Overview
Assignment: Virtual Field Trip Reflection Paper
The Signature Assignment for our course involves taking a virtual "field trip." You will visit one of the websites listed below. Treat the virtual field trip just as if you were taking a trip to the museum in person. Wander through
the website by clicking on the different tabs and reading the material, looking at photos, and even viewing videos if they have them. Then, you should record your reaction to the field trip with a series of written responses to the topics and questions listed below.
Focus on the ways in which you can develop critical perspectives that address the topics based on your own unique experiences of the online exhibit, using various concepts and ideas that you have learned in this course related to diversity and cultural pluralism.
Field Trip Locations
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: Center for the Prevention of Genocide: http://www.ushmm.org/genocide
National Museum of the American Indian http://www.nmai.si.edu/
National Museum of African American History and Culture https://nmaahc.si.edu/
The Smithsonian Latino Center: http://latino.si.edu
Requirements
Answer the questions completely in paragraph format, following APA style guidelines. Most submissions that follow the guidelines and instructions below will be approximately 2,000 words in length.
You must include a reference list, appropriately citing the source of your information (the specific online location of the site/exhibit/museum visited), as well as any additional sources you may choose to use. It is not necessary to provide formal in-text citations for this assignment; however, the reference page citations MUST follow APA style guidelines (6th edition). https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/05/
Create a separate heading in your essay for each of the five required topics/questions below.
Topics
TOPIC 1: Overview
Give a general description of your field trip experience, providing examples from the site/exhibit/museum.
TOPIC 2: Cultural Diversity
What did this place tell you about cultural diversity? Consider all of the aspects of the exhibition and relate them to the context of the issues we have discussed and studied in our course. How does the focus and purpose of the site/exhibit "fit" within the various subjects and issues we have considered in our course?
TOPIC 3: New Ideas
What did you learn that you did not know before your visit? Give specific examples of historical events, contemporary situations, cultural practices, or community issues that formed new knowledge for you. Make sure to be detailed in your answer. Consider how the site/exhibit/museum uses cultural, political, and historical contexts to present its issues and purposes.
TOPIC 4: Perspective
Did the visit change your feelings and perceptions in any way? Did your excursion on this virtual field trip serve as an opportunity to develop a tolerant perspective that you might apply in the future to different, diverse, and/or pluralistic cultures?
TOPIC 5: Evaluation
Would you recommend this place to other students? Explain why. Reflect on the value of this site/exhibit/museum. If you were to introduce this site to a friend or another student, what issues would you recommend that he or she should think about while viewing the site/exhibit/museum? What parts of the site in particular would you recommend for careful consideration? Provide detailed examples and reasons to support your evaluation.