Instructor interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Journalism, clip 7 of 10

This item includes a segment of an instructor interview in a Writing Intensive course in Journalism at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. The interview was conducted in 2013, and in this clip the interviewee is responding to the question 'Why do you think it is important that students in your classes engage with our place(s) through writing?'Brief excerpt from interview: In fiction... Joyce's Ireland... is a very distinctive understanding of place . . . A better understanding of where they live . . . puts them in contact with people they would not have otherwise met . . . Our program, our show, what we do is related to this place . . . Nowhere else, I think, in America would you be going to Kawai High to do a story about the . . . community of Native Hawaiians . . . Doing the stories gives the students some sense of not only the place, but it's a Hawaiian place that these people feel strongly about