Hello! I am William, a senior Chinese major from Columbus, Ohio.  My focus for my IS is women’s portrayal in film and literature from around mid 20th century until now.  The main focus being on women writers and how they perceive what was happening during the cultural revolution and the rise of the communist government. This was mainly inspired by my love for Chinese films and the 1935 film New Woman.

I decided to take this class in order to gain a new perspective of history that wasn’t European and was outside of Asia.  Having taken Spanish through middle and high school and the first semester of my freshman year, I’ve always been interested in the history of the Spanish speaking world.  I am particularly interested in the relations between the various cultures in Latin America as well as their interactions with their colonizers.

Hi, I’m Rhys and I’m a sophomore. Up until this semester I attended Arcadia University with the intention of majoring in cultural anthropology. Through Arcadia, I studied abroad in London for a semester. It was during that time that I decided to switch my major to archaeology and ended up here, as Arcadia didn’t have an archaeology program. I’ve lived in Ohio all my life, in a suburb called Maumee that no one seems to have heard of, and I’m afraid I’m not a particularly interesting person.

My interest in this class is very broad. I enjoy learning in general, so I’m happy to take notes on whatever comes up. If I had to pick one specific thing, I suppose I’m interested in the day-to-day living and gender roles of the time period. We covered a little bit of South American history in my high school Spanish classes, but we were overall more focused on the language. In that regard, I’m also interested in how each country (their borders, dialects, etc) came to be as they are now.

Hello!

My name is Julia, and I am a freshman! I’m super duper excited to be in this class. Originally, I’m from Minnesota, but I identify most with the country my mother is from, Norway. During High School, I participated in Model United Nations, Model Assembly (A program emulating the Minnesota State government) and Robotics. My favorite color is teal, and my favorite animal is a green sea turtle (Only because dragons aren’t real).  Now, I live in Wagner Hall, and I’m super excited to finally be able to be in college, a place I have been pretty focused on since middle school.

I’ve been studying Spanish since kindergarten, and I’m very excited to be able to add more dimensions to what I already know about Latin American History. I am very interested in the indigenous populations in Latin America because I feel as if High School history courses do not focus enough on pre-Colombian Latin American history due to the focus on Europe. I’m most interested in learning about the indigenous religions before interaction with Christianity because there is not much information out there on them.