Write an essay of at least 500 words based on published literature supporting Career and Self-Development as a skill.
To meet the expectation of this assignment you will need two citations within your paper, both from a published scholarly journal.
Some ideas to focus your research toward:
What do organizations, professionals, and academic institutions say about this skill?
What are the strategies to develop and hone this skill?
What industries especially value this skill?
Why do you want to develop this skill?
The Skill
EQUITY & INCLUSION
Demonstrate the awareness, attitude, knowledge, and skills required to equitably engage and include people from different local and global cultures. Engage in anti-racist practices that actively challenge the systems, structures, and policies of racism.
SAMPLE BEHAVIORS
Solicit and use feedback from multiple cultural perspectives to make inclusive and equity-minded decisions.
Actively contribute to inclusive and equitable practices that influence individual and systemic change.
Advocate for inclusion, equitable practices, justice, and empowerment for historically marginalized communities.
Seek global cross-cultural interactions and experiences that enhance one’s understanding of people from different demographic groups and that lead to personal growth.
Keep an open mind to diverse ideas and new ways of thinking.
Identify resources and eliminate barriers resulting from individual and systemic racism, inequities, and biases.
Demonstrate flexibility by adapting to diverse environments.
Address systems of privilege that limit opportunities for members of historically marginalized communities.
Additional questions asked by the professor for extra credit (250 words, written at the end of the main assignment):
The Muslim Uighurs are unable to freely practice their religion in China. They have faced numerous human rights violations. Can anything be done to address the human rights violations that the Uighurs have faced? Should the United States do anything for the Muslim Uighurs? If so, what should be done? Or is this a situation that the United States should not get involved in?
