I am very excited about being in a poli. sci. class while I am here in Kosovo. In my first year at RIT, I was missing a lot of the debate that I got in my APs in high school. The Peace Keeping and Conflict Transformation course will allow me to gain a better understanding of peacekeeping operations, humanitarian aid, and the meaning of transformation. I can already tell this class will be extremely challenging, but I’m excited to learn something new. The work outside of class has been making sense to me and it is really thought-provoking. I hope the rest of this course continues to be as interesting. My reasoning for taking this course is to be able to be informed about these issues so that I could potentially document them in my future as a photojournalist.