Interdisciplinary Seminar- "I am charlotte simmons"
What I Was Supposed to Learn:
This was a public health seminar based on the fiction novel I Am Charlotte Simmons. For our final we had to pick a discussion question and argue it in depth with a 5-7 page paper. This was my first honors course and first paper in college as well. I loved the seminar style of the class and it really made me appreciate the small class size honors classes were able to offer me. More importantly since the novel detailed a college freshman, the topics of discussion were extremely relevant and great for developing my opinions on my first year at the UW. I'm really grateful for the class, my professor and my classmates. As an 18 year old freshman I was discussing ideas that even now I'm a little shocked I had the insight to write about; as such I have bolded some statements in the paper that were particularly important to me and still are to this day.
- psychological, emotional and societal influences that affect college freshman
- whether college stereotypes were true and the reasons behind them
- if we as freshman related to any struggles of the characters in the novel
- Everything I was supposed to!
- College stereotypes were true with some individuals and that was extremely disappointing
This was a public health seminar based on the fiction novel I Am Charlotte Simmons. For our final we had to pick a discussion question and argue it in depth with a 5-7 page paper. This was my first honors course and first paper in college as well. I loved the seminar style of the class and it really made me appreciate the small class size honors classes were able to offer me. More importantly since the novel detailed a college freshman, the topics of discussion were extremely relevant and great for developing my opinions on my first year at the UW. I'm really grateful for the class, my professor and my classmates. As an 18 year old freshman I was discussing ideas that even now I'm a little shocked I had the insight to write about; as such I have bolded some statements in the paper that were particularly important to me and still are to this day.
Prompt
All but for Camille, the Asian American and out-spoken female member of the Millenial Mutants, we see people-of-color other than African Americans relegated into the background in this novel. Why is that? Also, describe the significance of Camille. Highlights "After all of this has been established the addition of their race creates a new dimension to the characters, they represent more than a stereotype but the aspects of American society that are immoral." "After much analysis, Wolfe’s decision to make two of the main characters white is justified; he never purposefully ignored the option of other races. He started building the characters with the social learning theory and the health belief model to humanize the shallow stereotype they represent." "Camille is not the stereotypical Asian; in fact she may not be the stereotypical anything. Through her it is revealed that although other characters in the novel embody their stereotype, they didn’t have to succumb to their surroundings. " |
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