Recognize and better understand specific multi-cultural identities

Recognize and better understand specific multi-cultural identities

The goal of this exercise is to provide the opportunity for students to understand through first hand experiences, that there are a wide varieties of identities in a multicultural America. Each student is required to prepare a 6 to 8 page printed on paper that summarizes two personal new experiences that help you recognize and better understand specific multi-cultural identities. This assignment requires that you attend two separate events that are targeted at a specific cultural identity across two sources of identity (see tables below). You must attend two events targeted at a “source of identity” that you havenot previously been exposed to. These events/activities/meetings include those associated with the fine arts, music, dance, handicrafts, food and drink, industry and business, agriculture, education, literature, and language, science, government, and religion. Basically, the assignment requires you to specify how two specific “events” enriched your understanding of multicultural identities. The paper should include the following components:

Overview of the source of identity. This section should address the following types of questions relative to the experience that you are going to be writing and talking about. For example, What is your source of identity for each of the selected topics? What source of identity did you choose to experience? Did you attend these events with someone or did you have this experience alone? Why did you choose these two sources of identity? What were these events? (date, time format, people in attendance, etc.).

Overview of knowledge you gained about other sources of identity. This section should identify and describe in detail some of the things that you learned about another culture identity during your experiences. For example, What did you learn about the basis of community and cultural expressions of the events that you visited? How did you learn these things?

Overview of the personal growth associated with this cultural identity assignment. This section should provide a brief description of some of things that you learned about yourself through your attendance/involvement event associated with an unfamiliar cultural identify.

In order to attain a satisfactory grade on this assignment it is expected that the paper include an introduction that allows the reader to understand the objectives of your paper and a conclusion that effectively summarizes the knowledge attained through the completion of this assignment. The paper should effectively communicate the required information making use of examples to illustrate important points and must be integrated with the lectures and readings. The paper must be well organized and written (I suggest you have class mates or friends proof read your papers before you turn them in to me)

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.