In Week 1, you analyzed a pre-intervention elementary school asthma database from the perspective of a public health informatician. This week, you will review the data set in more detail and discuss the tools informaticians use. For the asthma data summary, you will use your Excel Spreadsheet and Pivot Table reports. You will then answer the following questions in the form of a 3–4-page summary […]

Cultural backgrounds can greatly impact people who are in need of human services. In some cultures, for example, illness is seen as a sign of weakness, which sometimes leads to delayed medical or social assistance. This is just one of the countless ways that culture impacts human services, and as a future professional, it is important that you gain insights into how culture might impact […]

Step 1:  Review all of your auto-ethnography entries.  Are they complete or is there a social justice issue you confronted in your schooling that you still need to write on?  (If so do it!) Write a 1-2 page essay on what this autoethnography project/reflection meant to you this semester.  How did it enhance your learning and reflection on your own schooling experiences and how questioning […]

ETHICAL THEORY PAPER:  An ethical theory paper will be for the purpose of examining one of the particular ethical theories that will be discussed in class ( feminist ethics ). The student will be asked to analyze the argument presented in a particular theory and make explicit the salient points, considering how those points (assumptions) are supposed to be connected to and lead to the […]

As will become evident, when you start reading below, there is a series of very particular directions for writing this essay, near the end of the course. Understand that these directions are designed to a) give you the opportunity to answer the question asked in a manner specific to the academic discipline of philosophy, and b) to thereby demonstrate the degree to which you have […]

This discussion addresses module outcome 2. In this discussion you will apply the theories of socialization to the concept of family as an agent of socialization. Be sure to watch this video on Primary and Secondary Socialization [Video, 1:45 mins], and read Chapter 4 and the lecture notes before beginning this activity. Theories that examine socialization argue that you learn social behaviors from other actors and institutions […]

This assignment, Project 2, addresses course outcomes 5 and 6. This assignment will require you to think about key sociological concepts, such as race, gender, and social class. You will need to think about the way social groups develop and enforce rules. Specifically, you will be asked to reflect on whether or not social rules are effective in controlling social deviance. You will be asked […]

Research the campus, local and state MIP, DUI, BUI and underage drinking laws. Re-read Chapter 6 of Andreatta before starting your research. Discuss your research in a 3-4 page paper. What are the local laws and campus rules for alcohol and drug use? What punishments or fines can you occur for a MIP, DUI, BUI or underage drinking? Are there any laws, rules or sanctions […]

 In the lectures, I presented the important role of Chinese immigrants (and later other Asian immigrants) to the development of American industrialism. First, discuss how and why Chinese immigrants initially came to the United States and their main contributions to the American economy from the 1840s to the 1920s. Then, drawing on lectures, explain why do you think this history is conspicuously absent in today’s […]

You have recently been hired in the newly created position of Vice President for Ethics and Regulatory Compliance at a rapidly expanding technology company that is headquartered in the United States. It employs about 15,000 people worldwide. The company has been in business for about 20 years, and its growth has largely been fueled by the global expansion of the Internet and, in more recent […]