Asian Eats

FINAL EXAM (100 points); 5 pages, type-written, double spaced; turned in through DropBox. DUE: December 13 @ 5 pm. NO EXTENSIONS FOR FINAL EXAMS. Your final exam essay focuses on your understanding of the FIVE course learning objectives/outcomes. Go back and review them first. Topic: Analyze the five AAAS 100 course learning objectives/outcomes (below) in the context of all the projects in this class (Yuk-Yum; Beautiful Asian Food; Tea; Rice; Curry and Spices; Globalization; and Asian Food and Sustainability). This is not a research paper but an opportunity to show what you have learned in the course through how you apply your examples. Use correct essay style and endnotes with citations. Course Learning Objectives

Course Goals/Student Learning Objectives By the end of this course, students should be able to: Global competencies (4) 1) Describe basic cultural differences and similarities in the Asian/Pacific rim area based on distinct foodways. 2) Demonstrate the importance of trade, social class, and cultural diffusion in the region through the specific example of distinct foods or cuisines. a) The concept ‘diffusion’ is specifically used in this course to mean the spread of a commodity along a trade route before the concept of national boundaries arose in the modern era; b) The concept “diffusion and transformation” is used to mean the spread of a type of food WITHIN a specific culture and how it transforms over time, including its taste and appearance, rituals associated with it, who uses it, how it is used, etc. 3) Demonstrate an understanding regarding the process of globalization through the transculturation of Asian food. The concept ‘transcultural’ (across cultures) is used in this course to mean the introduction of a food from one culture to another across ‘national boundaries’ in the modern era. In that way it is similar to diffusion. The subsequent new transformation of an introduced food is called “neoculturation.” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transculturation) 4) Demonstrate an understanding of global interconnections by describing a “food” problem that transcends national borders and the negotiations underway to solve that problem. Information literacy and technology skills competencies (1) 5) Demonstrate continuing improvement in information literacy and technology skills as shown by : – a critical use of websites and online information; – the use of digital media and formats to communicate and work collaboratively with peers, experts, and others to support individual learning and contribute to the learning of others. Final Exam Paper format: Introduction; Development; Conclusion

• Introduction: Should introduce the topic ( 5 Learning Outcomes) and how you are going to analyze it

• Development: Reflect on how the various projects in the course strengthened your understanding of the five AAAS 100 learning outcomes. Provide explicit examples from the projects (tea, rice, etc.) that illustrate your analysis of the learning outcomes. Be sure to use examples from three or more projects for this essay; i.e. avoid using just one project as an example for all five outcomes.

• Conclusion: Explain how this course has changed your understanding of Asia.