Moroccan Culture and Society

As it is a Field study experience in Morocco, students are required to produce three main different activities under the guidance of their instructor:  1. A journal (40%) that records summaries of the students’ cultural experiences in Morocco. A cultural journal is not a record of personal activities, attitudes or relationships, its primary purpose is to record the details of multiple aspects of culture on a daily basis, at the moment when lectures, people, performances, places and their perceived cultural themes and implications are clear to the writer. The Journal should include the following:
• Topics discussed by the guest speakers during their lectures
• Interesting facts about the city of Fes; • Family life as perceived in the home stay experience;

• Details about every site visited during the trips in addition to all cultural geography and other cultural and social issues discussed with instructors during the excursion. • Religious and national holidays and any cultural/social performances such as weddings etc… to which students are invited while in Morocco.  • Their experience of the linguistic diversity of Moroccan culture. 2. Final Exam (30%) students will have to choose to write an essay on one of the topics given within two hours.  3. Creation of a blog (30%)  “Minnesota in Fes” in which each student, who is going to become also an expert on one walk from Bab to Bab, will contribute with one entry to the blog every week either by guiding his/her friends in the alleys of Fes or talking about a facet of his/her experience in Morocco.  

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