Syllabus: Course Analysis

This essay will explain how I have learned and met the course objectives from the syllabus. For starters I will explain have I have improved on all the aspect of my work and the things that I need to work on. Nevertheless, I will then address the games played in the class and talked about if they met the course objectives or not. Last, I will address what competing factors helped shaped the roles of diversity of social identity in the United States and how they have tied into the concepts of justice, liberty and equality.  
My work in the class has improved a great deal in the class I should have put more effort in the readings because I didn’t know what some of the things that were being talked about because I skimmed the readings briefly, I should have better time management this 19 credits classes really kicked my butt. The discussion part was hard for me to

understand at times but when professor Ravnikar broke it down I understood it a hole lot better, My game participation have improved a crazy amount I used to not give a lot of input towards the games but now I give all the input I can.

The games had me feel compelling feelings towards the subject at hand I believed by this it helps you communicate better and really makes you participate so you can get have a say in what's happening. I have always been good with the teamwork aspect, I have improved on the teamwork a great deal.  For an example, I didn’t really know what was going on in the trail of Anne Hutchinson. Later on the other games I started to pick up on what was happening and I started to give input. My team had some problems but we worked passed that and are good and got done what we had to get done. The feedback from teammates have helped me a great deal I went back and looked at what they said and took it and

changed it. After, I got my evolutions back from our last games I have happy to know classmates gave me a 4 on almost everything. I believe working in groups with people helped me to understand the truth about certain things and helped me to see the different background and values each members have. Each games had major things going on and it was up to us as a group to get what we needed passed to get passed. I feel like with all this is helped everyone better understand everyday issues and the difference  in the social identities.  

Reacting to the past games did a great job of addressing the course objectives. The trial of Anne Hutchison showed the diversity within the Colonies them self. Which is like today and the diversity within the United States, The trial of Anne Hutchison also did a great job on having different prospective on the diversity. For an example there were different factions one pro Anne that was trying to show you that there was nothing wrong with what Anne did and a anti Anne faction that was  showing Anne was bad and did do something wrong. Nevertheless, The trail of  Anne Hutchison also showed different prospective with the different factions. The Civil rights game showed kind of what's going on today in a sense by the discrimination of  the black culture and how they are treated. Being a poly science major I thought I knew a lot about those sort of errs but I didn’t know half of what I learned from that game, I never thought I would hear arguments for slavery and believe able ones at that all the games really opened up my eyes as to how different everyone else is and how a lot of people have conflicting beliefs. I feel all these games reach the class objectives, I learned from the into to the game almost all the answers that’s how well these games were made and put together. 

Finally, I'll address what competing factors helped shaped the roles of diversity of social identity in the United States and how they have tied into the concepts of justice, liberty and equality. I think what kids are learning and where they are at is what shaping the role of diversity in the United States. When I was in grade school in Zion IL, the stuff we learned was different then what I learned when I came out here. The school I went to in Zion was all African American I was one of the few white kids. When we talked about slavery out there we got the side of the black slaves because that the culture of the school. Once I came to Wisconsin what we learned because of being in an all white school was more along the line of the south and north and plantation owners and barley talked about the slaves side. I love the diversity in schools I think schools should be diverse I hated my high school because we didn’t have people from all different backgrounds. I'm blessed to went to an all black school because it made me look at life in a different way. The not so diverse schools need to be teaching about black history month and needs to be talking about the things that the kids don’t want to learn because it will teach the kids not to be racist towards a curtain group because they will realize they are not that much different then them. I think the high school should do what colleges do is that they have to accept a curtain amount of minority's into the school. For the United States as a hole I think they need to dedicate one month for every culture and show them pride and let anyone that wants to participate, by doing this it will help everyone to understand every group of people and they might even find people with the same interests as they have.  

To conclude this class has helped me understand the diversity of the United States. When we first started to play the games I thought it was dumb and wasn’t going to relate to anything going on in real life now but after playing I understood that it all has to do with real life things. The Games met the objectives of the course and helped me better understand different sides to things and why people do why they do. After, playing the game I have a different prospective on people and their opinion thought history now I'm able to accept the fact that people are aloud to have different political opinions and I'm able to sensor out the facts. I'm glad this class is a required class to take so people who might not accept the differences will have to faces them as maybe a character they wouldn’t want to be.