Our first-year seminar students wrote various types of expository essays: persuasive debates, theoretical comparisons, and thematic analyses of twenty sophomore interviews. But we ended the semester with a first-person reflective essay that asked students to dig deep into a more personal question:
Has our Color & Money seminar — and your experiences as a first-semester student at Trinity — changed how you think about race and/or social class? If so, how has it changed, and why? Can you trace these changes back to specific moments in our seminar, or during the past three months at Trinity or in the Hartford area?
Furthermore, these reflective essays were written for the public web. Although each student has the option to use only their first names or to remove their essay from this site, those who have made their reflections public are listed below.
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