Student interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in American Studies, clip 10 of 15

This item includes a segment of a student interview in a Writing Intensive course in American Studies at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. The interview was conducted in 2013, and in this clip the interviewee is responding to the question 'As you anticipate life after graduation, what are your goals and aspirations? Do you see writing figuring into them?' ; Brief excerpt from interview: [I chose Pacific Island studies] because there are a lot of issues surrounding militarization or colonialism. That's kind of what I am interested in. I think after reading all of these materials from the class and you see how important [writing] is for indigenous communities to write their own stories and critique what's happening around them and how they are being portrayed. We read From a Native Daughter, which tells a completely different story than this. Everyone [in the class] found something that they could relate to whether they were from different sides of the table.