IDS 402 Project Guidelines and Rubric
Course Outcomes
In this project, you will demonstrate your mastery of the following course outcomes:
Analyze the various components of wellness for investigating the influence of wellness on one’s discipline of study or chosen profession
Integrate interdisciplinary approaches for determining the impact that contemporary issues in healthcare systems have on modern society
Describe contemporary issues surrounding wellness for their relevance to and impact on the individual and society by employing appropriate research strategies
Recommend potential applications of strategies for monitoring and enhancing personal and public wellness
Articulate informed viewpoints on contemporary issues surrounding wellness issues through effective communication skills
Assess cultural and social attitudes, choices, and behaviors for their implications to lifelong health and wellness through the incorporation of diverse perspectives and viewpoints informed by relevant literature and peer experiences
Overview
This course explores wellness and its impact on the world around us. Wellness influences society, and society influences wellness, creating a feedback loop between them. You will critically analyze a specific issue or event in wellness and how it impacts individuals and society using the four general education lenses: history, humanities, natural and applied sciences, and social science. From this enhanced understanding, you will be equipped to draw connections between wellness, self, and engagement with your community. You will demonstrate your ability to think critically, investigate, and communicate clearly. These skills are often necessary to achieve personal and professional goals across many disciplines.
Directions
For this project, you will write a 10-page paper that examines your chosen research topic and how it affects individuals and society. In the paper, you will describe your topic, present a thesis statement, perform a critical analysis, and reflect on how your topic informs your personal life and experience. You will demonstrate your ability to think critically, investigate, and communicate clearly.
Specifically, you must address the following rubric criteria:
Evidence: You will use evidence to support your analysis throughout the project.
Integrate reliable evidence from varied sources throughout your paper to support your analysis. Use at least two resources from the module resources sections of this course and two resources that you find through your own research using the Shapiro Library.
It is important to draw from a more diverse pool of perspectives from varied sources to support the analysis, which is different from the Citations and Attributions rubric criterion.
Reliable evidence from varied sources should be interwoven throughout the paper itself. Citing and attributing sources will be represented as APA in-text citations and a reference list at the end of your work.
You will be evaluated on both criteria.
Topic Description: In this section, you will identify and discuss the factors that shape your thesis statement.
Describe a social or global issue or event that is related to issues of wellness. Include information such as the origin of the issue and what it is about.
Describe a population significant to your topic. Include information such as demographics, cultural practices, social identity, and key challenges.
Assess how society impacts the chosen issue or event.
Explain your choice of general education interdisciplinary lens for analyzing your topic.
Construct a thesis statement that combines your topic, population, cultural situation, and choice of general education interdisciplinary lens.
Critical Analysis: In this section, you will analyze your topic using one of the general education lenses and recommend strategies for using this kind of analysis to meet your personal and professional goals.
Analyze your chosen issue or event through one of the general education interdisciplinary lenses to determine its impact on various institutions.
Analyze how social practices have been shaped by issues and events in wellness in modern culture.
Describe at least one specific element that could benefit from change within your topic.
Explain how at least one potential obstacle could interfere with the population’s engagement with your topic.
Assess at least two significant factors that could impact your topic, such as biases, beliefs, assumptions, and/or values.
Assess the benefits and challenges of addressing issues in wellness.
Recommend strategies for using this kind of critical analysis for meeting your personal and professional goals.
What might this look like in your everyday life? Consider how wellness can be used to address the day-to-day responsibilities or questions faced by practitioners in your field or discipline.
Reflection: In this section, you will describe how using critical analysis tools influences your personal experience, your field of study or profession, how you interact with others.
Describe how critically analyzing your issue/event in wellness has informed your individual framework of perception.
Consider how your analysis has altered the way you perceive the world.
Describe how examining your bias has altered the way you perceive the world.
Reflect on your own bias and then consider how an awareness of one’s bias can change our perceptions.
Explain how critically analyzing wellness can influence your field of study or profession.
How can studying wellness inform your understanding of the next big topic of study in your field or profession?
Explain at least one way in which your analysis might have been different if you had used one of the other general education lenses to analyze your topic.
Explain how analyzing wellness can help interactions with people with a different viewpoint, culture, or perspective.
What to Submit
To complete this project, you must submit a Word document of 10 pages in length (plus a reference page) with 12-point Times New Roman font, double spacing, and one-inch margins. Use at least two resources from course materials and two resources from the library. Sources should be cited according to APA style. Consult the Shapiro Library APA Style Guide for more information on citations.
Supporting Materials
The following resource supports your work on the project:
Library Guide: IDS 402: Wellness
You may find the resources in this library guide helpful as you work on your project.
Project Rubric
Criteria Exemplary (100%) Proficient (85%) Needs Improvement (55%) Not Evident (0%) Value
Reliable Evidence From Varied Sources Exceeds proficiency in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative manner Integrates reliable evidence from varied sources throughout the paper to support analysis, using at least two resources from the module resource sections of the course and two resources found through independent research using the Shapiro Library Shows progress toward proficiency, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include drawing from a more diverse pool of perspectives, using more varied sources to support the analysis, integrating evidence and sources throughout the paper to support the analysis, or using at least two resources from the module resource sections of the course and two resources found through independent research using the Shapiro Library Does not attempt criterion 5
Topic Description: Social or Global Issue or Event Exceeds proficiency in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative manner Describes a social or global issue or event that is related to issues of wellness, including information such as the origin of the issue and what it is about Shows progress toward proficiency, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include providing a more thorough description of the topic or its origin, greater support about its connection to wellness, or additional contextual information about the topic Does not attempt criterion 5
Topic Description: Description of Population Exceeds proficiency in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative manner Describes a population significant to the topic, including information such as demographics, cultural practices, social identity, or key challenges Shows progress toward proficiency, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include providing a more thorough description of the population or providing greater support for the population’s demographics, cultural practices, social identity, or key challenges Does not attempt criterion 5
Topic Description: Society Impacts Exceeds proficiency in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative manner Assesses how society impacts the chosen issue or event Shows progress toward proficiency, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include providing a more thorough or detailed assessment of how society impacts the issue or event or providing more support for this assessment Does not attempt criterion 5
Topic Description: General Education Lens Exceeds proficiency in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative manner Explains the choice of general education interdisciplinary lens for analyzing the topic Shows progress toward proficiency, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include connecting one of the four general education lenses to the topic or providing a more convincing or thorough explanation of why the lens was chosen Does not attempt criterion 5
Topic Description: Thesis Statement Exceeds proficiency in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative manner Constructs a thesis statement that combines topic, population, societal situation, and choice of general education interdisciplinary lens Shows progress toward proficiency, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include constructing a clearer or more concise thesis statement that integrates topic, population, societal situation, and choice of general education lens Does not attempt criterion 5
Critical Analysis: Impact on Institutions Exceeds proficiency in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative manner Analyzes chosen issue or event through a general education interdisciplinary lens to determine its impact on various institutions Shows progress toward proficiency, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include using one of the lenses to analyze the issue or event, conducting a deeper analysis of the impact of the issue or event on various institutions through the chosen lens, or providing greater, more relevant, or more appropriate support for the analysis Does not attempt criterion 5
Critical Analysis: Social Practices Exceeds proficiency in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative manner Analyzes how social practices have been shaped by issues and events in wellness in modern culture Shows progress toward proficiency, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include conducting a deeper analysis of how social practices have been shaped or providing greater, more relevant, or more appropriate support for the analysis Does not attempt criterion 5
Critical Analysis: Element That Could Benefit From Change Exceeds proficiency in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative manner Describes at least one specific element within the topic that could benefit from change Shows progress toward proficiency, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include providing a more detailed description of the chosen element or providing more thorough support for why it could benefit from change Does not attempt criterion 5
Critical Analysis: Potential Obstacle Exceeds proficiency in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative manner Explains how at least one potential obstacle could interfere with the population’s engagement with the topic Shows progress toward proficiency, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include connecting the topic to a potential obstacle or providing more thorough support for how it could interfere with the population’s engagement with the topic Does not attempt criterion 5
Critical Analysis: Factors That Could Impact the Topic Exceeds proficiency in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative manner Assesses at least two significant factors that could impact the topic, such as biases, beliefs, assumptions, and/or values Shows progress toward proficiency, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include identifying two specific factors that could impact the topic or providing more thorough support for the chosen factors or for how they could impact the topic Does not attempt criterion 5
Critical Analysis: Benefits and Challenges Exceeds proficiency in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative manner Assesses the benefits and challenges of addressing issues in wellness Shows progress toward proficiency, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include connecting the benefits and challenges assessed to wellness, providing a more detailed assessment of these, or providing more support for them or for how they relate to wellness Does not attempt criterion 5
Critical Analysis: Analysis Strategies Exceeds proficiency in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative manner Recommends strategies for using critical analysis for meeting personal and professional goals Shows progress toward proficiency, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include providing more relevant or appropriate strategies for using critical analysis for meeting personal or professional goals or providing a more thorough explanation of the strategies selected or the reason why they were recommended Does not attempt criterion 5
Reflection: Individual Framework of Perception Exceeds proficiency in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative manner Describes how critically analyzing an issue or event in wellness has informed individual framework of perception Shows progress toward proficiency, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include providing additional details or a more specific description of how critically analyzing an issue or event in wellness informed individual framework of perception Does not attempt criterion 5
Reflection: Bias Exceeds proficiency in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative manner Describes how examining bias has altered ways of perceiving the world Shows progress toward proficiency, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include clearly connecting bias and personal perceptions or providing more thorough support for how examining bias has altered personal perceptions Does not attempt criterion 5
Reflection: Field of Study or Profession Exceeds proficiency in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative manner Explains how critically analyzing wellness can influence field of study or profession Shows progress toward proficiency, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include connecting the critical analysis of wellness to an academic or professional experience or providing more thorough support for this connection Does not attempt criterion 5
Reflection: Different General Education Lens Exceeds proficiency in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative manner Explains at least one way the analysis might have been different if another general education lens was used to analyze the topic Shows progress toward proficiency, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include using an alternative general education lens, providing a clearer explanation of how the analysis might have been different if one of the other general education lenses had been used to analyze the topic or providing more support for the explanation Does not attempt criterion 5
Reflection: Interactions Exceeds proficiency in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative manner Explains how analyzing wellness can help interactions with people with a different viewpoint, culture, or perspective Shows progress toward proficiency, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include connecting the value of critical analysis to interactions with people with a different viewpoint, culture, or perspective or providing a more thorough explanation of how the analysis can help these interactions Does not attempt criterion 5
Articulation of Response Exceeds proficiency in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative manner Clearly conveys meaning with correct grammar, sentence structure, and spelling, demonstrating an understanding of audience and purpose Shows progress toward proficiency, but with errors in grammar, sentence structure, and spelling, negatively affecting readability Submission has critical errors in grammar, sentence structure, and spelling, preventing understanding of ideas 5
Citations and Attributions Uses citations for ideas requiring attribution, with few or no minor errors Uses citations for ideas requiring attribution, with consistent minor errors Uses citations for ideas requiring attribution, with major errors Does not use citations for ideas requiring attribution 5
Total: 100%
