Globalized Cultures: "Altering the Old and New"
Enduring Idea: Globalization is the process of interchanging world views influencing international integration through products and other areas of culture. There are many reasons for globalization including climate change, trade, migration, and the spread of knowledge. Globalization is one of the reasons for the change in cultures and their traditions all throughout the world.
Rationale: Globalization is dated back to the mid-1980s and continues to happen today. Our culture is being changed just as much as other world cultures. Students may not realize that their culture and traditions today have changed from the American culture in the past. Students need to learn about the transformation in their culture and how it effects other world cultures today.
Key Concepts:
- Globalization effects our culture and tradition
-Globalization creates constant change in society.
-By looking at art today by certain contemporary artists you can see the relationship between past and present culture and traditions throughout the world (Visual Culture).
Essential Questions:
- What is globalization?
- How has it effected our own culture?
- How has it effected other cultures around us?
- How has our own culture influenced the change in others?
- What traditions do you know of from our culture's past that are not present today?
Unit Objectives:
- Students will understand globalization and the effects it has on their own culture.
- Students will discuss the changes from the past and present of their own culture and other cultures in the world.
- Students will learn how artists today portray globalization.
Rationale: Globalization is dated back to the mid-1980s and continues to happen today. Our culture is being changed just as much as other world cultures. Students may not realize that their culture and traditions today have changed from the American culture in the past. Students need to learn about the transformation in their culture and how it effects other world cultures today.
Key Concepts:
- Globalization effects our culture and tradition
-Globalization creates constant change in society.
-By looking at art today by certain contemporary artists you can see the relationship between past and present culture and traditions throughout the world (Visual Culture).
Essential Questions:
- What is globalization?
- How has it effected our own culture?
- How has it effected other cultures around us?
- How has our own culture influenced the change in others?
- What traditions do you know of from our culture's past that are not present today?
Unit Objectives:
- Students will understand globalization and the effects it has on their own culture.
- Students will discuss the changes from the past and present of their own culture and other cultures in the world.
- Students will learn how artists today portray globalization.
Indianware. 2012.
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Little Chief. 2012.
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Zachary Presley
Presley is a contemporary artist in Oklahoma that explores his mixed heritage of Native American and American cultures and how they coexist. Presley speaks out about how Native American culture stereotypes are commercialized by today's American culture. This shows the students the effect of globalization from our own culture and how it alters the culture itself. |
Li Lihong
Lihong is a contemporary sculptor from Dezhin Jin. His works explore taking an American logo and glazing them with chinese motifs to show the upbringing of cultural revolution and how the influence of American culture has changed his own. Students will learn how their own culture effects others in another world culture. |
Apple - China (Blue), 2007
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Three Friends in Winter, 2007
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Maymester MSCI 460. 2013
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The Garlic. 2013
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Maura Kenny
Kenny is a local watercolorist here in Horry County. Her "Out of Hobcaw" series reflects on the preservation of Hobcaw Barony by showing the past and present. Students will be able to see how the culture in their own community has changed through the years and how it has developed. |