For this Assignment, you will identify a social issue or problem that is important to you and reflect on how it might be remediated through the application of learning principles that you have learned during the course. Finally, you reflect on what you conclude are the most useful concepts that you are taking away from this course, and how they apply to your own life.
To prepare for this Assignment:
Review the weekly Learning Resources for the course, and your previous Discussion and Application Assignments.
Read the assigned article "Expanding Our Understanding of Social Change."
Identify a social issue or problem and consider how it might be managed through the application of learning principles you have learned throughout this course. When identifying your social issue or problem you should focus on the behavior and its consequences (rather than on the need for attitude changes).
Examples for ideas: Racial prejudice, crime, pollution, education, exhaustion of natural resources, overpopulation, poverty, AIDS and other diseases, etc.
Reflect on what you conclude are the most useful concepts that you are taking away from this course and how the concepts apply, or could potentially apply, to your own life.
The Assignment (1-2 pages):
Briefly explain in a short paragraph (100 words or less) a social issue or problem, and explain why this problem is important to you.
Explain how the social issue or problem might be managed through the application of learning principles you have learned throughout this course. Be sure to focus on the behavior and its consequences (rather than on the need for attitude changes).
Summarize in a short paragraph (100 words or less) the most useful concepts you have learned in this course and how they apply (or could potentially apply) to your own life.
Support your Assignment with evidence from the assigned Learning Resources. Provide a reference list for resources you used for this Assignment.