assignment

Essay 1: Review, focus, and extend overall seminar experience to demonstrate learning and preview potential applications in research, teaching, or creative writing. (Samples below in alphabetical order)

Charles Colson, Cultural Narrative as a Mode of Organization

Julie Garza, Multicultural Literature: Understanding the Differences in Immigrant and Minority Literature through Research

Samuel Mathis, The Cultural Immigrant Narrative

Pam Richey, Creating the Mosaic of the Immigrant Narrative

Katie Vitek, Immigrant Narrative as Cultural Narrative

Essay 2: Choose a topic from list below, combine 2+ topics, or develop a topic of your own that refers to course texts and varies objectives.

2c. Dominant culture: What glimpses did you gain? Why won’t students recognize or discuss? What are the costs and benefits of identifying the USA’s dominant culture as another ethnic group rather than a norm?

Christine Moon, The Dominant Culture and the Evolving Future

Katie Vitek, The Ambiguity of Blame: Defining the Dominant Culture

2f. Revisit the minority-immigrant distinction focusing on assimilation and intermarriage . . .

Mary Brooks, Love, Honor and Assimilate

2g. Develop a question or topic of your own that refers to course texts and varies objectives.

Charles Colson, Immigrants: A Threat to American Identity?

Daryl Edwards, American Attitudes Toward Immigration: Some Things Never Change