Asian American Reflection Paper

Before taking this Asian American class, I only knew that this class is an academic discipline about history, experience, culture, and policies relevant to Asian American. However, the professor, Stohler used interesting teaching style to talk about how this class relates to Asian American’s history, such as providing the PowerPoint and let every students discussing in the class or online. I found out that students could pay more attentions on this teaching style. Owing to this quarter almost ended, there are some reflections and ideas in my mind. In this paper will talk about that the most important and interesting thing I learned in the course; discuss about how relates to my lives and other courses; at last I will think about that my contribution

I really learned a lot from this class, such as the first time Chinese immigrants moved to the United States facing lots of racial discrimination, struggling but keeping their own cultures and identity, and eventually successful in some aspects and achieve the triumphs. Nevertheless, the most interesting thing I learned in this course in that professor Stohler posted lots of articles and videos assisted us to learn more about the transnational history of Chinese in the United States from the nineteenth century to the present. He also created the discussion forum to let all his students discuss important issue every week. I think he showed consideration to those students who are really shy to talk in class, just like me. I read so many articles he provided to us every week and I believed that it is a good way to give my own opinions and also comment to other students

At the beginning I was really afraid to express my opinion about my team project, but all my team members are really friendly and willing to listen to my opinions. I really had good time while doing this project, as a communicator in my group, I made Google doc to let every member give their own opinions and that is also a good method to discuss our project online. Moreover, I designed the PowerPoint and provided lots of pictures to make our project wonderful. For our presentation, even though I felt so nervous and could not speak well on my presentation, my team members are really nice and encourage me a lot. For the team paper, I divided into four parts to discuss more details about our main points of the topic; at first I thought that it would be difficult to do this part, yet one of my team members used interesting way, Rock-paper-scissors, it is a fair way to do it, and every members are willing to do this. In short, I really enjoyed doing this project and had great time with all of my team