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 that explores other nations and cultures, in accordance with Global Engagement Minor requirements.
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 …
During a visit to one of Cuba’s mental health centers through my Global Coursework class specific to the region of the Caribbean (SOC Health & Society Cuba), I was struck by the cultural differences I experienced. The facility had once been the home of a wealthy landowner before the revolution, after which point its beautiful …
Before taking SPAN 236: Cervantes with Professor Armstrong-Roche (my Global Coursework class for the region of Europe), my view of the Middle Ages was characterized by an understanding of the social repression of organized religion, the restrictions on the rights of women, and the lack of social mobility between the rich and the poor. Before …
