MLL 215 - Asian Martial Arts & Harmonious Life

1. Analyze martial arts texts, films, and practices from East Asian as humanistic works, interpreting their aesthetic traditions, cultural values, and impact on personal perspectives.
2. Explain how East Asian cultural, philosophical, and historical contexts including Confucian ethics, Daoist thought, Buddhist practice, samurai codes, and nationalist reinventions shaped martial arts traditions and their global adaptations.
3. Evaluate how diverse identities in East Asia, such as gender roles, class hierarchies, regional traditions, ethnic minorities, and diasporic communities, influence martial arts practice, representation, and reception.
4. Apply humanistic perspectives to examine how martial arts in East Asian cultures reflect and critique systems of power, including feudal hierarchies, nationalism, colonialism, modernization, and commercialization.
5. Describe the challenges martial arts communities face in addressing inequities of access, representation, and appropriation across different cultural and historical contexts.
6. Propose and reflect on ways East Asian martial arts can be used to preserve cultural traditions, foster cross-cultural understanding, and contribute to more inclusive and equitable societies.

1. Evaluate the impact of the humanities on your life.
2. Examine the cultural and/or historical context(s) of the humanities.
3. Describe the ways that diverse identities influence experiences in the humanities.
    

1. Use a disciplinary perspective to analyze issues of social justice and equity;
2. Describe the challenges to achieving social justice; and
3. Identify ways in which individuals and/or groups can contribute to social justice within local communities, nations, or the world.