A. Data collection method: State your data collection method (qualitative interview) and justify your selection of the method. Briefly discuss merits (and limitations) of using this particular data collection method. Use a method textbook or scholarly literature to support your argument.
b. Focus of Inquiry: Identify 3-5 areas your investigation will focus on. Justify your choices. Your areas of inquiry should correspond with a conceptual framework. What kind of information are you planning to obtain in order to address each focus of inquiry?
c. Interviewees: Who are your interviewees? What are your selection criteria (be as detailed as possible)? What is the sample size (general expectation is 10+) ? Justify your selection criteria.
d. Detailed Data Collection Plan: Describe your data collection plan in details when, where, and how are you going to conduct interviews? How are you going to recruit your interviewees? Any obstacles you might predict? How long will each intervie
A. Data collection method: State your data collection method (qualitative interview) and justify your selection of the method. Briefly discuss merits (and limitations) of using this particular data collection method. Use a method textbook or scholarly literature to support your argument.
b. Focus of Inquiry: Identify 3-5 areas your investigation will focus on. Justify your choices. Your areas of inquiry should correspond with a conceptual framework. What kind of information are you planning to obtain in order to address each focus of inquiry?
c. Interviewees: Who are your interviewees? What are your selection criteria (be as detailed as possible)? What is the sample size (general expectation is 10+) ? Justify your selection criteria.
d. Detailed Data Collection Plan: Describe your data collection plan in details when, where, and how are you going to conduct interviews? How are you going to recruit your interviewees? Any obstacles you might predict? How long will each intervie
Description: You will write a brief (4-5 pages [more if necessary], typed (12-point font), double-spaced) essay in which you discuss and analyze your personal experiences with race and ethnicity.
Organization: Your essay should address the following issues:
A. Your Racial and Ethnic Identity
What is it? How do you define yourself (i.e., what symbolic markers/aspects your group identity from other identities)? How do others define you in terms of race and/or ethnicity? What meaning does your group identity have for you? How does it shape your personal identity?
How did you first become aware of your racial and/or ethnic identity as something that distinguishes you or marks you as different?
How does it affect your day-to-day experiences (if you feel that there is little effect, then you should explain why)?
How does your racial and/or ethnic identity affect your life chances (i.e., your opportunities to experience the good thi
For your final paper, you will write a four to five-page letter to the new or existing President, a representative or someone in power addressing a social inequality. There is a lot in the news lately that are bringing out protest and concern including income inequality, systemic racism, student loans and the burden on the younger generation, health care access, and many others (please, no local issues such as traffic or the cost of SEPTA). Write a strong AND scholarly letter to the person. Your letter should cite at least FOUR peer-reviewed articles.
Project Due Date and Time
Your Final Project Topic selection is due at the end of Week 9. A rough draft is due in Week 14 and your final project is due at the end of Week 16. However, it is suggested that you submit your final project and draft as early as possible so you can receive timely feedback.
Purpose
Now that you have begun to hone your visual literacy skills, approach this final project with a critical eye and apply what you have learned in class while finding meaning in imagery and addressing the sociology of perception. You have two options for this Final Project:
Option 1: Directed Research Paper
Option 2: Visual Essay
Option 1: Directed Research Paper
If you create a Directed Research Paper, the paper should be to 5 to 6 typed double-spaced pages, not including Title and Works Cited pages. You must select one rhetorical strategy (either Informative, Argument/Persuasion, or Critical Analysis). This research paper MUST include reliable and verifi
Using the free recording and editing software Audacity, compose a 5- to 7-minute audio recording with speaker notes (a verbatim transcript) in which you present your initial analysis of your previously selected film. This recording will primarily address sections III and IV of your final project. Select one of the major social issues in your film and address the following:
Identify the social phenomena influencing the social issue you selected, substantiating your identification(s) with course readings and an additional article.
Apply an appropriate key theoretical perspective to explain the relationship between the social phenomena and the social issue, detailing the appropriateness of the perspective chosen.
From the theories we have covered thus far in the course, identify one key classical sociological theory and one key contemporary sociological theory that help explain the relationship between the social phenomena and the social issue depicted in the film. Why are th
Various agencies contribute to the social services offered in social work practice. Although the goal of many social work agencies may appear the sameto offer social services to clients who need themeach agency provides a unique approach or opportunity to deliver those needs.
As a future social worker, understanding the position of your agency in reference to the world of social work practice might provide valuable perspectives for applying your professional skills.
For this Assignment, research the agency you are working with for your field education experience. Examine the characteristics of your agency in reference to the field of social work and the types of services offered to clients.
The Assignment (810 PowerPoint slides, voiceover optional):
Create an Agency PowerPoint Presentation that includes the following:
A definition of the characteristics of the population(s) served by your agency
A description of the sources of funding for your agen
A process recording is a written tool used by field education experience students, field instructors, and faculty to examine the dynamics of social work interactions in time. Process recordings can help in developing and refining interviewing and intervention skills. By conceptualizing and organizing ongoing activities with social work clients, you are able to clarify the purpose of interviews and interventions, identify personal and professional strengths and weaknesses, and improve self-awareness. The process recording is also a useful tool in exploring the interpersonal dynamics and values operating between you and the client system through an analysis of filtering the process used in recording a session.
For this Assignment, you will submit a process recording of your field education experiences specific to this week.
The Assignment (24 pages):
Provide a transcript of what happened during your field education experience, including a dialogue of interaction wit
Post a blog post that includes:
An explanation of the use of self during your field education experience that you may have encountered or that you might encounter
A description of potential boundary challenges in your field education experience
You will respond to 3 colleagues once I upload
Refer to the topics covered in this week's resources and incorporate them into your blog.
Post a blog post that includes:
A description of diversity and/or cultural competence considerations in your agency
An explanation of how diversity and/or cultural competence might reflect your agency learning agreement
You will respond to 3 colleagues once I upload
