🌍 Outreach & Community Feedback Assignment
🎯 Objective
After completing your interview and participant observation fieldnote and analysis, you will share your work with people outside our class and collect their feedback. (I have attached my interview and POF below) (you can actually share the work with 5 people or make up text messages, email chains etc.)
This assignment supports the course’s global engagement goal by connecting sociological concepts to real communities. You will practice engaging with local, global, international, and intercultural perspectives on the issues we study.
🧭 What You Will Do (Overview)
✔ Share your project with people outside our class ✔ Collect feedback from at least 5 community members ✔ Reflect on that feedback using 3 course readings ✔ Submit proof of outreach, a written reflection, and a bibliography
You will submit all of this as one package. Please try to use as few documents as possible. It is best to include everything into one document
🎥 Where This Assignment Is Explained
▶ https://fiu.zoom.us/rec/play/kBI1cRm3DVeEP4hg_YxXl...
Access Passcode: #v1&HDzu
▶ https://fiu.zoom.us/rec/play/WgDf1L-q_delhZLuigexV...
Access Passcode: F+Tj??%2
📌 You should watch these recordings before completing the assignment.
📂 What You Must Submit
🧾 1. Proof of Outreach (Required)
You must show evidence that you shared your work and received feedback from at least 5 people (per student or per group member).
Acceptable proof includes: 📸 Screenshots of text messages or group chats 🎧 Audio recordings 🎥 Video recordings of short (“mini”) interviews
You should share your interview and participant observation fieldnote and analysis with these participants.
💬 2. Required Questions for Community Members
Ask each participant the following:
🔹 1. Connection to Themes How can they relate to the themes in your project, or what experiences do they have that connect to them?
🔹 2. Engagement with Your Work
Have them:
- Answer at least one question from your interview assignment OR
- Respond to a specific scene, quote, or moment from your fieldnote
🔹 3. Suggestions & Critique What do they think you should add, rethink, or explore more deeply? What might you have overlooked?
✍️ 3. Reflection & Analysis
📏 Minimum: 500 words per student
Your reflection should: 📘 Analyze the outreach feedback you received 📗 Connect that feedback to at least 3 course readings or films 🧠 Reflect on how community perspectives shaped or challenged your thinking
🧩 Recommended Structure for the Reflection
🧠 Discussion / Reflection / Conclusion
🔹 Select at least three responses from your outreach 🔹 Group them into three themes or patterns
For each theme, include: 🗣️ A quote or specific moment from your interview or fieldnote 📖 A quote from a course reading or film ✏️ Your own explanation and analysis of the connection
Be sure to address: ⭐ What participants connected with most 🔄 How outreach feedback related to course themes 🛠️ What you would improve if you did the project again
📚 4. Bibliography
📌 Minimum of 3 sources 📌 Must come from course readings 📌 Provide FULL citations in ASA (American Sociological Association) style