Instructor: Mary Mostafanezhad

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    Instructor interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Geography, clip 10 of 10
    ( 2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui ; Mostafanezhad, Mary ; Henry, Jim
    Brief excerpt from interview: The students [submit] four writing assignments throughout the semester and they correspond to four different sections of the class. The writing assignments are to reflect on the readings and then in many cases to for example look up things online and apply some of the concepts from the readings to for example environmental issues locally and internationally. So a lot of the students take this opportunity to look at local issues using concepts from political ecology or looking at how globalization affects local governments.
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    Instructor interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Geography, clip 8 of 10
    ( 2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui ; Mostafanezhad, Mary ; Henry, Jim
    Brief excerpt from interview: [In World Regional Geography] we basically go through all the regions of the world. To some extent it is place-based when we go through the Australia-Oceania region. And students also have to do current events and that kind of thing. And we also watch a documentary on Nainoa Thompson and navigation and that kind of thing. What I do with that course is... make North America first and then Australia-Oceania because I feel like it's better for students to have that kind of place-based understanding of culture, politics, and all those things from a perspective that they can engage with a little bit easier and then go and look at, for example, Southeast Asia [or] sub-Saharan Africa, because they're able to sort of relate it back.
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    Instructor interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Geography, clip 3 of 10
    ( 2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui ; Mostafanezhad, Mary ; Henry, Jim
    Brief excerpt from interview: So for the Hālawa Valley heiau field trip, one of the goals of that field trip, in addition to having students have a place-based experience, was also for students to get to know each other better... after the field trip... I feel like people felt more confident to speak up in class... [and] that class discussion went a lot better.
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    Instructor interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Geography, clip 2 of 10
    ( 2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui ; Mostafanezhad, Mary ; Henry, Jim
    Brief excerpt from interview: I have two primary motivations. The first one is I always think that it's important to connect with the place that we're and the place where the students are living and the place that we collectively call home. And second I think it's an effective way to have students really apply some of the concepts and themes and theories that we're learning in class to everyday experience... [Students should be keeping] one eye on the local and one eye on the global and then connecting those two.
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    Instructor interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Geography, clip 1 of 10
    ( 2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui ; Mostafanezhad, Mary ; Henry, Jim
    Brief excerpt from interview: [I] always like to have some kind of field trip and so this semester in Culture and Environment we went to the Hālawa Valley heiau as part of the class. This is a heiau that is located under H3 and is an important sacred space for Native Hawaiians... it was kind of an eye-opening experience [for students who haven't been to a sacred space before] because the guides during our experience talked a lot about not just culture and the environment but also politics, economics, and everything else that's involved with the preservation of sacred spaces in Hawaiʻi.