This personal narrative must include a statement about why you are an interdisciplinary studies major, as well as why you have selected the emphasis areas that you have chosen as part on your degree program.
You should be able to write about what your (academic) interests are and how they can be integrated and related to your career goals. Your essay should also include the following:
· Your thoughts on where you are coming from,
· Where you would like to go, and
· WHY you would like to get to where it is you think you would like to go.
It also must include comprehensively the following:
· How you developed your intellectual interests,
· (in other words) Why you chose your two concentration areas
· What interdisciplinary topics/problems you are interested in pursuing
· How you would like to integrate them (for what purpose/s).
NOTE: Comprehensive discussion means a thorough discussion—at least one paragraph for each above item, including your discussion of each concentration area. You should devote at least one paragraph discussion why you chose concentration #1, and at least one other paragraph to discuss why you chose concentration #2. If you have a double concentration, you need to devote at least two paragraphs explaining why you chose the double concentration.
In other words, discuss how you got to where you are today as an interdisciplinary studies major at Norfolk State University. What makes you? In other words, what forces and circumstances have shaped your personal identity as well as your identity as a student?
The essay should be 4 typed (word-processed) double-spaced pages minimum. Less than 4 pages (not 3 1/2 or even 3 and three quarter pages!) will not be accepted. You will NOT be graded on your life but on how skillful, thoughtful, insightful, and reflective your writing is. Your identity as an interdisciplinarian is formed by the narrative(s) you construct, so please take the time to do this assignment well. Your essay should be written in formal Standard English.
* Assignment adapted from Dr. Tanya Augsburg.
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