1. HUMN 1301: Humanities Through the Arts
Before beginning—open the following: 1) HUMN ppt, 2) Ice Cream on the Silk Road ppt 3) Postcards from Asia 4) Sinescope website
Aesthetic Encounters on the Silk Roads

2. GPC 3rd largest in the University System of Georgia w/ 23,000 students
Five campuses around metro Atlanta
Dunwoody Campus is the fastest growing with 10,000 students
We have 3 East-West Center fellows at Dunwoody
Cultural Diversity: more international students than any other USG institution, including African, Caribbean, Eastern European, Indian, Vietnamese, Iranian, Pakistani, Korean, Afghani, Iraqi, and
Diversity of Academic Background
New Chinese language and culture club at Dunwoody campus
International students can fulfill their core requirements

3. Re-designing GPC’s Study Abroad to China
Yes, it’s me with the yellow hair. Reflecting on our CIE’s goal of cultural competency for our students and measures of student success. Other than student evaluations, we had a very weak regime for assessment of learning outcomes, but a consensus that inadequate context contributed to under-performance in some areas—culture stress, disconnect with some of the cultural experiences, weak performances in Chinese language courses, lack of interest in returning to China. Introduce “Postcards from Asia” blog (resource for study abroad leaders)

4. China-themed Learning Community, Year of China, and China Study Abroad
HUMN (CRN 24168) and ECON (CRN 20414) are joined in a Learning Community for six credit hours.
The courses are scheduled so that discussions in economics are complemented by a survey of seven major art forms- film, drama, music, literature, painting, sculpture and architecture.
This Learning Community is designed for business majors participating in the GPC china program: however all eligible students may enroll.
The GPC China Program culminates in a five week study abroad Learning Community in Shanghai, China where SURB 1105 and ENGL 2111 will be taught. I
If you have any questions about the China Program, or about this Learning Community, please contact Prof. Fred Bounds ( ), or Prof. Liam Madden( , ,
Course will be team taught with me sitting in and occasionally lecturing in Fred’s class and he in mine. Our intention was to heal the split between Andrew alluded yesterday to the disparate interpretations of China resulting from Econometric approaches and “cultural” approaches by integrating business and humanities instruction. This institute’s emphasis on the role of trade in cultural transmission was quite felcitous.

5. HUMN 1301: Humanities thru the Arts: Aesthetic Encounters on the Silk Roads
Course Overview
Week 1: Overview: Chinese History and the Silk Routes
Week 2: a. Introduction to spoken Chinese: U of H’s “Say it in Chinese” DVD set.
b. Viewing and discussing High Museum video series on the Qin Emperor’s Tomb.
Week 3: Analects of Confucius & “The Ethics of Confucian Artistry”
Week 4: Mapping the Silk Road: Intercultural Cartographies and Historiographies (group work)
Week 5: Presentations (Building a virtual museum—selection & interpretation)
Week 6: Midterm Assessment: Objective Exam & Essay
Provide list of Silk Road Travellers such as Fa Xian, Xuan Zang. Rabban Sauma, Ibn Battuta, Marco Polo. Locate a map of the Silk Routes that date to that person’s era. Map his or her journey, make an inventory of cultures, sites, and cities encountered along the way. Locate a cultural object (object of art) that this person could have seen, traded, or encountered along the way. The items gathered will be used to produce a “virtual museum).

6. HUMN 1301: Overview (cont.)
Week 7: Mahayana Buddhism & Chan Buddhist Thought & Practice a. The Buddhist Art of Dunhuang
b. The Heart-Mind Sutra c. The Kung Fu Connection & Tai Chi Workshop
d. 845 C.E.
Week 8: a. Tang Dynasty/Chang An (Cultural Commerce in the Golden Age of the Silk Road) b. Prince Pirooz, Yang Gui Fei, Persian Star-Crossed Lovers & “The Story of Ying Ying” c. “The True History of Tea”
d C.E.
Week 9: Islam & The Silk Routes
Week 10: The Three Perfections: Song Dynasty Painting as Self expression & Dissent

7. HUMN 1301: Overview (cont.)
Week 11: a. Khublai Khan, The Il-Khanate & Marco Polo b. Music
Week 12: a. Ming China & The Voyages of Zheng He b. Film
Week 13: Discussion & Evaluation of Virtual Museum Exhibits
Week 14: Review for Final Exam & Exit Conferences
Co-curricular activities include:
Guest lecturers from local experts
Decatur Book Festival
Annual Teaching the Middle East Workshop (USG)
Atlanta Asian Film Festival
Visit to Hindu Temple , Lilburn GA
Dragon Boat Race
Dunwoody Campus Chinese Language & Culture Club

8. Texts Analects of Confucius (Norton selections & Ames)
“Ethics of Confucian Artistry”
Tang Poetry (Norton Selections)
Chan Buddhism (Hershock)
“The Heart-Mind Sutra”
The Monkey and the Monk (selections from Anthony Yu)
Life Along the Silk Road (selections from Whitfield)
Religions of the Silk Road (selections from Foltz)
Silla, Korea, and the Silk
Reality Through the Arts, Spore
Non-Western Art: A Brief Guide, McKenzie
This list will be expanded. Probably add Tansen Sen.

11. High Museum

13. Sinescope

14. Types of Assignments Assigned Readings
Group Work (Mapping & Inventorying “Art”)
2 Aesthetic Encounter Reports
Midterm: objective and essay
Virtual Museum Exhibits & Critiques
Final Exam (objective and discussion)
Aesthetic encounter reports are interpretive essays based on field experiences—could be a museum visit, a viewing at the Asian film festival, our visit to Atlanta’s Hindu temple, or other. I’ll be developing an expanded menu of sites and activities that qualify as appropriate topics for “aesthetic encounter” reports).