WElcome

One’s college years have long been known as a time for development of one’s character and beliefs, and nowhere is that tested more than in the first weeks and months of a student’s enrollment. By selecting coursework from these early beginnings up until now, four semesters into this experience, a clear throughline can be seen. The work produced through the Honors Civilization sequence functions as a particularly insightful viewpoint into the development of both my interests and my approach to processes such interests. For me, that meant coming into my own as an artist within the professional world, and how I am and was able to adapt these skills to suit more practical assignments. It meant learning more about my self-identity as a woman and as a queer woman and how my perceptions of love have changed, especially in relation to my religious upbringing. It meant adapting every struggle and task I was given to somehow fit the questions I have concerning these areas. What does it mean to love another? How has religion changed my understanding of the world? What does it mean to be queer now, as well as in the past? How can art be used to explain and cope with all these changes? The work I have done throughout the Civilizations sequence has provided a space in which I could explore these questions, and in turn, created a more vivid, personal experience for me to reflect on.