國立中興大學教學大綱

課程名稱	(中) 跨文化研究理論(8009)
	(Eng.) Introduction to Transcultural Studies
開課單位	跨文化學程
課程類別	必修			學分	3	授課教師	廖卓豪
選課單位	跨文化學程 / 博士班			授課使用語言	英文	開課學期	1151
課程簡述	This course aims to introduce students to the study of transcultural and transnational Asia. Each week, we focus on a theme that expands on the possibilities of transculturality. We will think through spatial, geographic, and ecological examples drawn from work in Asian studies. We read across different disciplines, such as anthropology, history, and sociology to borrow insights for our critical practice. In other words, we will learn to do comparative criticism together, informed by studies and theories of transnationality and transculturality. By tracking transnational/transcultural opportunities and potentials through concepts such as place, transmission, circulations, migration, diaspora, borderlands, and the environment, we reimagine connections that are obscured by national frameworks. One part of class will be used to close-read and discuss primary texts and the other, issues raised by the secondary texts. The primary texts are cultural texts, broadly defined, which include literature, film, photography, and other relevant cultural materials. The secondary texts are a mix of contextual studies and theory. Together they help to illustrate themes that are areas of active research today. Certain weeks are reserved for guest lectures from speakers drawn within and outside NCHU. Readings: We will close read the texts in class together. Attendance and participation: You are expected to attend every class and participate in class discussion. For some weeks, you are expected to lead the class by listing 2-3 questions for discussion. (20%) Presentations: Each student will take turns to present in class on a secondary text, offering a 10-minute summary of that essay’s argument and some questions it raises for our primary readings that week. The presentation must simply be a summary and a set of questions, which helps to kickstart our discussion. (20%) Midterm assignment: Short close reading of a cultural text of your choice. (25%) Final paper: Long paper on a topic relevant to the course. (35%)
先修課程名稱

課程與核心能力關聯配比(%)			課程目標之教學方法與評量方法
課程目標	核心能力	配比(%)	教學方法	評量方法
This course provides opportunities for students to practice thinking transculturally, through cultural and theoretical examples.			討論 習作 講授	書面報告 出席狀況 口頭報告 作業
授課內容(單元名稱與內容、習作/每週授課、考試進度-共16週加自主學習)
週次 授課內容 第1週 9/8 Introduction to class 第2週 9/15 Migrant subjects Tash Aw, “You Need to Look Away: Visions of Contemporary Malaysia.” Tash Aw, Strangers on a Pier International Organization for Migration (IOM), “Migrant.” Glossary on Migration Khachig Tololyan, “The Nation-State and its Others: In Lieu of a Preface.” 第3週 9/22 Mapping Asia Wong Yoon Wah, ”Banir Blues” and ”My Marginal Home” Sunil Amrith, Migration and Diaspora in Modern Asia Benedict Anderson, “Census, Map, Museum.” In Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism 第4週 9/29 Guest lecture 第5週 10/6 Race, nation, and diaspora Shirley Lim, ”Monsoon History” Ng Kim Chew, ”Allah’s Will” Ien Ang, “Can One Say No to Chineseness? Pushing the Limits of the Diasporic Paradigm.” In On Not Speaking Chinese: Living Between Asia and the West 第6週 10/13 Guest lecture on diasporic performance 第7週 10/20 Guest lecture 第8週 10/27 Midterm assignment In this class so far, we have explored different theories of diaspora. Pick one of the theoretical texts as a lens, in order to “read” one of the literary texts that we’ve covered. Your essay should include: i) Discussion of the concept “diaspora” from the point of view of one of the theories. In other words, write your own understanding of the theory. This helps to establish a framework for a reading of the literary text. (500 words) ii) Close reading of the literary text. Discuss at least 2 key passages of the literary texts you’ve chosen. Discuss whether they agree/disagree/expand on/reinforce/supplement etc. the theory you’re writing about. (500 words) 第9週 11/3 Oceans Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement Amitav Ghosh, The Hungry Tide Sunil Amrith, Crossing the Bay of Bengal 第10週 11/10 Guest lecture on Taiwan and islands 第11週 11/17 Globality John Thomson, Straits of Malacca, Indo-China, and China Sim Chi Yin, The Suitcase is a Little Rotten Mary Louis Pratt, Imperial Eyes 第12週 11/24 Sensing extraction: rubber plantations Han Suyin, And the Rain My Drink Sophie Chao, ”Plantation” Lynn Hollen Lees, Planting Empire, Cultivating Subjects 第13週 12/1 Sensing extraction: sand and land Yeo Siew Hua, A Land Imagined Anna Tsing, Friction 第14週 12/8 The planetary and the Anthropocene Ian Teh, Confluence Chakrabarty, The Climate of History in a Planetary Age Tsing et al, Haunted Landscapes of the Anthropocene 第15週 12/15 Student presentations 第16週 12/22 Final papers due 自主學習 內容    02.閱覽產業及學術相關多媒體資料
學習評量方式
Readings: We will close read the texts in class together. Attendance and participation: You are expected to attend every class and participate in class discussion. For some weeks, you are expected to lead the class by listing 2-3 questions for discussion. (20%) Presentations: Each student will take turns to present in class on a secondary text, offering a 10-minute summary of that essay’s argument and some questions it raises for our primary readings that week. The presentation must simply be a summary and a set of questions, which helps to kickstart our discussion. (20%) Midterm assignment: Short close reading of a cultural text of your choice. (25%) Final paper: Long paper on a topic relevant to the course. (35%) Note: Readings subject to change.
教科書＆參考書目(書名、作者、書局、代理商、說明)
PDFs and online essays. Some books available in the library.
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課程輔導時間
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