Student: Mele Kalama-Kingma
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The course is also about the performance of that music and poetry and as such will explore how our music relates to hula, formal protocols, and daily life, through creative projects that will showcase our music at the end-of-year Hōʻike. While this course will not require every student to sing, dance, or play and instrument, every student will find a way to contribute to the performance of music and dance in some capacity, and part of your grade will depend upon it.
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Item type: Item , Student interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Hawaiian Studies, clip 15 of 15(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Kalamakingma, Mele; Henry, JimBrief excerpt from interview: The two writing assignments [in this class] were the most revealing to me... I am able to put on paper exactly how music has impacted my life. I think my perspectives on writing have changed a little bit [in a positive way].Item type: Item , Student interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Hawaiian Studies, clip 14 of 15(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Kalamakingma, Mele; Henry, JimBrief excerpt from interview: It's really crucial in any Writing Intensive course to really know what you want to write about. When [writing assignments are applied to] your life experiences, it makes such a difference. The Writing Intensive classes that I have taken have been helpful as long as... it relates to me.Item type: Item , Student interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Hawaiian Studies, clip 13 of 15(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Kalamakingma, Mele; Henry, JimBrief excerpt from interview: These are two songs that might group wrote as an assignment in our class ... one song is about your relationship with the ocean, and the ocean represents your lover, too ... mele hoʻo ipo ipo ... 'come sleep in the ocean' ... it's in Hawaiian ... and six chords would be too much ... in more traditional music you could play 30 songs from three different chords ... the chords on the ʻukulele are kind of a guide, it's the voice ... I am the only one in the group who plays ʻukulele ... we have another who knows more Hawaiian ... that's how our kumu planned it ... one is into hula, so she will be adding hula ... and one guy plays guitar, so he follows me ... and another girl likes to sing ... nobody has written a song, so this one just happened ... so, it was meant to be ... based on our first assignment, the way we write, he could probably tell who would be good with who ... I can't even believe we wrote a songItem type: Item , Student interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Hawaiian Studies, clip 12 of 15(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Kalamakingma, Mele; Henry, JimBrief excerpt from interview: [The writing is] a reminder of the things that I have learned in this class and writing it down is so important. For me, [writing is]... a documentation of my history... I will continue to write forever.Item type: Item , Student interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Hawaiian Studies, clip 11 of 15(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Kalamakingma, Mele; Henry, JimBrief excerpt from interview: I don't see myself [living] anywhere else but [Hawaiʻi].Item type: Item , Student interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Hawaiian Studies, clip 10 of 15(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Kalamakingma, Mele; Henry, JimBrief excerpt from interview: I see [writing] a book figuring into my future. [When] I think how much we've learned from books or from... songs... [and how] I've learned a lot from [them it makes me want to write a book]. I think for the sake of our people and for my children, writing a book about our legacy of our family would be awesome. Writing a book with Hawaiian thought in the right way is still an awesome thing to do... that way I can have something tangible to use.Item type: Item , Student interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Hawaiian Studies, clip 9 of 15(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Kalamakingma, Mele; Henry, JimBrief excerpt from interview: Because of this class [the other students and I] will all definitely be friends and we all care about each other, and that is what I enjoy about taking classes in Hawaiian studies. I might rethink my PhD because of this course.Item type: Item , Student interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Hawaiian Studies, clip 8 of 15(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Kalamakingma, Mele; Henry, JimBrief excerpt from interview: I do know more about Hawaiian music, which means I know more about Hawaiʻi. I have learned so much about... how to be resilient through this class.Item type: Item , Student interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Hawaiian Studies, clip 7 of 15(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Kalamakingma, Mele; Henry, JimBrief excerpt from interview: I will probably write more songs because of this class; [This course helps with] realizing your place and the place you come from. I'll have more relationship to my land, to where I come from, because of this class.Item type: Item , Student interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Hawaiian Studies, clip 6 of 15(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Kalamakingma, Mele; Henry, JimBrief excerpt from interview: Writing, in general, [is a weakness for me]... my challenge is being able to really tell what I want to say in the way I want to say it on paper.Item type: Item , Student interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Hawaiian Studies, clip 5 of 15(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Kalamakingma, Mele; Henry, JimBrief excerpt from interview: Success would be being able to really pinpoint those times in your life that music impacts you... but more importantly why it impacts your life. [Most of my classmates wrote] about land; we're all talking about the same thing... we all have the commonality in land, in our culture, that grounds us. Even though we all come from different places, we're still singing, talking, writing about the same things. Itʻs all about land.Item type: Item , Student interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Hawaiian Studies, clip 4 of 15(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Kalamakingma, Mele; Henry, JimBrief excerpt from interview: The assignments are probably the best part of the course... mostly because you are able to self-reflect on your life and how things impact your life. I think as a student, maybe we don't get that chance. In my classes as a public health person, we're not asked to reflect on our own positionality. When you have a chance to reflect on your life in a way that you can see it on paper I think its helpful and its also maybe healing.Item type: Item , Student interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Hawaiian Studies, clip 3 of 15(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Kalamakingma, Mele; Henry, JimBrief excerpt from interview: The challenges are to really pinpoint places in your life that impact you based on what you are going through or what you were experiencing at that time...and then pairing that with music history... So what's happening on the land and what's happening for the Hawaiians and what's happening with my life... you have to have a clear and concise way to tell that story. The best pieces of music you listen to are about land, they're about place, like my place as a Hawaiian or my place in Hawaiʻi.Item type: Item , Student interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Hawaiian Studies, clip 2 of 15(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Kalamakingma, Mele; Henry, JimBrief excerpt from interview: There are a lot of different skills [in the class]... We all have different expertise... Jon plays music for us to listen to...I think we all find a commonality in listening to the song and knowing what its about.Item type: Item , Student interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Hawaiian Studies, clip 1 of 15(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Kalamakingma, Mele; Henry, JimBrief excerpt from interview: I chose this course because of the department itself, Hawaiian Studies, has really amazing professors that I always feel blessed to learn from. [I also chose this course] because of kumu Jon Osorio being the teacher. Our class is about creating songs and learning about the creating of songs and the relationship that the [songwriters] had to the land and to the people... for me, taking this class still connects me to who I am and to the place that I live in and sometimes I feel that I might not get that in my other classes.