The year has finally come to an end and I am very thankful that I was given the opportunity to blog for the Arts Studies course. Three or four years from now, if I look back to my first-year, I would clearly remember writing a blogpost is something what I enjoyed (I know it sounds cheesy, but I gave some serious thought about this). The reason being that since I did not participate much in class, at least through blogging I was able to contribute my voice to the on-going discussion.

The importance of the blogging activity was something the professor wanted us to do at the beginning of the year (I remember myself not being happy about this). However, now that I realize how important it is to be consistent with keeping up with weekly topics and continuously reminding myself what we have learnt, it forces us to think  flexibly and naturally apply concepts learnt from an academic setting to the real world. We unconsciously find connections between themes/ concepts/ ideas from different courses, which will help us succeed in our later lives. In addition, reading my colleagues’ blogposts are a great learning tool as see different perspectives from multi-dimensional angles.

This blogosphere particularly worked very well in our CAP stream because we had the chance to share and hear voices of individuals whom we often don’t hear from either in class or in person. Hence, this space established a colorful tone of language and voice to share our thoughts and also re-think of what it is to be a “Global Citizen”.

As a student of the Global Citizens stream, in my future, I would still think about the three different perspectives (joint lecture): ASTU (social memory, collective memory), SOCI perspective (social inequality, institutions, structures, conflicts, symbolic interaction) and GEOG perspective (globalization, modernization) when thinking about a particular social issue.

Thank you to the professors and fellow colleagues for a wonderful CAP 2013-4 year!