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Apr 06, 2026
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MLL 362 - Chinese Folktales and Culture
Units: 4 ; Breadth Area: GE-UD-3; Diversity
A survey of Chinese festival folktales with a focus on associated customs and practices and how they shaped Chinese culture and society in Greater China and the Chinese American community. Taught in English with an optional Chinese module.
Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: GE-UD-3 - Upper-Division Arts or Humanities (Humanities); Diversity
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 (lower division Area C requirements for students on the 2024-25 or earlier catalogs).
Repeatability: May be repeated for credit for a maximum of 8 units.
Possible Instructional Methods: On-ground, or Hybrid, or Online-Asynchronous.
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:
- Acquire and demonstrate knowledge of Chinese festivals and the associated folktales, customs, and practices in Greater China and Chinese American community.
- Analyze representations and adaptations of Chinese festivals and the folktales in literary works, films, and arts.
- Evaluate how the customs, practices, and folktales of the major Chinese festivals shaped and were shaped by historical, social political and economic changes.
- Discuss the role and image of gender and sexuality in the transmission and transformation of Chinese festival folktales.
- Compare and contrast the festival customs and folktales in Chinese culture and other cultures.
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.
Diversity Overlay Learning Outcomes
- Describe the histories, experiences or views of one or more cultural groups.
- Analyze the overlap or intersection of social identities of oneself and/or other cultural groups (e.g., culture, gender, class, sexuality, religion, disability, immigration status, and/or age).
- Examine the impact of their own identity on their experiences with and/or views of other cultural groups.
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