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Although South Korea’s extensive response to COVID-19 (such as contact tracing) has received praise from the world, it has also ruined businesses in the country. Contact tracing in South Korea has been very strict and thorough–all of the information accessible by the mass public. South Korean media also uses these public information to cover provocative … Read more

My engaged project is about apartment guards working in South Korea, with a general focus on their day to day work and lives. My research strategy included an interview with the apartment manager at my apartment complex as well as extensive research on the background of apartment guard work in South Korea. My final project, … Read more

The topic of my Engaged Project focuses on U.S. work culture, how it affects people, and what people could do in order to resist or minimize those effects. I researched labor force history, the physical and mental effects of U.S. work culture on people, and mutual aid/the importance of rest. My final project was to … Read more

Since 2005, every 5 years Wesleyan University has assisted the Middlesex Coalition for Children (MCC) with their Middletown child hunger survey. The Middlesex Coalition for Children’s mission is to improve the lives of children growing up in Middletown and Middlesex County. In December 2020, students in the QAC381 service-learning course conducted the quantitative survey, and … Read more

My Engaged Project explores the connection between memory and storytelling. As a writer, I have always struggled to reconcile my memory  with my imagination. While the two seem to be at odds, with memory as the objective truth and imagination as fluid creation, the distinction isn’t so black and white. Memory is imperfect for all … Read more

For my Engaged Project, I wrote an article discussing the role of the mind-body connection in building resilience from trauma. I specifically focus on how the mind-body connection is achieved through dance and intentional movement, using my own experience as an example. I also address the need for increased research regarding the efficacy of dance … Read more

My project focuses on the linguistics used regularly in social justice. Similarly to any language, there are specific key terms in social justice that represent differing identities. I chose three key terms, which were all connected by the letter “x.” Those three terms were “LatinX,” “Womxn,” and “Folx.” These terms have all fascinating histories dating … Read more

A research project focusing on expanding the boundaries of what it means to teach dance to children and young adults in the form of a 30-minute educational video log. The video log discusses the constraints of the traditional dance education system and suggests new and reformed ways of approaching dance pedagogy. Sponsor: Anna Greenidge, performing artist … Read more

My Engaged Project aimed to analyze the impact that pandemics and educational disruptions have had on the United States educational system and propose practices that could be improved upon and added for future pandemics. I conducted my research by first examining differing padenmics within the education field and decided to further investigate the 1918 Spanish … Read more

The purpose of this project was to assess whether families in Middletown have been hungrier due to the start of the pandemic. We wanted qualitative stories to add value and description to the quantitative data already collected. We did this by holding focus groups with parents who filled out a survey earlier in the year. … Read more