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Reflecting on the Making of “Jewish College Students”

In this last project of the semester, the main argument we try to make in the video is that students who belong to minority groups often face discrimination, and have trouble finding their own identity when they face new chapters in their lives. We used various sources that studied this phenomena along with Sterling’s personal…

Collaborative Writing on Our Autoethnography of a Youngest Child: Reflecting and Looking Forward

Our video represents Natalie’s narrative: the experience of a youngest child reflecting on the way her life has been shaped by birth order with a new perspective she’s developed as a college student. Throughout the video making process, our group strived to take scholarly pieces that explained why she felt certain ways, and how her…

Looking Inward and Reflecting on the Effects and Advantages of Left-Handedness

Adversity is something that we overcome every single day, from bouncing back from a bad grade, to finding time to do your laundry, we beat some sort of challenge each day. However, this type of adversity was different. No longer were we dependent on ourselves, but rather we became reliant on the work of…

Reflecting on the Making of “Ethnic Identity of Italian Americans”

To start off Project Four we were put into groups and then given the task of selecting one of our group member’s autoethnography from Project Three to transform into a video. The goal of this project was to turn an autoethnography, from the previous project, into a video which would be interesting for our peers…

Writing “College Football Fans as an In-Group”

As a group we faced many challenges coming into this project; time always seems to be the biggest constraint on our lives and it was a large factor in this project. This was the first major group project most of us have done in college. We have all done major papers and research assignments before…

Reflecting on “The ‘Needs’ of a First Generation College Student”

One of the main challenges of Project 4 was to shift our purpose of the autoethnography to better appeal to the audience. In Project 3, the autoethnography was aimed towards a more scholarly audience with knowledge and interest in the studies of humans. The purpose was to add personal reflection that added a new perspective…

Reflecting on the Life of an Introvert

The discussion of introverts is both a fascinating and informative topic. Working on this project allowed me to learn more about myself and about my introverted friends. One aspect that I think we did very well was incorporating our evidence into our video. In the class workshops, we received positive reviews on how the evidence…