What does Global Engagement Mean to Me?
Henry Leighton Wesleyan University Class of 2025
What does Global Engagement Mean to Me?
Henry Leighton Wesleyan University Class of 2025
Coursework associated with the final seminar of the Global Engagement Minior, CGST 305.
This is an assignment that I completed through a Global Coursework class for the region of Latin America: SPAN288: Territories of Dwelling, Desire, and Resistance in Latin America. Students were instructed to annotate a quote from a book by José María Arguedas called Los Ríos Profundos. We were expected to integrate Andean Indigenous conceptualizations of …
This is the second part of the CGST305 – Global Engagement Capstone Seminar Photo Reflection Workshop assignment, which involves my written reflection to classmate submissions. To see part 1, with a more in-depth explanation of the assignment and my own submission, click here: (https://henryleightonglobalengagement.wescreates.wesleyan.edu/spanish-language-study/the-billboard/). One of the pictures where my interpretation differed most directly from …
I gave this presentation as part of the GEM Capstone Seminar. It was interesting to look back at my experiences attending a Spanish immersion school as a child and moving through the United States education system with an eye to cultural biases in the ways in which we are taught to articulate our family histories …
While touring one of Cuba’s health facilities, I found this poster very fascinating as a physical representation of the Cuban healthcare system and its differences with respect to the American system to which I was accustomed. In the United States I haven’t come across this level of cost transparency, and this representation isn’t intended to …
One day, when walking through Old Havana, my friends and I came across the shop for Clandestina, Cuba’s first private fashion brand. The company references the clandestine operations that characterized the revolution’s resistance to the US-backed Batista dictatorship, but its existence marks the transformation of Cuba’s economy with allowances for more privately-owned businesses. There is …
I completed this reflection as part of an assignment for our CGST305 Capstone Seminar. Students were instructed to select an image from their study abroad experience, and write a reflection analyzing its context. The images were displayed around the classroom, first without the written reflections, and then with that context. We were expected to write …
I watched the movie Rafiki and wrote this reflection as part of a Power of Language Week assignment for CGST205: Global Engagement Introductory Seminar. I returned to expand on my ideas in CGST305: Global Engagement Capstone Seminar, shown below. I had read Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s book The Thing Around Your Neck and so I thought …
