Instructor interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Indo-Pacific Languages, clip 2 of 16

This item includes a segment of an instructor interview in a Writing Intensive course in Indo-Pacific Languages at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. The interview was conducted in 2013, and in this clip the interviewee is responding to the question 'What motivated you to design writing assignments with a place-based component?'Brief excerpt from interview: [I was inspired by] the vision of people like [Albert] Wendt, in giving voice to the islanders, to add their own representations to the mix. Because we grew up learning literature without a great sense of place, in all my writing assignments [students] must have the author in mind: what was happening at that time in Samoa and wherever the book is set? Then I fill in that background, so all my courses are interdisciplinary in nature: geography, history, and that history for me is so critical