For my international education week activity, I chose to attend the International Festival of Games. I wanted to go to an event where I could engage with many different cultures in a non-academic environment. I think that fun and play are core elements to a community, and I wanted to learn about how this fundamental …
The class discussion and activity regarding study abroad made me think a lot about my own experiences, since I have known for a long time that I want to study abroad. The perspective of the reading made me have to think critically about my approach to studying abroad, since I felt that maybe, if I …
This week’s class focused strongly on the class objective of understanding the impact of globalization on international communication. The reading, the class activity, and the guest lecture all contributed to a better understanding of this theme, which I was fascinated by since I have not had the opportunity to study the economics or history of …
I enjoyed this week’s peer review activity because it allowed me to have a frame of reference for self-critique and comparison of my own work. The feedback I received was helpful in learning what I should work to improve, and it so happened that the other works I read seemed to have different strengths and …
Disney and the media it produces have a huge impact globally, and it is incredibly rare to find someone who hasn’t seen a multitude of their movies. Due to this huge cultural influence, it seems to be a good idea to study the themes and understand what messages are being perpetuated and communicated, especially to …
The story circle activity of this week helped me see various applications of our studies and how they can influence our lived experiences. It also served to associate a more concrete idea of what it means to communicate with others across the globe, as it provided faces and names for these individuals who are focusing …
This week’s class brought up some ideas that I hadn’t thought of before, as I never really took the time to define the distinctions between different types of cultural communications and studies. Additionally, the reading held a perspective that I feel I haven’t heard in that way before. Since it is new for me, I …
Going into this week’s class, we all shared the context of having read and thought about the text regarding cultural differences and the categories factoring into that, but, as always, we all brought to the class a distinct conclusion from what we read, due to the differences in each of our personal histories. During class, …
When I first looked at the assigned reading for this week, I felt as if it was full of things I already knew. I’ve done various forms of reflection through writing before, and I assumed that this would be a simple continuation of that. In class, when we discussed the written examples, I realized that …
This week’s class started off a bit more challenging, as my breakout group realized that due to the busyness of midterms, we hadn’t been able to dedicate as close attention to the reading as in past weeks and we worried about having to present our topic to the whole group. However, I’m now really glad …
