Wedad Mourtada, Week 11 Blog Post

This course made me see the world through different lenses without even realizing it. At first, I’d think about the deeper meaning behind things because I just always wanted to know more. However, as I’m working on my analysis, I’m aware of the many ways I can view people, places, and situations. I also became more aware of my own thinking process. After completing my literacy narrative, I learned so much about my own thought process and how it shaped me into the person I am. This was the most interesting thing to me because, in anthropology, we’re talking about metacognition; making a connection between this course and anthropology helped me understand the different thought processes of different people. Also, this course helped me appreciate people more. After reading different literacy narratives, and my classmates writing responses, I learned that everyone has their own way of thinking and it made me realize how many different cultures there are. This is similar to my anthropology class because all we talk about is culture. Anthropology is the study of humans in all places at all times, and as I read some literacy narratives in this course, I learned so much about people and realized how different people are but also that we’re all connected in some ways.