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In the spring of 2020, students in Writing as Critical Inquiry: Identity, Experience, and Coming of Age explored burning questions about transitioning to adulthood in our increasingly global society. Some explored enduring topics, such as shifting relationships with parents or racial and gender identity development, while others focused on more novel questions, such as what roles technology and social media play in modern coming of age. Yet others engaged in inquiries around the extraordinarily pressing topic of COVID-19 and the its potential effect on the way today's young people—including the writers themselves—will emerge as adults. They sought to understand how personal experiences and connections with their topics illuminated—and were illuminated by—the primary and secondary research they conducted.
This website comprises the class's multimodal articles, the product of their inquiries. Expanding our notion of writing to include not only traditional prose, but also visual, audio, or spatial means of creating meaning, the students embraced this format as a way to share their work with authentic audiences (including one another) across time and space.
How do societal and cultural norms about gender and dis/ability impact self-esteem?
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In a matter of days, Pictionary became skribbl.io, NYU Kimmel turned into NYU Zoom, Netflix n Chill became Netflix Party, and the little voice inside of me screamed, "Buckle up. It's Corona Time!"
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In an ironic twist of fate, is this the world Generation Z has always dreamt of?
How will the COVID-19 pandemic shape the way emerging adults come of age?
Growing Up Multiracial in a Black and White World
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We're seeing a lot more Asian eyes on the big screen. Has the representation of Asians in Western film come as far as it seems?
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A constant identity crisis makes growing up harder than ever before.
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What role does racial representation play, if at all, in shaping the adults we become?
Can obliterating the taboo around talking honestly sex-talk help obliterate the over-sexualization of young women of color?
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What happens when you don't know where home is? A third-culture kid's experience with cultural identity.
What does everyone have against fangirls?
A Gen Z approach to coming-of-age in the twenty-first century.
The coming-of-age film genre has long been popular. Has the genre evolved beyond the standard American tropes?
Latinx character diversity (or lack thereof) in American literature and film.
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Queer coming-of-age films inspire exploration of the relationship between queer youth, love, and age disparities.
by Cammie Kim Lin
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