This course explores wellness and its impact on the world around us. Wellness influences society, and society influences wellness, creating a feedback loop between them. We will critically analyze this feedback loop in this course through social, historical, and theoretical approaches to wellness as well as the four general education lenses: history, humanities, natural and applied sciences, and social sciences. Each of these four perspectives allows us to better understand the construction of wellness and its interrelation with society. From this enhanced understanding, you will be equipped to draw connections between wellness and your personal and professional lives, helping you to become a better-informed citizen who can make a positive difference in the world. Wellness has a pervading influence on many aspects of society, which requires diverse knowledge and perspectives to investigate and change.
The purpose of this project is to examine a specific issue or event in wellness and how it impacts individuals and society through the development of a critical analysis portfolio and a presentation in which you will demonstrate your ability to think critically, investigate, and communicate clearly. These skills are often necessary to achieve personal and professional goals across many disciplines. In this assignment, you will demonstrate your mastery of the following course outcomes:
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- Analyze the various components of wellness for investigating their influence of wellness on one’s discipline of study or chosen profession
- Integrate interdisciplinary approaches for determining the impact contemporary issues in healthcare systems have on modern society
- Recommend potential applications of strategies for monitoring and enhancing personal and public wellness
- Assess cultural and social attitudes, choices, and behaviors for their implications to lifelong health and wellness through the incorporation of diverse perspectives and viewpoints informed by relevant literature and peer experiences
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Prompt
For the first part of this project, you will select a specific issue or event in wellness and critically analyze it through the four general education lenses: history, humanities, social sciences, and natural and applied sciences. Through viewing the issue or event through these lenses, you will gain insight into how the interconnected nature of wellness affects society as well as both your framework of perception and the choices, attitudes and behaviors of others in the world around you. You will compile your analyses within a portfolio that will include an analysis of each lens, plus introduction and conclusion paragraphs. Altogether, this portfolio should be 6 to 8 pages long, not counting references. Within your portfolio, each analysis should be 3 to 5 paragraphs long. Be sure to support your analyses with appropriate and relevant evidence from theory and research.
Overview
In this activity, you will select an issue or event in wellness and explore it through the four general education interdisciplinary lenses. By viewing the issue/event through these lenses, you will gain insight into how the interconnected nature of wellness affects society. The four general education interdisciplinary lenses are history, humanities, natural and applied sciences, and social science.
- History is the study of the past and its connection to the present. It encompasses content, memories, and events situated in time.
- Humanities is the study of cultures’ creative expression and contemplates metaphor, experience, and meaning.
- Natural and applied sciences study the material world grounded in the scientific method.
- Social sciences study human relationships and social structures grounded in demographic and statistic measurements.
When we look at an event in our lives, we often jump between different frameworks to make sense of it. For instance, if we attend a music concert we might move from an artistic lens (How did they create the musical score?) to a technical lens (How does all the lighting work?) to a financial lens (How much money do the performers earn?). Similarly, looking through the general education interdisciplinary lenses can help us see things from other perspectives by giving us a conscious way to analyze them, helping to broaden our perspective.
This assignment prepares you to choose a topic and lens for your project by first applying all four lenses. Before completing this activity, review the Project Guidelines and Rubric to know exactly what you will be working on. You may still change your choice of topic until the next module.
Directions
For this activity, you will write a short paper on a wellness topic of your choice. It could be a topic related to wellness that you have personally experienced or that you are interested in knowing more about. Review the module resources and visit the IDS 402 Library Guide for guidance on selecting and narrowing a topic. After selecting your topic, do some preliminary research to make sure you can address the required elements of your project.
In your paper, you must apply each lens to your topic by using its language and perspectives. You are not required to answer each item below the rubric criteria but may use them to better understand the criteria and guide your thinking and writing.
Specifically, you must address the following rubric criteria:
- Describe your existing knowledge about your topic in wellness.
- You might describe your personal experience with the topic, what you learned in school, or what your assumptions are about the topic. Ask, what do I know (or think I know)?
- Apply the history lens to your topic.
- Using the language of history as it is defined in your resources and academic journals, how would you write about your topic? What events and dates have occurred that are important to your topic? Has the significance of the topic diminished or shifted with time? Who are the authors of the historical record(s) related to your topic?
- Apply the humanities lens to your topic.
- Using the language of the humanities as it is defined in your resources, and as it is used in humanities-focused journals, how would you write about your topic? What meaning does your topic have within cultures? How do people express themselves with regards to your topic? What are people’s lived experiences with your topic?
- Apply the natural and applied sciences lens to your topic.
- Using the language of the natural and applied sciences as it is defined in your resources, and as it is used in natural and applied sciences–focused journals, how would you write about your topic? How might the scientific method be used to examine some aspect of your topic? How might your topic relate to the physical or material world? Are there any challenges to viewing your topic objectively?
- Apply the social science lens to your topic.
- Using the language of the social sciences as it is defined in your resources, and as it is used in social science–focused journals, how would you write about your topic? Who is affected by your topic? How might your topic affect interpersonal relationships? What social structures and systems relate to your topic?
What to Submit
Submit your short paper as a 1- to 2-page Microsoft Word document with double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, and one-inch margins. Sources should be cited according to APA style. Consult the Shapiro Library APA Style Guide for more information on citations.
| Criteria | Proficient (100%) | Needs Improvement (75%) | Not Evident (0%) | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Existing Knowledge | Describes existing knowledge about the topic in wellness | Shows progress toward proficiency, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include providing greater detail about existing knowledge | Does not attempt criterion | 15 |
| History Lens | Applies the history lens to the topic | Shows progress toward proficiency, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include applying more specific elements of the history lens to the topic or providing greater support of this application | Does not attempt criterion | 20 |
| Humanities Lens | Applies the humanities lens to the topic | Shows progress toward proficiency, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include applying more specific elements of the humanities lens to the topic or providing greater support of this application | Does not attempt criterion | 20 |
| Natural and Applied Sciences Lens | Applies the natural and applied sciences lens to the topic | Shows progress toward proficiency, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include applying more specific elements of the natural and applied sciences lens to the topic or providing greater support of this application | Does not attempt criterion | 20 |
| Social Science Lens | Applies the social science lens to the topic | Shows progress toward proficiency, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include applying more specific elements of the social science lens to the topic or providing greater support of this application | Does not attempt criterion | 20 |
| Articulation of Response | Clearly conveys meaning with correct grammar, sentence structure, and spelling, demonstrating an understanding of audience and purpose | Shows progress toward proficiency, but with errors in grammar, sentence structure, and spelling, negatively impacting readability | Submission has critical errors in grammar, sentence structure, and spelling, preventing understanding of ideas | 5 |
| Total: | 100% | |||
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