OMAR HASSAN DPHREPAUTEZZ: My name is Dr. Omar Hassan
Dphrepautezz.
I'm an associate professor here at Chaffey College.
I teach history.
I grew up in a household where history was very important,
our history, who we were, where we had come from,
and the notion that somehow one can derive wisdom from history.
What I love about teaching at Chaffey College
is that the student body is extremely diverse,
and I don't just mean by ethnicity, but also by age,
by life experience.
HANNAHLEAH OEDING: My name is HannahLeah Oeding,
and I'm studying history here at Chaffey College.
I hadn't been in school for over a decade and so having
that understanding that people are
coming from all different walks of life.
I had some really wonderful professors
who just were so patient.
OMAR HASSAN DPHREPAUTEZZ: The experience
that students will have in my classroom
and was able to encounter the histories of those people
that generally you're not going to be exposed
to, African-American people, Latino people, Asian-American.
It's going to open up your perspective.
It's going to open up your world.
HANNAHLEAH OEDING: I love learning
from different time periods, different cultures,
different countries.
Our history is so intertwined with one
another's that it's really important
that we know and understand other people's perspectives.
OMAR HASSAN DPHREPAUTEZZ: You'll leave the program
wanting to learn more and wanting
to develop your intellectual skills even further.
HANNAHLEAH OEDING: I think history
is a great jumping off point for a lot of different careers.
I'm planning on transferring to a four year university.
Then I would really like to go to law school
and become a lawyer.
OMAR HASSAN DPHREPAUTEZZ: There's so
many careers you can go into if you have a history
degree because you're learning to think analytically,
you're learning to think critically,
and you're learning to interpret.
And those are valued skills to go to law school,
if you want to go into intelligence, if you want
to go into security, if you wanted
to go into political science.
In almost any field you can think of,
I think these are valued skills.
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