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Pursuing My Academic Goals As A Latina/X First Generation College Student

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Having the opportunity to pursue my academic goals as a Latina/e/x First Generation College Student through a study abroad program, that is, the Environmental Design in Oxford in Oxford, England, United Kingdom, will improve my acceptance of future opportunities that I wouldn’t have considered until now. In my personal and academic history, I grew up with both my parents having elementary and middle school education. My life has involved focusing on achieving what my parents couldn’t, and I still do. Now, I want to switch my focus to the academic goals I want to achieve. I want to complete my Planning, Public Policy, and Management degree and alongside do my Clark Honors College thesis surrounding my minor in Latinx Studies and/or Political …show more content…

The course ENVD 388 – THE LEADER IN YOU: Environments of Revolutionary Imagination sounds like the best course to almost complete my Colloquium requirements for my Clark Honors College degree, and taking an Arts and Letters Colloquium is the best course to keep me connected, intellectually curious, ethically motivated, and be a better self-learner because I am most interested in those topics. Especially since the program allows the students to choose something to research and map, a process that is specific to their career pathway. The experience allows the students to research and find an individual who will be our “Exemplar” and who will surround our final project. As I come to a close to my undergraduate studies at the University of Oregon, I will develop a Thesis for the Clark Honors College, and the research I complete in Oxford, can help develop the topic that I am focusing on and why it's important to have diverse Latinx stories at UO documented and archived; to show that a Latinx Cultural Center is needed in a Predominately White Institution that has a growing Hispanic and Latinx student population. My Exemplar can be surrounding cultural centers in Oxford, England, United Kingdom, or those individuals who developed them, so it can be a basis for what a Latinx Cultural Center can become for the UO Latinx student population. There is an opportunity to develop my perspectives and knowledge so I can visualize it for our community at the

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