COMM 200 FINAL ASSIGNMENT:
Pathways of Heritage, Memory and Identity Through Interviews and Google Earth
50 pts.
Our heritage, memories, and identities consist of multi-layered histories and people involving numerous generations, locations, events, economies, and narratives. From the stories we have heard as a child to intergenerational research we find on the internet, important contextual information is embedded in our photos, social media profiles, oral histories, technology, traditions, and conversations. Digital media has become a way in documenting our lives as well as helping us to connect to memories and information about our heritage and identities. This final project is about your family history, identities (regional, familial, cultural, personal, religious, etc), communication, and interviewing people in your family to find as much information as possible about your family, culture(s), and history.
For this project you will interview people in your family or people who you consider to be your family, to find out information about locations and places where your family lived, migrated, and worked. Using qualitative ethnographic methods of interviews, artifacts, notes, observation, and Google Earth you will find the transnational pathways of your family and heritage based upon the communication and memories shared in the interviews of your families or people you are close to and consider your family. Apply appropriate the terminology and words we have used throughout the year from our readings and in-class discussions.
Paper with Images (50 pts.) Due:
This 5 – 8 page paper will discuss the interviews you had with your family, research, background research, results, findings, and conclusion.
1. Paper should be APA style, 12 pt. font, Times New Roman, double-spaced.
2. Images can be photos of people you interviewed, letters, documents, digital images from Google Earth of the places where your family once lived, or migrated from.
