Survival Is A Must: Introductory Post (Week 0)
Nadia w -
Hello! I am Nadia W and I am a senior at BASIS Flagstaff. I will be attending Arizona State University for nursing. I hope to do a study abroad program in South Korea at some point in my education so that I can later decide whether or not to become a travelling nurse over there. I’ve been interested in Korean culture for a few years now, and it fascinated me enough that I looked into its literature, and then its history. There are a lot of things that we were never actually taught in our history classes, at least in the Korean people’s perspectives. I eventually stumbled upon poetry – poetry by female authors specifically – and it was rather eye-opening.
My project is about Korean women and the poetry they’ve written. I will be looking at how the themes, literary devices, and content itself has changed over time. I will be focusing on three time periods that were paramount to the development of literature in Korea: the Joseon (pronounced Jo-suhn) dynasty, the Japanese Colonization of Korea, and the Korean War. Alongside all of this, I will be creating my own poetry based off of everything I find in the women’s works, attempting to replicate the styles and such that the poetesses used.
As for my internship, I will be doing it with Mrs. Knappenberger, an English teacher I have known since 5th grade. She currently teaches English and is my first external advisor. I will be meeting with her during her lunch period once a week to go over my progress, and then eventually teach a unit to her classes on Sijo poetry. Sijo is a form of Korean poetry that was commonly used from the Joseon period up to present-day. It’s quite like the Japanese Haiku; it has three lines, each containing 14-16 syllables, and a total syllable count of 44-46.
The other part of my internship is meeting my second external advisor, Ms. Kim, once a week for an hour to go over the technical aspects of my project (including what or who to focus on). Ms. Kim is a master’s student under Dr. Kang, who teaches in the literature department of NAU (Northern Arizona University, https://nau.edu/ ), and is studying English literature. She used to teach English in Korea, so she will be great for any translation difficulties I might face. We’ve been meeting, and in each meeting she goes over what I’ve accomplished and found and gives me a structured assignment to complete by the next meeting, where we do the same thing again. It’s incredibly helpful and allows me to make organized progress that I understand on my project.
Earlier this year, those of us participating in senior projects were expected to write a proposal to see if our projects had potential and to see what exactly we wanted to accomplish. Here is mine: Senior Project Proposal.
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