assignment

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

Meryl Bazaman, How Initiation Impacts the American Dream’s Outcomes: Realized Potentialities and Limitations of the Immigrant Narrative

Carlos Marquina, The American Immigrant Narrative: Melting Pot? Or Buffet Table?

Sheila Morris, Why Immigrant Literature should be taught in High School

Amy L. Sasser, From Nothing to Knowledge: My Journey Through the Multicultural Mélange

Daniel B. Stuart, The Multi-Faceted Nature of Multicultural Literature: Issues Beyond the 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?

Carrie C. Scott, Bucking the Dominant Culture: The Elitism of “Other”

Daniel B. Stuart, Deconstructing the Dominant Culture: Defining the Difference Between Cultures and Social Identifications

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

Carlos Marquina, The Gatekeepers