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Week 2 Reflection

 1. I am very intrigued by the discussion in this week's reading about academic language and discipline as an exclusion practice. Are interdisciplinary studies a fallacy or fantasy? 

2. Graduate and post-graduate studies require us to pick a very specific area and become an expert in that area. Many of our graduate training requires us to be versed in specific research writing structures, theories, and schools of thought. As academia is historically dominated by Western, white elite men, how can we wrestle with this history, and challenge norms as graduate students and junior scholars as we progress and survive or even thrive in academia?

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