Guided Resource Inquiry (GRI) Pilot Project

Sample Assignment B: Criticism, Interpretation, and Bias

Sample Course

Recreation and Tourism Management 300. Recreation and Community Development
Examination of the multicultural dynamics of urban life, and recreation's role in building community and in developing youth capacity and indigenous leadership.


Sample Assignment

As a group or as individuals select (or as assigned by the professor) one of the prompts with primary sources displayed on this page. Write a brief essay of 4-5 pages in which you utilize secondary sources, including assigned course readings and other peer-reviewed articles, as well as the primary sources listed under Statement A or Statement B to substantiate and support your argument for either statement:

Statement A: Ethnic images or stereotypes are imperative to successful cultural tourism efforts.

1.  "Official Program, La Fiesta de San Gabriel, September 6-7-8, 1940." 

2.  Letter about cultural tourism efforts in East Los Angeles, 1999. 
Part of Juana Beatriz Gutiérrez Mothers of East Los Angeles (MELA) Collection, 1983-2004
Available in Special Collections and Archives   

Statement B: Ethnic images or stereotypes are not imperative to successful cultural tourism efforts.



Learning Outcomes

  • Students learn to identify and interpret bias in primary and secondary sources
  • Students think critically about primary and secondary sources

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