1. What do you feel like you learned this unit that you didn’t know before?

From Unit 4, I learned more about ethnographies and how they are composed. Prior to this unit, I had minimum knowledge of what it really was and what they are used for.

2. What did you already know , but now understand better or learned more about?

I had a better understanding of how ethnographies were conducted and the variety of studies that can be done.

3. What (if anything) do you feel like I wanted you to learn, but you still aren’t sure about?

I wanted to learn about how ethnographies are used and if any work is done based on the studies conducted.

4. What are the strengths of your final project article? What are you most proud of?

Some strengths from my final project article are the essential focus on how society behaved during the pandemic and if there are any shifts in regards to the spike of cases rising in NYC.

5. If you were to revise your final project article, what would you want to do differently?

If I were to revise my final project, I would probably change the area I conducted my study. I felt like if I were to do my study in more populated areas such as Times Square that I could observe more and potentially have more notes in the field note section.

6. How would you describe or rate your participation/engagement in this unit?

My participation would be rated as an 8 in this unit.

7. What did you do this unit that helped make you successful?

The ethnography examples provided helped me in completing the project.

8. What skills or habits do you want to bring with you to next semester, and what habits do you want to leave behind?

I plan to use the skill of writing analysis based on my studies for ethnographies or science articles.

9. What was your favorite unit this semester and why?

My favorite unit this semester had to be the second unit of Humanities Criticism because it made me view films, shows, and books in a different approach. It made me view more on the structure and analysis of the film instead of the film itself.

10. Do you have any suggestions for what I should change when I revise this class for next semester?

I feel like it’s fine with the current way the class is assembled. It’s organized and there are many examples provided with each lecture that is helpful especially during the current situation of online classes.

1.What do you feel like you learned this unit that you didn’t know before?

From Unit 3, I was able to learn more regarding writing a science report and inquiring about fantasy to be combined. The structure of a science report was easier to understand after working on the imaginary science article.

2.What did you already know , but now understand better or learned more about?

I already knew how to write a science report in APA format but I was able to understand more about the methods and results and what they really required.

3.What (if anything) do you feel like I wanted you to learn, but you still aren’t sure about?

I feel satisfied with what I learned from this Unit.

4.What are the strengths of your final project article? What are you most proud of?

The strengths of my final project were incorporating a science report on a show that I was able to extract information in order to compose a proper science article that will be interesting to read.

5.If you were to revise your final project article, what would you want to do differently?

I would want to add more information to my methods because there was an opportunity to expand more on it.

6.How would you describe or rate your participation/engagement in this unit?

I would rate my participation/engagement in this unit as a 7.

7.What did you do this unit that helped make you successful?

I kept returning back to the lecture videos and viewing the examples provided to compare with my paper and see if I was going in the right direction.

8.What (if anything) do you want to do differently in the next unit?

I would want to analyze different writings and break down its structure, just like what we did for the different news articles. It was fascinating to see how different they are from one another when it comes to their wording and the information they incorporated.

9.Please complete the sentence: “This class would be better if……”

This class would be better if we had in-person lectures. It would be more engaging to have class discussions and communicate more with fellow peers.

10.For you, how did this unit compare to the News Unit and/or the Humanities Unit?

This unit was more interesting to see how creativity flows when it combines with creating Science articles.

11.What (if anything) from this unit would you like to discuss/think about/explore further? (either this semester or just in your life)

I would like to explore further on composing more science articles when using data. It allows me to gather questions I have and gives me the ability to conduct research on it.

12. What would you like to see in the remaining weeks of the semester?

I would like to explore more various types of writing pieces and have the opportunity to create our own. I feel like with practice it would benefit us as we progress with our own studies if we come across having to write different types of papers.

   1.What do you feel like you learned this unit that you didn’t know before?

I was able to discover what humanities criticism is and how to incorporate it with different forms of media that I was already aware of. I was also able to learn how to compose academic paragraphs for humanities criticism.

 2. What did you already know , but now understand better or learned more about?

I learned more about close reading when it comes to viewing texts. Instead of viewing the content and analyzing it, I was able to view how the written piece was assembled.

3.What (if anything) do you feel like I wanted you to learn, but you still aren’t sure about?

I feel satisfied with the information I learned from this unit.

    4. What are the strengths of your final project articles? What are you most proud of?

The strengths of my final project articles would have to be the information I accumulated from watching the film that made the transition from Twitter tweets into academic paragraphs more comfortable. It included enough information for a person who has not watched the film to understand the general idea of what the film and scenes are about.

    5. If you were to revise your final project articles, what would you want to do differently?

I would have gone back to the tweets I made and expand it a bit more with my paragraphs. I was trying to include scenes for my analysis and didn’t want to give too much information around it so it appeared more of a summary rather than an analysis.

   6. How would you describe or rate your participation/engagement in this unit?

I would describe my engagement with this unit to be captivating due to the flexibility I had with choosing a piece of media to do my humanities criticism on. Choosing a film that I enjoyed made the project feel more delightful to work on.

   7. What did you do this unit that helped make you successful?

The examples of the academic paragraphs for the Shrek film has helped me recognize what I needed to include in my own project so I can focus more on my analysis rather than creating a summary and using more transition sentences.

   8. What (if anything) do you want to do differently in the next unit?

I feel like maybe viewing more videos regarding other forms of criticism would be helpful to see because to do a humanities criticism on films and shows is challenging when it comes to picking certain scenes and analyzing it without just discussing what’s happening when in fact we have to discuss more on the overall image.

  9. What additional things (resources, support, information, etc.) do you wish you had had for this unit?

I feel like I had everything needed to complete this unit.

  10. Is there anything you would like me to change (in the structure of our course, in how I’m presenting information, etc.) going forward?

I’m comfortable with the structure of the course as of right now so there isn’t much that needs to change.

  11. For you, how did this unit compare to the News Unit?

This unit is more engaging and allowed me to express my own views about a film instead of focusing on the structure of news articles and creating one.

  12. What (if anything) from this unit would you like to discuss/think about/explore further? (either this semester or just in your life)

I would like to explore more about humanities criticism in films, specifically different genres of films, and see how I’m able to incorporate what I’ve learned into those films.

1. What do you feel like you learned this unit that you didn’t know before?

In this unit, I was able to comprehend how writers were able to apply their political perspective in articles that are meant to be news reporting and/or analysis articles. Before understanding this, I have read articles and immediately relied on them assuming that the information that was given is accurate and correct. I have gained better knowledge to be more careful in what I’m reading and be sure to locate any biased opinions that could potentially impact my own perspective regarding a topic.

 

2. What did you already know , but now understand better or learned more about?

I already knew that there were different forms of news reporting, but now I understand the format in which these articles are created. I was able to see how the structure of articles could be made to add in certain word choices that could persuade the reader to agree with the viewpoint of the writer without having to tell their own ideas in their writing.

 

3.What (if anything) do you feel like I wanted you to learn, but you still aren’t sure about?

The statement that “Politics” not having to always be about party and politicians is still something I’m a bit unsure about. I think from the constant attention of parties and political figures the media focuses on has made me assumed that’s what politics is all about so I will adjust my knowledge to understand that there are other topics and information that are also part of politics.

 

4. What are the strengths of your final project articles? What are you most proud of?

The strength in my final project articles is the creativity and the organization of my writing that was able to stay in the subgenres of each article. I chose the 2nd option that I had to write 3 subgenres articles revolving around the same topic. While writing the analysis article, I was struggling a bit in maintaining it as an analysis article without inputting opinions that could change the article to becoming an opinion article. After revising my paper, I was able to correct my potential mistakes and keep them as a news fact article, an analysis article, and an opinion article.

 

5. If you were to revise your final project articles, what would you want to do differently?

If I were to revise my final project articles, I would have added more information surrounding the context of the topic. I incorporated some of the hero and villain situation based on Kohei Horikoshi’s manga series My Hero Academia but I didn’t add so much information revolving the context of what I was using to write my articles, in which I felt like I should have so readers could have a better understanding of my articles.

 

6. How would you describe or rate your participation/engagement in this unit?

My participation/engagement in this unit has been frequently from the consistent annotation I would make with the article’s examples and the comments to the annotations. I also participated in responding to the discussion questions underneath the lectures.

 

7. What did you do this unit that helped make you successful?

I was able to incorporate the word choices to be more neutral to prevent adding in a certain amount of bias in my articles.

 

8. What (if anything) do you want to do differently in the next unit?

I would like to view more on the structure of different genres rather than viewing the analysis of the text. It was intriguing breaking down the news articles and focusing on its structure and how it’s incorporated in different subgenres.

 

9. What additional things (resources, support, information, etc.) do you wish you had had for this unit?

I wished we would’ve had more information regarding how politics is more than politicians and parties by showing articles as examples. It would have helped to see actual articles that are still about politics without mentioning too much about the presidential campaign or about politicians.

 

10. Is there anything you would like me to change (in the structure of our course, in how I’m presenting information, etc.) going forward?

I enjoy the current structure of the course and the presentation of information it’s easy to comprehend and the explanation is well written that I could go back and see whenever I’m struggling on an assignment or answering the discussion questions.

 

11. What (if anything) from this unit would you like to discuss/think about/explore further? (either this semester or just in your life)

I would like to explore further the identification of political perspectives that is in news articles.