Investigating One’s Discipline

Project Guidelines and Rubric Course Outcomes
In this project, you will demonstrate your mastery of the following course outcomes:

Analyze the various components of wellness for investigating the influence of wellness on one’s discipline of study or chosen profes Integrate interdisciplinary approaches for determining the impact that contemporary issues in healthcare systems have on modern Describe contemporary issues surrounding wellness for their relevance to and impact on the individual and society by employing a Recommend potential applications of strategies for monitoring and enhancing personal and public wellness
Articulate informed viewpoints on contemporary issues surrounding wellness issues through effective communication skills
Assess cultural and social attitudes, choices, and behaviors for their implications to lifelong health and wellness through the incorpo informed by relevant literature and peer experiences

Overview
This course explores wellness and its impact on the world around us. Wellness influences society, and society influences wellness, creatin analyze a specific issue or event in wellness and how it impacts individuals and society using the four general education lenses: history, hu science. From this enhanced understanding, you will be equipped to draw connections between wellness, self, and engagement with your critically, investigate, and communicate clearly. These skills are often necessary to achieve personal and professional goals across many d
Directions
For this project, you will write a 10-page paper that examines your chosen research topic and how it affects individuals and society. In the statement, perform a critical analysis, and reflect on how your topic informs your personal life and experience. You will demonstrate your communicate clearly.
Specifically, you must address the following rubric criteria:

1. You will use evidence to support your analysis throughout the project.
   A. Integrate reliable evidence from varied sources throughout your paper to support your analysis. Use at least two resources fr two resources that you find through your own research using the Shapiro Library.
   i. It is important to draw from a more diverse pool of perspectives from varied sources to support the analysis, which is di criterion.
   ii. Reliable evidence from varied sources should be interwoven throughout the paper itself. Citing and attributing sources reference list at the end of your work.
   iii. You will be evaluated on both criteria.
2. Topic Description: In this section, you will identify and discuss the factors that shape your thesis statement.
   A. Describe a social or global issue or event that is related to issues of wellness. Include information such as the origin of the issu
   B. Describe a significant to your topic. Include information such as demographics, cultural practices, social identity, a
   C. Assess how society impacts the chosen issue or event.
   D. Explain your choice of general education interdisciplinary lens for analyzing your topic.
   E. Construct a thesis statement that combines your topic, population, cultural situation, and choice of general education interdi

professional goals.
A. Analyze your chosen issue or event through one of the general education interdisciplinary lenses to determine its v
B. Analyze how social practices have been shaped by issues and events in wellness in modern culture.
C. Describe at least one specific element that could benefit from change within your topic.
D. Explain how at least one potential obstacle could interfere with the population’s engagement with your topic.
E. Assess at least two significant factors that could impact your topic, such as biases, beliefs, assumptions, and/or values.
F. Assess the benefits and challenges of addressing issues in wellness.
G. Recommend strategies for using this kind of critical analysis for meeting your personal and professional goals.
i. What might this look like in your everyday life? Consider how wellness can be used to address the day-to-day responsib or discipline.

4. In this section, you will describe how using critical analysis tools influences your personal experience, your field of study
   A. Describe how critically analyzing your issue/event in wellness has informed your individual framework of perception.
   i. Consider how your analysis has altered the way you perceive the world.

B. Describe how examining your bias has altered the way you perceive the world.
i. Reflect on your own bias and then consider how an awareness of one’s bias can change our perceptions.

C. Explain how critically analyzing wellness can influence your field of study or profession.
i. How can studying wellness inform your understanding of the next big topic of study in your field or profession?

D. Explain at least one way in which your analysis might have been different if you had used one of the other general education le
E. Explain how analyzing wellness can help interactions with people with a different viewpoint, culture, or perspective.