Goal: Identify a topic for your culture project and your learning goals for your topic.
For my cultural project, I would like to explore the influence of poverty on health in India. This topic is very interesting to me, as it integrates my major interests in social justice, health, and India. I will briefly discuss the caste system, because it is very complex for a beginning Hindi student, so I will focus more on the broader issue of how poverty is correlated with ill health in India. I will talk about private hospitals, government hospitals, and the experience of "visiting the doctor" in rural/urban India (and how a poor person might be treated differently because of caste), as well as some of the major diseases associated with living in a low-resource setting. I will utilize my experiences in India to talk about this issues, but I hope to expand upon these experiences by: learning new vocabulary related to health and poverty, utilizing the grammar I have learned by presenting some of the questions a doctor might ask during a visit, and also asking my language partner about her own personal views about health & poverty in India.
Learning goals include:
-Learn 20 new vocabulary words and expressions related to poverty and health (and maybe caste)
-Learn expressions related to body parts and a visit to the doctor (questions - will utilize interrogatives)
-Audio from conversation with LP
-Listen/watch a public health message from Indian media or one that is translated into Hindi (aimed at Indian population in Canada or in the US)
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