CTZN 395

This is a recap of my unforgettable experience as a study “away” student! Brock Experiences at Longwood take place within the United States so they are not considered a study abroad. I chose to study away with Brock Experiences because of the uncertainty that a study abroad might be cancelled due to COVID-19. During the summer of 2022, I went on an 8-day trip to Alaska with 21 students and 5 faculty/staff members. Our course aimed to study the Trans-Alaska Oil Pipeline and its impact on wildlife, aquatic life, climate change, Alaskan Natives, and tourism within the state. Within our group of 22 students, we were split into smaller groups that focused on one of the 5 aforementioned topics. My assigned topic was wildlife, which I more closely looked at through a sociocultural lens. 

Attached below is my final paper for this course. This was hands-down the hardest paper that I have had to write in college because it had to be in the creative-writing genre. As a nursing major, I am only used to writing APA research and statistical papers. The prompt for this final paper was to pretend that I am an author of a novel about “blank” in Alaska and this is one of my chapters. The scene had to take place in Alaska, it had to be a creative historical-fiction story, and it could not be a research paper. That’s it. I had the liberty to choose what my novel would be about, what my chapter would be about, and how far along in my novel this chapter would take place. I chose to write in the third-person perspective about the life and views of a (mostly) fictional Alaskan Native National Park Ranger.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kW0U6D341l4a2avl5pJBPMzT1sArue48IIQM2DXkygQ/edit?usp=sharing