Social Identity Paper
Final Research Presentation & Paper
Other Course Assignments
Classroom Conduct
Policies
100
The maximum number of pages this paper should be.
What is 6 to 9 pages for undergraduate students and 10 to 15 pages for graduate students
100
Reflections about your experiences through out the course, your personal thoughts and feelings, biases and struggles as you anticipate working with individuals different from social identity categories different than your own. Also, how your own social identity might impact your counseling.
What is the Final Synthesis/Reflection Paper
100
Out of class experiences merged with readings, in preparation for small group discussions in class
What are integration activities?
100
Speak from experience, avoid generalizing about groups of people, share air time, listen respectfully to differing perspectives, focus on one's own learning.
What are some of the guidelines for participation in class discussions?
100
Email the instructor of your intention to miss class, check in with a classmate to obtain information about the missed class. Missed class sessions cannot be made up. There is a deduction in points for missed class sessions and integration activities.
What are procedures and policies regarding absences?
200
The context from which your paper should be written.
What is your own social identity, culture and cultural development, including implications for counseling practice?
200
These two activites are a required component of your research and you must provide verification of your participation in them.
What are immersion experiences?
200
A form found on Moodle that helps students to critically reflect on the activities and readings during some of the weeks.
What is an Activity Reflection?
200
Attending class, completing activities and readings prior to class sessions, coming to class prepared to lead a discussion with classmates about the readings and activities you completed. Handing in your activity reflection/synthesis for the week.
What is "How to obtain full points for class participation."
200
This will only be granted in emergency or hardship circumstances and is student initiated and negotiated. An example of viable circumstances would be extended hospitalization.
What is "Policy on Incompletes"
300
The portion of your paper that will explore your "deeper" family heritage and will demand research and/or interviews with previous generations.
What is Section One
300
Cultural events, activities sponsored by the community of your assigned community/cultural group, such as a pow wow, or a play for the hard of hearing community. One of these may be substituted for an interview with an individual in that community or a professional who works specifically with the community you are researching.
What are acceptable immersion activities.
300
The topic for the week and the class session number where you are asked to "plan to bring a dish to share and a story about your heritage."
What is "Multicultural Issues and the Family" October 23 (class 8)
300
Ideas and assertions that are clearly stated and supported by a well articulated rationale.
What is demonstration of critical analysis and synthesis?
300
This will result in an automatic 10% deduction from your grade for the assignment.
What are late assignments?
400
Psycho-behavioral modality, Axiology, Ethos, Epistemology, Logic, Ontology, Concept of time, Concept of self.
What are Brown & Landrum-Brown's "Dimensions of Culture?"
400
This includes the title of your presentation, topics to be covered, the order of your presentation, the research methods and resources you used to put together the materials for your presentation and the contribution of each group member. You only need to hand in one of these per group.
What is the outline and summary of your final group project?
400
The format that asks students to identify examples of social construction of bias such as social policies being argued for implementation, biased attitudes of/in the media or other social institutions, examples of ism statements or behaviors, friends, colleagues, fellow employees, family members and to explore one's own internal reaction to these experiences at least one time each month.
What are Monthly Moodle Journals?
400
Recognizing that safety has different meanings for different people. For some it means not having to listen to people make racist or biased statements in the "name of learning." For others it means not being called out for being racist or biased when something racist or biased is said.
What is creating a safe learning environment?
400
Any Act that violates the rights of another student in academic work or that involves misrepresentation of your own work. (cheating on assignments/exams, plagiarism, submitting the same paper or substantially similar papers without permission of both instructors, depriving another student of necessary course materials or interfering with another student's work.
What is Scholastic Misconduct
500
Where do you fit on each dimension of culture and from where in your cultural past might this characteristic have derived? Did substance use or mental health issues in your family impede or impact these dimensions in any way? Are there ways you have personally changed over time or are different from your family in these dimensions? How might these dimensions impact the counseling relationship across cultural identities?
What are questions you should ask yourself in your Midterm Social Identity Paper.
500
Specific cultural considerations, relevant history, worldview and values, community or historical trauma, co-occurring substance use and mental health patterns, community resources and implications for substance use and mental health care.
What are topics that you may use the U of M library system, written and online sources to research for your final presentation.
500
This out of class activity will require you to begin tracking your contact with people from a variety of social identity categories for one full week prior to class session it is due. Include the class session and due date.
What is Social Contact Assessment?
500
The experience of feeling deeply uncomfortable about something that was said or experienced related to race, gender, sexual orientation.
What are triggers?
500
Representing someone else's intellectual property as your own. This might include, an idea or insight, a photograph, drawing, or song, a unique way of wording something, a discovery or a whole term paper.
What is plagiarism?
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