"The Five Faces of Vietnam" was first and foremost an academic opportunity for students to use first-hand experiences to asses America's relationship with Vietnam. To do this, many of us had to "unlearn" our assumptions about the historical relationship between the U.S. and Vietnam. We demonstrated our learning through several journals reflecting our readings and experiences in the south, the center, the service-learning project in the north, and the country as a whole.

Our texts:
Borton, Lady (1995). After Sorrow: An American Among the Vietnamese. Foreword by Grace Paley. New York; Kodansha International.
Dalton, Robert (1993). "The Six Faces of Contemporary Vietnam." Unpublished.
Isaacs, Arnold (1997). Vietnam Shadows: The War, its Ghosts, and its Legacy. Baltimore; Johns Hopkins University Press.
Kamm, Henry (1996). Dragon Ascending: Vietnam and the Vietnamese. New York; Arcade Publishing.

Dr. Vietri's objectives for the course were threefold:

• To immerse the students in the political, cultural and economic life of contemporary Vietnam and experience the legacies of America's war there;

• To understand the separate but interdependent cultures that exist in Vietnam's five regions: the south, the center, the north, the Mekong delta and the Red River delta;

• To recognize the unique role played by non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in improving the lives of Vietnamese people by doing a service-learning project at the Ha Noi division of the international nonprofit foundation, Operation Smile.

Journals: The South

Journals: The Center