Hello!
I’m Ali, a third-year student studying women and gender studies. After majoring in microbiology and immunology for a while, I switched to women and gender studies because I was fascinated by how much I could apply what I learned daily and how it changed how I viewed the world. I was previously a science major, where I completed my prerequisites for veterinary medicine. This is the field I am passionate about, and I hope to be accepted into the Western College of Veterinary Medicine in the near future. Therefore, I hope to apply what I learn here and apply it into my daily life and future career. I think these are important lessons everyone should learn, especially if they work in a field requiring frequent public interaction.
My goal for this course is that I would like to improve my critical thinking skills so that I can evaluate what I read more effectively. I’ve always struggled with academic papers, especially when they’re about subjects I am not interested in or can’t relate to. I am captivated by intersectionality, gender, race, and class studies and how they all intersect. I hope this course will help me improve my ability to analyze the articles we’ve been assigned critically. Then I’ll hopefully e able to apply what I have learned here to previous and future papers.