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Arabic Culture (Arabic 330)
Guidelines for Interview Project (10% of final grade), a written report on an interview conducted with someone who identifies as an Arab/ from an Arabic-speaking country.
Due: Monday June 24 – via Canvas.
Formatting: 2 pages, double-spaced, using Times New Roman 12 pt. font, 1 inch margins on all
sides.
Students will need to interview someone who identifies as an Arab/ from an Arabic-speaking country. The interviews can be conducted in person, by phone or online. The interviewee might be a family member or a student from SDSU. Do not record your interview. Instead, try to take brief notes during the conversation (you will need to ask for your interviewee’s permission). You will use a pseudonym to protect the identity of the interview participant. The general topic of your interview is the person’s experience of Arabic culture and language(s), e.g. an oral history of their experience in an Arabic-speaking context, or any other Arabic cultural topic that interests you. You may link your topic for the interview to what you plan to pursue for your final project. General questions to consider would be:
what culture(s) they identify with?
similarities or difference between the Arabic culture and American culture (with regardsto a certain topic)
the possibility of conserving their culture in the US (changes, if any)
what languages (language varieties) they used at various stages of their life
the attitudes towards languages (e.g. Classical Arabic, Modern Standard Arabic, andColloquial Arabic)
the attitudes that they and others had/have toward a cultural topic/language
the various domains in which they speak various languages and whether that is typical forsomeone of their age/ethnicity/class/educational background/etc.The goal of the interview is twofold: 1) to practice interviewing so you can see if/how interviewing might be one of the methods you employ in research. 2) to gain information about a topic that you can include in your final project (i.e. conduct preliminary research).Your interview should take about 20 minutes. As soon as possible afterwards, write down your field notes noting when the interview took place and anything else relevant. You should create a typed log that indicates a timed summary of the topics covered in the interview. For example:0:00 introductions
0:05 family background
0:10 significant cultural story/notesYour write up should take the form of an essay that summarizes the interview and contextualizes it in terms of a specific theme. You will submit the essay (you do not need to submit the interview questions). I recommend the following format:
Introduction (1 paragraph): Begin with the context of your interview (based on your field notes), why you selected this person, and give an overall summary of the topics covered in the interview (e.g. select the ones that were the most important).
Body: Then spend 2 paragraphs on a specific topic, explaining what you learned, how it relates to your research and our readings and discussion, and quoting where relevant. All quotations should be analyzed and commented upon. While you might not address cultural issues directly in your interview questions, you should use what you have learned so far about Arabic culture to contextualize your interview data.
Conclusion: (1 paragraph) What have you learned overall from the experience and what do you want the reader of your essay to have learned from reading your essay? What questions/gaps remain and how do you hope to address them?
Appendices: If you refer to secondary sources, cite them appropriately in the text and include a list of works cited at the end (not included in the page count).
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