Jonghyeok Byeon
1. BYEON JONGHYEOK, AUTUMN 2021. BISAES 367. “FINAL ANALYSIS/ REFLECTION.”
This is a short essay that explores the key issues with immigration policy, especially about Military Accessions to the Vital National Interest (MAVNI) program. The author of this essay examines the pros and cons of the MAVNI program by mentioning his experience.
This essay represents the key issues in the history of U.S. immigration policy and contemporary questions about American identity, policy, and social justice through the prism of race and ethnicity. This essay is significant to me because it reminds me of my struggles to adapt to a new life in the States and also it develops my knowledge about the history of U.S immigration policy.
2. BYEON JONGHYEOK, AUTUMN 2021. BIS 340. “FINAL RESEARCH PROPOSAL, GENTRIFICATION.”
This is about 8 pages research proposal essay about gentrification. It examines the issues with gentrification and how to maximize the happiness for greater people and minimize the loss for them by gentrification. Also, this research proposal essay explores how cultural analysis can help people to understand the complex social and political dimensions of contemporary life.
This research proposal is important because it not only analyzes how cultural, economic, and political interest are produced but also critically evaluate the different understandings of the production and consumption of culture. Furthermore, my research proposal questions how much of what we encounter in our daily lives is culturally shaped and constituted with the topic of gentrification.
3. BYEON JONGHYEOK, AUTUMN 2020. BIS300. “GUN VIOLENCE ACTIVISM (PILOT RESEARCH PAPER).”
This 8-page research paper examines the violation of the gun. It articulates the questions about gun violence activism and contains a solid discussion of what would be the next step for gun violence activism.
This research paper is significant because it helped me how to recognize interdisciplinary knowledge production and the ways it underwrites different aspects of the IAS program, demonstrates critical thinking and reading skills, collaborates with others, and displays a basic understanding of what activism is.
4. BYEON JONGHYEOK, SPRING 2021. BIS 356. “HABITAT DESTRUCTION.”
This is a group project that analyzes the ethical dimensions and debates around the environmental issue of habitat destruction. The authors of this group project focus on the habitat destructions in coral reefs, the Amazon, Arctic sea ice, and the desert.
This is my very first group project that examines the basic principles and concepts in environmental ethics, especially about habitat destruction. This project is significant because it not only delivers the philosophical perspective to specific controversies and debates but also it helps to recognize the ethical problems with western binaries, for instance, nature/culture, emotion/reason, animal/human, subject/object, etc.
5. BYEON JONGHYEOK, WINTER 2021. BIS 312. “PART 1: CONDUCTING AN INTERVIEW, PART 2: PERSONAL REFLECTION ESSAY.”
These two parts of the assignment contain an interview and the author’s reflection essay about ideas and reflections on the world around the author. The interview is about the author’s grandfather’s life story who was a rich family boy but became an honorable Korean War veteran. Part 2 is about how COVID-19 changed the author’s life and perspective on wearing a mask.
These two of the works are important for several reasons. First, conducting an interview was my very first experience, and realized that interview was a very important research tool across disciplines for my future education skill. Second, the personal reflection essay about current issues with COVID-19 has shaped me to gain an ability to tackle a particular social science issue and design a scientific research proposal around it. Furthermore, it highlighted my critical thinking and analytical abilities through a particular social issue.
6. BYEON JONGHYEOK, AUTUMN 2021. BIS 232. “PORTFOLIO, INTRODUCTION AND REFLECTION.”
This is a mini-portfolio that contains major assignments from class BIS 232. This mini-portfolio is intended to have skills in collaboration, shared leadership, critical and creative thinking, diversity and equity, interdisciplinary research, and inquiry, and writing and communication.
This portfolio is important because by making this portfolio, I decided to pursue my career as a data analyst. This portfolio contains visual representations using Tableau, Gapminder Animation, and Du Bois Analysis. This artifact helped me to identify the different types of data and their constraints, how to relate different types of data to appropriate visualizations, how to manipulate, organize and clean the data using simple manipulations such as program language R.
7. BYEON JONGHYEOK, AUTUMN 2020. BHS 201. “RATE OF DUI IN KING COUNTY,”
This is a short essay that employs the rate of DUI in King County, Washington. The author of this essay describes the evidence-based approaches to public health with the use of epidemiologic evidence to guide public health issues. The paper specifically portrays the impact of public health policy on daily life and describes frameworks and methods used to develop effective DUI interventions.
This essay is significant because it arouses attention to the people that how driving under the influence can destroy uncountable people’s lives. Furthermore, this paper was my first evidence-based paper that examines the problem of DUI in King County, Washington, and the danger of it. It is also a work in that I combine the concept of interdisciplinary into public health.
8. BYEON JONGHYEOK, WINTER 2021. BIS265. “RESPONSE/ REFLECTION PAPER, PIONEERS FROM ASIA.”
This essay explores the history of Asian immigrants in the States from a book, A Different Mirror. Also, it not only examines the key discourses on race, ethnicity, multiculturalism, colorblindness, diversity, and culture, among others but also examines how racial categories and ideologies have been formed and contested within the U.S historical and political context.
This artifact is significant because it highlighted the first generation of Asian Immigrants. Since I am an Asian immigrant as well, this work is something that I always have been curious about. By reading and researching, I was able to develop critical and comparative historical and analytical skills. Also, I gained a basic historical understanding of U.S. discourses on race, ethnicity, multiculturalism, and diversity.