Comparative Cultures – Final Reflection

Critical thinking and communication

This project was a focus on creation myths. I compared and contrasted Hawaiian and Māori myths to form this project as one can see in the image above. This assignment allowed me to showcase my communication skills through using notes to create a script which effectively communicated what I needed to showcase for the project in the small space given. I used critical thinking as I analyzed the two cultures to effectively communicate the information I had. I am proud that I was able to complete the assignment on time and showcase all the information needed on this comic. In the future I wish I had spent more time on the analysis piece as I was unsatisfied with the fact that I was unable to have a greater focus on perspectives and wish I had tied the effect of enculturation more into the analysis. This project was overall able to help me look at my analyzing and clear communication skills to asses information which allowed me to improve both these skills.

Core Competency Self-Assessment -Comparative Cultures

Positive personal and cultural identity

The picture above is of a project I completed on a residential school survivor Verna Miller. Completing this project allowed me to learn about others culture’s and learn about assimilation and enculturation further. Doing this project allowed me to think about my own perspective and background with culture. Through this project I also researched how residential school survivors are learning to practice their culture after it was once lost and how this impacted their communities through time.