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You must choose one of the following options:
- A) a multicultural interview; OR
- B) Interview with a Historically Resilient/Historically Underepresented Person
Interview Assignment Option A: Multicultural Interview
The goal for this assignment is to develop a deeper understanding of how the social and cultural environment shapes human cognition, affect/emotion, and behavior by, first, gaining awareness of another person’s home culture and, second, reflecting on the similarities and differences between your interviewee’s experiences and your own. In this way, you will demonstrate that you understand the dynamics of cultural diversity.
For Option A, you will interview an individual over the age of 18 years old who comes from a culture/sociocultural group that is different from your own. The person you interview may not be a relative or friend of yours (unless you really have no other options; please reach out to me first to see if I might be able to connect you with someone). However, you can connect with someone in the course (one of your peers that you just met in the class this semester). Arrange a time free from interruptions and other people in a setting comfortable for the person being interviewed. Take careful notes during the interview or tape it (with permission from the person being interviewed) and review it later. Of course, please consider everyone’s safety and the needs/wants of the interviewee. If the interviewee is uncomfortable with meeting in person, please provide alternative options, such as a phone call or Zoom video conference. You can also use Facetime, WhatsApp or other apps with the permission of the interviewee.
The interview will be semi-structured: Most questions are provided for you, but you also will ask follow-up questions after each of the required questions in order to gain a detailed understanding of your interviewee’s experiences. You also will write two formal (open-ended, not closed-ended) questions of your own. For these questions, think about your own social and cultural environment and personal experiences up to this point in your life. Considering the culture of the person you are interviewing, what areas of experience do you suspect might be different from your own? Which aspects of the person’s culture are you curious to learn more about? Write out your two original questions before conducting your interview. Here is a guide that may help you to formulate some questions: https://www.d.umn.edu/~hrallis/courses/1100sp04/assignments/learn_cultures_qs.html (Links to an external site.)
Required Questions for Interview Option A:
Read these questions carefully before conducting your interview. Make sure you understand the substance of each question: you must be prepared to paraphrase each question and provide examples as needed in order to communicate effectively with your interviewee. Remember to ask follow-up questions as necessary.
- Ask your interviewee to bring with them an artifact that represents their culture/identified sociocultural group to the interview (so let them know ahead of time, before your scheduled session). An artifact can be a photograph, letter, quilt, clothing, or any other object that holds personal and cultural meaning to the individual. Ask them to explain/describe what they brought with them and why is it important/meaningful as well as how it represents/symbolizes their culture;
- What is your definition of “culture”?/How do you define “culture”?;
- Is there anything you would like to share/others to know that we have not discussed here about you or your culture/sociocultural group with which you identify and/or to which you have been ascribed?
Interview Assignment Option B: Interview with a Historically Resilient/Historically Underepresented Person
Choose someone over the age of 18 years old to interview about their personal experiences with prejudice, discrimination, exclusion, inequality, inequity, tolerance, etc.
The interview should focus on their perspective and experiences and their intersectional identities (e.g., Dis/Ability identified, BIPOC, UPAC, AAPI, Deaf, SWANA, biracial/multiracial/multiethnic identity, etc.). The purpose is to call attention to and interrogate/challenge the institutional and structural processes and mechanisms through which racial, ethnic, and cultural groups are rendered into a minority/are minoritized. Thus, this interview serves as a platform to give voice and power to those who are often disregarded, unacknowledged, silenced, or ignored by society and to give them an opportunity to share about themselves and aspects of their identity, and possibly even dispel or challenge certain myths, ideas, or commonly held beliefs/assumptions they have witnessed/experienced.
The person you interview may not be a relative or friend of yours (unless you really have no other options; please reach out to me first to see if I might be able to connect you with someone). However, you can connect with someone in the course (one of your peers that you just met in the class this semester). Arrange a time free from interruptions and other people in a setting comfortable for the person being interviewed. Take careful notes during the interview or tape it (with permission from the person being interviewed) and review it later. Of course, please consider everyone’s safety and the needs/wants of the interviewee. If the interviewee is uncomfortable with meeting in person, please provide alternative options, such as a phone call or Zoom video conference. You can also use Facetime, WhatsApp or other apps with the permission of the interviewee.
The interview will be semi-structured: Most questions are provided for you, but you also will ask follow-up questions after each of the required questions in order to gain a detailed understanding of your interviewee’s experiences. You also will write two formal (open-ended, not closed-ended) questions of your own. Be sure to craft question that allow you to have a deep and meaningful discussion about any historical, social, political, and/or economic factors that may have contributed to any prejudice/discrimination your interviewee has experienced. Write out your two original questions before conducting your interview.
Required Questions for Interview Option B:
Read these questions carefully before conducting your interview. Make sure you understand the substance of each question: you must be prepared to paraphrase each question and provide examples as needed in order to communicate effectively with your interviewee. Remember to ask follow-up questions as necessary.
- What are some of the ways in which institutional and structural processes and mechanisms of oppression (i.e., pertaining to race, ethnicity, culture, religion, gender, sexual-orientation, etc.) have operated/continue to operate as a means to perpetuate prejudice/discrimination in your life?
- Please describe the range of experiences/thoughts/emotions/feeling.
- How and in what ways have these experiences affected you/shaped your life?
- For example: your interactions with people, your mental/psychological health, etc.
- How have you learned to cope with/navigate such experiences?;
- Is there anything you would like to share/ others to know that we have not discussed here?
Presentation
After you have conducted your interview, you will create a slide-based presentation and present to the class (not live, but you will present through Canvas using the audio or video recording feature). You may use any platform of preference, such as PowerPoint, Google Slides, Canva, Prezi, etc. You will also provide a narrated presentation to accompany the slide-based presentation.
Essentially, you will review each of the slides and share about your process. You can also create a video and upload that to Canvas. Your presentation can range from 10 to 15 minutes (no longer than 15 minutes). Feel free to use other tools outside of the ones I have offered. You can be creative and use whatever platform you feel comfortable with and that of which you have access that will not serve as a barrier to you completing the assignment.
Of course, if there are circumstances that you feel would prevent you from engaging with/completing the narrated component, such as unreliable access to technology and/or if you are Deaf and/or disability-identified, please reach out to me to negotiate an alternative approach). I do not want to present any additional barriers or challenges to any of my students that might interrupt/disrupt their learning/success in this class.
Please do not feel as if you are a burden, or asking for an accommodation – education should be accessible to and inclusive of everyone. So please let me know how I can support your success in my class.
Your presentation must include/address the following parts (I – IV):
I. The person you interviewed: Please do NOT include the name of your interviewee in your assignment (you may use a pseudonym). Provide a description/demographic information of the individual you interviewed while keeping their identity confidential unless your interviewee gave you written permission to share their identity. In other words, describe their race, ethnicity, age, gender, education, occupation, etc. and their relationship to you. Why did you choose this person in particular?
II. Background and Context: Setting, method, and process: Describe the time, location, and environment in which the interview occurred. Please also describe the content of the interview, i.e. questions and responses (you can do this in a summary narrative format or in a question/response format). Describe the process/methods of the interview and note any important observations (for example, non-verbal behavior exhibited by the interviewee, how you built trust/rapport, etc.).
III. Reflection: Relate the information you gained from the interview to your own experience as well as to the material we have covered in the course so far.
Answer these four questions in detail in your presentation as part of your reflection:
(1) Using at least two course concepts and theories, how would you interpret this interview? What have you learned about the role of culture in human cognition, emotion, and behavior? (Make sure you include citations for the concepts/theories you use.)
(2) Thinking about the overall experience of having conducted this interview, what have you learned personally? Which of your interviewee’s responses do you find most significant, and why?
(3) Please also discuss subjectivity and bias and any factors that might influence your findings and your own interpretation of the information. How do your personal experiences, biases, beliefs, assumptions, and values shape and influence how you received, perceived, and interpreted the information being presented to you?
(4) What are some “lessons learned” from this experience and process? Is there anything you would have done differently? If so, why?
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