{"id":19,"date":"2025-10-02T18:45:29","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T18:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/creativeportfolio.org\/abbeyfoley\/?p=19"},"modified":"2025-11-06T20:39:54","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T20:39:54","slug":"reflections-on-a-global-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/creativeportfolio.org\/abbeyfoley\/reflections-on-a-global-journey\/","title":{"rendered":"My Global Journey"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A unique feature at Agnes Scott College is its Global Journeys: a course in the second semester of the first year that focuses on a particular place and includes a week (Peak Week) of travel on a faculty-led trip to your destination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Each course covers four themes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Globalization and its consequences<\/strong>
Our class primarily focused on the effects of globalization on economics and culture.
\u2022 The concepts of identity, self, and \u2018the other\u2019<\/strong>
We analyzed several texts that discussed how the perception of one’s identity can change with age, new experiences, and new surroundings.
\u2022 Imperialism, colonialism, and diaspora<\/strong>
A striking example of how imperialism affected our country of focus was in the fact that Costa Rica has no military, partially because of its few and small borders, and partially because of U.S. military dominance in the American continents… \u2022 The ethics of travel<\/strong>
Depending on how and where we travel, we may or may not consider ourselves “tourists”. Is tourism always beneficial to a country? How so? What are the potential harms of tourism and travel? Jamaica Kincaid’s \ud835\ude08 \ud835\ude1a\ud835\ude2e\ud835\ude22\ud835\ude2d\ud835\ude2d \ud835\ude17\ud835\ude2d\ud835\ude22\ud835\ude24\ud835\ude26 details the ignorance and carelessness that tourists knowingly embody for the sake of their leisure, and how harmful these attitudes and this industry are to the well-being of the people whose home is in a popular vacation spot like Antigua. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I went on my global journey in March of 2025 to various locations in Costa Rica, such as San Jose, the Centro Agron\u00f3mico Tropical de Investigaci\u00f3n y Ense\u00f1anza (CATIE), and Lima. We focused on topics of sustainability, conservation, colonialism and imperialism, Pure Vida, and eco-tourism. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Writings from my Global Journey class and trip:<\/p>\n\n\n\n