SDSU
In
the 2007 Summer Service and Learning Program
in Rural China
Instructor/Lecturer: Miguel Llora, MA
Course Objective: To record and reflect on your experience at the 2007 Summer Service and Learning Program in Rural China. The "Service Learning Program in China" brings together American and Tsinghua University students who live and work side-by-side while providing critical educational resources to the poorest regions of China. Service Learning Scholarships provided by Wang Foundation and Tsinghua University enable hundreds of American and Tsinghua University students to learn about each other's cultures, practice global citizenship and mitigate chronic poverty at the grass roots level. First launched in 2006, the program has already become a successful model for expansion and duplication throughout China.
Textbooks required for the class:
Johnson, Chalmers. Blowback: The Cost and Consequences of American Empire. New York: Henry Holt, 2001.
All other required
readings will be available online at our website.
CHINA
Course
Pack 1-19
Course
Pack 20-48
Course
Pack 49-76
Confucianism
An
Introduction to Confucianism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confucianism
Nelson
- The Analects (50-56)
Taoism
An
Introduction to Taoism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taoism
Nelson
- Tao Te Ching (58-66)
Buddhism
and Buddhism in China
An
Introduction to Buddhism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism
Nelson
- Sermon at the Deer Park (30-37)>
Here
is what you will be doing over the 4-week period.
JOURNAL:
[# of pages - unlimited]
You keep this,
as it is a place to keep all your "impressions" in.
Extractions
from the JOURNAL:
Deliverable 1 of 3 - SURVEY: [4 to 6 pages]
There is a comprehensive survey about the program: Pre-Departure, First Week in Beijing, Work in the Rural Areas, Final Week in Beijing, and General Comments and Suggestions. I asked that they - from the start write down your impressions of the whole trip in your journals. I also really want you to focus on your impressions vis-a-vis the cultural interaction - which is the subject of your final paper.
Deliverable 2 of 3 - FINAL PAPER: [8 to 10 pages]
Extracting from your journals so you can produce about 8 to 10 page paper [complete with citations] relating to cultural interaction. See References.
Deliverable 3 of 3 - CURRICULUM: [1 to 2 pages]
We have been working on creating lesson plans for the four possible scenarios you might be asked to work in. We produced templates [of which you had to collect all kinds of support materials for] so you are familiar with the process. I would like you to submit the ACTUAL syllabus you used [as against the templates] to get a REAL sense of what you did. This is about another page or two. It is quality though as I will be better able to assess the work you put in in those two weeks of teaching. The first week in Beijing is for settling in and getting acclimated culturally and the last week is for debriefing back into an urban setting.
References
Haw,
Stephen G. A Traveller's History of China. New York: Interlink Books, 2003
Levenson,
Joseph and Schurman, Franz. China: An Interpretive History: From the Beginnings
to the Fall of Han. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1969.
Nelson,
Lynn H. and Peebles, Patrick. eds. Classics of Eastern Thought. Harcourt
Brace College Publishers: Fort Worth, 1991.
Smith, Arthur H. Village Life
in China: A Study in Sociology. New York: Greenwood Press, 1969.
Weithoff,
Bodo. Introduction to Chinese History: From Ancient Times to 1912. London,
Thames and Hudson, 1975.
Wint, Guy. Common Sense about China. New York:
The Macmillan Company, 1961.
Wright, David C. The History of China.
Westport: Greenwood Press, 2001.
Films
Lecturer's
Selection:
A World Without Thieves
[Drama]
China from the Inside [Documentary]
Highly
Recommended:
Comedy
Xizao
(Shower)
Documentary
1421:
The Year China Discovered America
Biography of Mao Tse Tung
Bodacious Beijing
Golden
Lotus
In Search of History: China's Forbidden City
Modern Marvels: The Great
Wall of China
The First Emperor of China
The Saltmen of Tibet
Drama
A
Soul Haunted by Painting
Beijing Bicycle
Bian zou bian chang (Life on a
String)
Chat gim (Seven Swords)
Chinese Box
Country Teachers
Dongjing
Shenpan (The Tokyo Trial)
Farewell My Concubine
Fearless
He ni zai yi
qi (Together)
Huozhe (To Live)
Lan feng zheng (Blue Kite)
Not One Less
Once
Upon A Time in China
Pavilion of Women
Platform
Qian li zou dan qi (Riding
Alone for Thousands of Miles)
Ren xiao yao (Unknown Pleasures)
Shu gim yan
sau luk (Book and Sword)
Song jia huang chao (The Soong Sisters)
The Emperor's
Shadow
The Promise
The Swordsman in Double Flag Town
Wo de fu qin mu
qin (The Road Home)
Wu du (Five Deadly Venoms)
Xixia lu tiaotiao (Journey
to the Western Xia Empire)
Zhang Ziyi Movie [Can't Make Out The Title] (2 disks)
Zi
hudie (Purple Butterfly)
Horror
Chin
gei bin (Vampire Effect)
Chinese Ghost Story