Assignment: Integrative Learning Capstone
Assignment: Integrative Learning Capstone
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Assignment: Integrative & Interdisciplinary Learning Capstone
5 page essay written in my Integrative & Interdisciplinary Learning Capstone:Serial Killers as Heroes in Pop culture
The Core Assessment will be a paper that covers 100% of the Core Learning Outcomes. The Core Assessment in this course will be a major critical paper of no fewer than 5 pages, which will include research and appropriate documentation. The project will be completed in the final quarter of the term. The paper must address a significant contemporary issue of a global nature relevant to the course, the student’s major, and the Liberal Education program.The paper should synthesize multiple disciplinary perspectives and propose critical and creative responses. Individual instructors will specify assignment details.This assessment is designed to assess primarily Core Learning Outcomes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and will make up 20% of the course grade.
You are decreasing uncertainty, by solving some kind of social problem that did not have a solution. You are acting autonomously, making choices instead of complaining about the social problem. You are connecting with other people to facilitate change and you are reducing unfairness in the world in some way. These ‘social problems’ can be as simple and local as improving the way people communicate in a lunchroom, such that people start to share personal histories and connect more. Or they can be projects that deeply affect the wellbeing of communities.
…organizations committed to improving the world achieve more than those with a vision to just beat the competition…
This idea of socially-valuable projects being deeply rewarding links to organizational research on high performing cultures, showing that organizations committed to improving the world achieve more than those with a vision to just beat the competition (Logan, King and Fischer-Wright, 2008). There are also links to research on ‘socialized visionary communication’ (Waldman et.al, 2008), and the concept of leaders being more inspiring when they focus people on a social change (Brown and Trevino, 2006). Assignment: Integrative & Interdisciplinary Learning Capstone
