment Among Chinese and European American Young Adults: Testing a Mediation Model.” The Journal of Genetic Psychology, 2010, 171(4), 330–362.

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