REFLECTION
This reflection area is intended to provide space for a formal look back at the semester. You are encouraged to make connections with course goals (as listed on the syllabus), course learning, and how you transferred this learning beyond the classroom.
NOTE: You will have lab time to work on and upload the end of semester reflection for the ePortfolio in L115.
Your challenge is to comment on particular assignments and learning experiences, why the experience was valuable, and how you transferred what you learned in one setting to another setting. For example, if you learned about micro-aggressions from a visiting lecturer in TCM, you could write about that experience, include a link to a related video, and clarify what you learned. THEN, connect that to specific moments beyond the TCM class. Did you notice micro-aggressions when reading Pipeline for L115? Did the idea of micro-aggressions come up in UCOL as you discussed corporate culture? AFTER THAT, if possible, make connections to issues related to micro-aggressions you noticed at work, in the news, or on campus.
To help you organize your reflection, target three or four powerful learning moments. Use the ideas above to reinforce what you learned, how you connected it to another campus course/activity, and ways you transferred that learning into your life experience.
CLASS READINGS/ASSIGNMENTS
As part of reflecting, be sure you mention at least four class readings and/or assignments that reinforced your learning experience.
CLASS ACTIVITIES
As part of the reflection, it's ideal to make connections to in-class and out-of-class activities. These are also great places to include photos (with contextualizing captions) and other outside-of-class materials.
For example, our 2018 TLC attended Pipeline at the Indianapolis Reparatory Theatre. The play explores issues of race, family, classroom dynamics, wealth, poverty, school violence, consequences, and devotion. It intersects with diversity themes through poetry, technology, analysis of personal responsibility, and exploration of empathy. There is room to build part of your reflection on seeing Pipeline, connecting to readings in L115, and commenting on ways you feel like the experience and readings enabled you to better engage these issues beyond the classroom. [If you want to include a photo, but don't have any, here are some you could copy/paste to your pages.]
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Photos from student attendance at Pipeline, 2018, Indiana Reparatory Theatre
END OF SEMESTER REFLECTION
In a Nutshell
The End of Semester Reflection will challenge you to reflect on your experiences across UCOL, TCM, L115 and beyond. The goal is to begin seeing the semester as a whole, rather than as isolated classroom experiences. Learning to bridge the experiences from class-to-class and from class-to-work will help you transfer ideas and skill learned in one setting to another. This ability to transfer and apply what you learn in one space to the rest of life is a critical component to learning.
Portions of your reflections may be composed for a particular class and posted to Canvas. You are welcome to copy/paste that writing here in addition to other comments and observations you make about meeting course goals.
BE SURE TO LOOK BACK AT THE SYLLABUS TO REVISIT TLC CORE CONCEPTS. This can help you think about what we hoped to accomplish, what we accomplished, and how this influenced the way you see your education, career opportunities, the world around you, and the need to engage issues relating to diversity.
FROM YOUR SYLLABUS/
IUPUI THEMED LEARNING COMMUNITY: Expanding Intercultural Landscapes in STEM
DESCRIPTION: This learning community will help you explore who you are, where you are from, and where you fit in at IUPUI. We will read broadly, design interculturally, and create a map for achieving your personal ambitions and professional goals.
ESSENTIAL QUESTION: What does it mean to succeed academically in a new, intercultural landscape as you explore notions of self and other while laying a solid foundation for your professional goals?
COURSES: UCOL 110, TCM 180, and ENG-L115
This trio of courses provides a unique educational opportunity to explore expanding intercultual landscapes in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. A single group of students will study together with three faculty who work closely to create connections and transferrable skills across all three classes. Signature assignments from each of the classes will be shared in individual, student WIX ePortfolios.
Students will create academic and career plans; explore technologies and culture; and read literatures across a broad spectrum --from Bradbury's science fiction to the realism of Danticat to the jarring simplicity of Satrapi's graphic novel Persepolis.