Coursework leads to professional opportunities for 鎊飪腦瞳students
Pictured above: Assistant Professor of Chinese Jingjing Cai (right) teaching with students Kade Schooling (left) and Robbie Harper (center).
At 鎊飪腦瞳, coursework can be more than a simple assignment.
Professors work with students to make the most of a high-quality paper or research, helping to find professional conferences or publications to bring students into the greater academic world.
Kade Schooling 25 found an interest in a course on Chinese film and cinema. His family moved to China when he was six, and while he calls Louisville home, the Chinese language has always piqued his interest. Assistant Professor of Chinese Jingjing Cai saw that interest and recognized a resume-building opportunity for Schooling while continuing her own research.
Professor Cai always has that perspective translating work to a professional experience, he said. I think a lot of times when you're in college, it's just like you do the schoolwork and you don't realize that those can be valuable. It's just an assignment. But Ive learned they can actually be real, professional experiences. And sometimes you need someone else to encourage you and tell you to do that, and that's what Dr. Cai did for me.
Schooling, a behavioral neuroscience major, said he hopes the experience will boost his chances at a Fulbright in Taiwan.
Her mentality was, how can she help build my resume, but also continue doing her research, Schooling said. I always really appreciated that perspective, where she really emphasized how this could help a student.
Schooling and Cai dove into research on Asian American cinema, and Schooling presented those findings at the Asia Networks Annual Conference in Atlanta, Georgia.
Centres small class sizes and favorable student-to-faculty ratio allow me to dedicate time to mentoring students as they develop their research skills, Cai said. I encourage students to select original research topics, formulate unique questions, engage critically with existing scholarship, and develop well-supported arguments.
Cai has explored issues across fields, including contributions to Chinese science fiction studies. Most recently, she published a film review in Phoenix Weekly on Exploring the Surge: Chinese Sci-Fi in Film and TV The Wandering Earth and Beyond. The publication provided a platform for analyzing the rapid rise of Chinese sci-fi in mainstream media and its reflection of cultural and technological themes.
In the Journal of Chinese Film Studies, Cais research on An Inquiry into Gender and Queer Issues in Chinese-Language Sci-Fi Film: A Case Study of The Soul was published in the prominent Sinophone journal.
And she welcomes the same for students, guiding Robbie Harper 25 to a publication in Juhe Supplement (University of Iowa Press) after his research on Work Culture and Generational Differences in American Factories.
Dr. Cai told me that my paper was really good and I could refine it and possibly get it submitted in a publication for Chinese language learners, Harper said.
Harper gained interest in Chinese during grade school in Morgan County, Kentucky. At Centre, Harper has continued his study of Chinese while majoring in Physics because of his teachers passion for the program
Every time, someone asks me about Centre, the first thing that I identify 鎊飪腦瞳with is the faculty, he said. That's the first thing. Every time. 鎊飪腦瞳does teaching right. The faculty members truly want you to realize your potential.
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Asst. Prof. Jingjing Cai
Recent publications
In the past two years, Assistant Professor of Chinese Jingjing Cai has had multiple research topics published. Below is a list of Cai's recent work.
- Exploring the Surge: Chinese Sci-Fi in Film and TV The Wandering Earth and Beyond in
- An Inquiry into Gender and Queer Issues in Chinese-Language Sci-Fi Film: A Case Study of The Soul in the
- Intersectionality and Decentralized Narrative: The Creative Use of the Multiverse in Everything Everywhere All at Once in
- Developing Film-Based Teaching Materials for an Advanced Chinese Class, published by the
