MLL 369 - Dragon Ladies: Gendered Cultural Sustainability in Question

Units: 3 ; Breadth Area: GE-UD-3 ; Sustainability
Study of femininity among East Asian dragon symbolized cultures. Explore maternal cultural sustainability through the examination of the concepts of “Dragon Lady,” a stereotypical portrayal of East Asian women (as domineering, strong, vicious, deceitful, exotic, often sexually alluring, and reductive).

Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: GE-UD-3 - Upper Division Arts or Humanities, Overlay - Sustainability
Prerequisites: Completion of GE Areas 1A, 1B, 1C and GE-2 with grade C- (CR) or better (GE Areas A1, A2, A3 and B4 for students on the 2024-25 or earlier catalogs).

Strongly Recommended Preparation: Upper division status (greater than 60 earned semester units) and completion of lower division Area 3 requirements. Prerequisites: Completion of GE Areas 1A, 1B, 1C and GE-2 with grade C- (CR) or better (GE Areas A1, A2, A3 and B4 for students on the 2024-25 or earlier catalogs).
Repeatability: Repeatable for credit up tp 6 units.
Possible Instructional Methods: Hybrid, or Online-Asynchronous, or Online-Synchronous.
Grading: A-F or CR/NC (student choice).
Course Typically Offered: Variable Intermittently

Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:

Determine on how cultural sustainability can be integrated into decision-making processes and actions.
Critically analyze the cultural symbol dragon across Chinese, Korean, and Japanese cultures through primary and secondary sources, art, architecture, and archaeology.
Compare and analyze various dragon cultures through the lens of sustainability
Compare and contrast of the concept “dragon lady” in the ancient world with what is happening today
Write and speak persuasively about historical and literary topics of Sustainability in relation to femininity, matrilineality, colonialism, and resistance.
Identify the issues of women’s experiences in war as experiencing a range of harms including – Gender-based violence, Displacement, Lack of access to health/maternal care, Child marriage, Food insecurity, prostitution, and Human trafficking
Analyze the idea of preserving cultural heritage, traditions, and values, and ensuring their long-term viability.
Identify natural capital and other types of capital that are destroyed or impaired by warfare. War co-opts natural resources (e.g. natural capital), destroys societal infrastructure, and interferes with a variety of natural cycles and ecosystem services

GE-UD-3. Upper-division Arts or Humanities Learning Outcomes

Demonstrate an understanding of and ability to apply principles, methodologies, values systems, and thought processes employed in the arts and humanities.
Analyze cultural production as an expression of, or reflection upon, what it means to be human.
Demonstrate how the perspectives of the arts or humanities are used by informed, engaged, and reflective citizens to benefit local and global communities.

Sustainability Overlay Learning Outcomes

Discuss multiple dimensions of sustainability, including the scientific, social, cultural, and/or economic.
Analyze interactions between human activities and natural systems.
Describe strategies taken by individuals, communities, organizations, or governments for mitigating and/or adapting to key threats to environmental sustainability.