AADS SENIOR SEMINAR
1 – What is this object? 2 – What aspects of this object stand out to you the most? (e.g. materials, size, shape, color, volume, brightness, etc.) 3 – What impressions and / or associations does this object invoke for you? 4 – Based on this “show & tell” object, what aspects of black study…
What: What is your object? Part 1: As you embark upon your post-graduate adventures, what do you wish to keep with you from your AADS and BC experience? Why? In my original proposal, I described my own struggle with identity formation within a racialized, classed, and gendered society that imposes its own definitions upon the…
DUE by Noon (12:00 pm) on Saturday, March 5th You may email me your responses directly as a Word document, but I encourage you to post your project check-ins to the class site.* Doing so facilitates the feedback loop and also allows you to get a sense of how your classmates are tackling similar or…
For my final project I am interested in learning more about our inner child and imagination. Based on our parenting and society’s teachings I believe we play an important role in children’s development of spirituality and how much they have spiritually evolved over time. From personal experience, I understand that nurturing children’s creativity helps children…
Mach-Hommy didn’t enter my cultural conscience until I gave a closer listen to Westside Gunn’s track “Margiela Split Toes.” His richly deep tone and smooth elisions floated above the syncopated trumpet refrain like a Dizzy Gillespie solo. Still, it would be another year before I delved more deeply into his music. When I probed further…
I hope you are doing well. My idea for my final project is still rough around the edges and I’m still entertaining multiple ideas at the moment. I’m thinking about perhaps writing poems or drawing on a weekly/monthly basis about my experiences as a Black nursing student. I don’t often get the chance to express…
During my time at BC, I have met many kinds of people coming from different walks of life. Growing up in New York City, I have always been surrounded by diversity but coming to Boston College only expanded this. I have always been exposed to so many different cultures, but being in such proximity to…