PSYC3540 Culture, Ethnicity, and Diversity
Week 2 Assignment
Overview
In this assignment, you apply a theory or concept to a video. This will help you learn to apply psychological theories and concepts to real life, situations, and resources. You'll build on this skill in your future assignments in this and other courses.
Preparation
If you haven't already, before completing the worksheet, watch either of the following two videos:
Frontline (Producer). (1985). A class divided [Video].
This video discusses the famous blue eyes/brown eyes exercise developed by schoolteacher Jane Elliot in the aftermath of the Martin Luther King Jr. assassination in 1968.
Morris, S. (Producer). (2013). White like me: Race, racism & white privilege in America [Video].
This video features Tim Wise, an acclaimed author and anti-racist educator who presents a riveting talk on how race, racism, and white privilege continues to shape the landscape of U.S. society.
Review the Theories Application Worksheet [DOCX], which you'll need to complete for this assignment. Submit this worksheet for grading.
Review Riverbend City: Theories Application Practice. Your answers in the media piece will help you with this assignment. This activity is for your practice, and you will not submit this for grading.
Instructions
Using the Theories Application Worksheet to complete the following:
Summarize the concept or theory.
Apply the theory and research to real life.
Describe the elements of the video that relate to theory and research.
Apply the theory and research to the video.
Include APA intext citations and references for all sources.
Submission Requirements
Submit the completed worksheet as your deliverable for the assignment.
By successfully completing this assignment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and scoring guide criteria:
Competency 1: Describe the effects of culture, ethnicity, and diversity on the human experience.
Describe elements of a video that relate to theory and research.
Competency 2: Apply psychological theories to issues affecting culture, ethnicity, and diversity.
Summarize a psychological theory or concept related to diversity.
Apply a psychological theory or concept to the contents of a video.
Competency 4: Apply psychological theory and research in culture, ethnicity, and diversity to inform personal and professional behavior.
Apply psychological theory and concepts to real-world applications.
Competency 5: Communicate in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and consistent with expectations for professionals in the field of psychology.
Write coherently to support a central idea with correct grammar, usage, and mechanics.
Cite all sources with author and year for each.
Provide references for all sources, including author, year, and title.
PSYC3540 Culture, Ethnicity, and Diversity
Week 5 Assignment
IMPLICIT BIAS WORKSHEET
Overview
In this worksheet, you examine potential causes of implicit biases in human interactions that occurred in real-life situations, consider how awareness of implicit biases can shape personal or professional behavior, and examine ways to prevent implicit biases through recommended strategies that are supported by scholarly research.
Preparation
If you haven't already:
View the PSYC3540 Implicit Bias Worksheet [DOCX] to preview the requirements of the worksheet.
Read Implicit Bias Assessment Preparation [PDF] to understand more about the topic of implicit bias and chapter information that will be of benefit to you in completing the assignment.
Review Chapters 2 and 4 in Understanding the Psychology of Diversity.
Complete the Activity: Implicit Bias Exercise.
Instructions
Use the PSYC3540 Implicit Bias Worksheet to complete the following:
Explain a possible cause of implicit bias in a work situation or in a media source.
Explain a possible cause of implicit bias in a personal situation.
Explain how insight about personal implicit bias can assist in changing or shaping personal or professional behavior for the future.
Apply professional or scholarly information to support strategies to prevent implicit bias.
Write coherently with only minor errors in grammar, usage, and mechanics.
Cite all sources with author and year for each source.
Provide references for all sources, including author, year, and title for each source.
Additional Requirements
Cite a minimum of two professional and scholarly sources. You will need to cite our Blaine and Benchley textbook or another professional or scholarly source for concepts related to implicit biases. You will need to cite at least one scholarly journal article for interventions on working with implicit biases.
Submission Requirements
Submit your completed PSYC3540 Implicit Bias Worksheet as your deliverable for this assignment.
Check to ensure that you have completed each of the boxes on the worksheet, and that you have provided in-text citations and matching full references for each of your sources.
By successfully completing this assignment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and scoring guide criteria:
Competency 2: Apply psychological theories to issues affecting culture, ethnicity, and diversity.
Explain a possible cause of implicit bias in a work situation or media source.
Explain a possible cause of implicit bias in a personal situation.
Competency 3: Analyze psychological research findings related to culture, ethnicity, and diversity.
Apply professional or scholarly information to support strategies to prevent implicit bias.
Competency 4: Apply psychological theory and research in culture, ethnicity, and diversity to inform personal and professional behavior.
Explain how insight about personal implicit bias can assist in changing or shaping personal or professional behavior for the future.
Competency 5: Communicate in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and consistent with expectations for professionals in the field of psychology.
Write coherently with only minor errors in grammar, usage, and mechanics.
Cite all sources with author and year for each source.
Provide references for all sources, including author, year, and title for each source.
PSYC3540 Culture, Ethnicity, and Diversity
Week 7 Assignment
CONTROVERSIAL TOPIC POSITION PAPER
Overview
This activity gives you practice building arguments, counterarguments, and rebuttals—skills you'll need for your following assignment. In the field of psychology, just about everything is controversial, and you'll need to develop your ability to look at things from multiple perspectives. This activity is an example of how we can apply critical thinking.
Preparation
For this assignment, you will choose one of the four following controversial topics and write a position paper of 4–5 content pages (plus a title page and references page) that answers the question posed by the title.
Do we need a common identity?
Is racial profiling defensible public policy?
Is the emphasis on a color-blind society an answer to racism?
Is gentrification another form of segregation?
If you haven't yet:
Review the Issues Summary [PDF] to help you select your topic.
Review the Riverbend City: Arguments, Counterarguments, and Rebuttals. Your answers in the media piece will help you with this assignment.
Review the media piece about how to define what constitutes Reliable Evidence.
Review the Activity: Controversial Topic Preparation.
Review the Culture, Ethnicity, and Diversity Library Guide. This guide was created to provide tips for this assignment.
Resources
For your paper, use five sources. You may choose two of your five resources required for the assignment from the list below. Find your topic below and review the articles related to your topic.
Do we need a common national identity?
Miller, D., & Ali, S. (2014). Testing the national identity argument. Political Science Review, 6(2), 237–259.
Schildkraut, D.J., Boundaries of American identity: Evolving understandings of “Us”. Annual Review of Political Science, 17, 441–460.
Is racial profiling defensible public policy?
Coleman, M. & Kocher, A. (2019). Rethinking the “Gold Standard” of Racial Profiling: §287(g), Secure communities and racially discrepant police power. American Behavioral Scientist, 63(9),1185–1220.
Dizon, J.P.M. (2021). Protecting the university, policing race: A case study of campus policing. Journal of Diversity in Higher Education.
Is the emphasis on a color-blind society an answer to racism?
Mekawi, Y., Todd, N. R., Yi, J., & Blevins, E. J. (2020). Distinguishing 'I don’t see color’ from “Racism is a thing of the past”: Psychological correlates of avoiding race and denying racism. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 67(3), 288–302.
Yi, J., Todd, N. R., & Mekawi, Y. (2020). Racial colorblindness and confidence in and likelihood of action to address prejudice. American Journal of Community Psychology, 65(3/4), 407–422.
Is gentrification another form of segregation?
Hwang, J., & Ding, L. (2020). Unequal displacement: Gentrification, racial stratification, and residential destinations in Philadelphia. American Journal of Sociology, 126(2), 354–406.
Krings, A., & Schusler, T. M. (2020). Equity in sustainable development: Community responses to environmental gentrification. International Journal of Social Welfare, 29(4), 321–334.
Mordechay, K., Ayscue, J. B., & Civil Rights Project, P. D. C. C. for C. R. R. (CCRR). (2019). School integration in gentrifying neighborhoods: Evidence from New York City. In Civil Rights Project - Proyecto Derechos Civiles. Civil Rights Project - Proyecto Derechos Civiles.
Instructions
Using the Capella library and other appropriate sources, explore scholarly research on both sides of your selected issue.
Organize your paper as follows:
Title page.
Introduction.
Your position and arguments.
Evidence to support your arguments (i.e., data and research), including how the evidence supports the arguments.
Counterarguments to your position.
Rebuttals to those counterarguments.
Evidence to support your rebuttals (i.e., data and research), including how the evidence supports the rebuttals.
Summary and Conclusion.
References.
This APA Paper Template [DOCX] is provided for your convenience.
Additional Requirements
Remember that the content of your paper must be 4–5 pages in length.
In addition to the essay, use a minimum of five resources, at least two of which are peer-reviewed academic articles.
Follow APA style and formatting guidelines throughout.
Set your paper in Times New Roman, 12 point.
Review the scoring guide before submitting your assignment to ensure that you meet all criteria. Refer to the helpful links in Resources as you complete your assignment.
You are encouraged to save this assignment to your ePortfolio.
By successfully completing this assignment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and scoring guide criteria:
Competency 1: Describe the effects of culture, ethnicity, and diversity on the human experience.
Describe a controversial topic and key current issues related to the topic.
Competency 2: Apply psychological theories to issues affecting culture, ethnicity, and diversity.
Apply psychological theories or research in culture, ethnicity, and diversity to support counterarguments to a stated position.
Competency 3: Analyze psychological research findings related to culture, ethnicity, and diversity.
Apply psychological theories or research in culture, ethnicity, and diversity to support rebuttals to stated counterarguments.
Assess the strength of the original position using psychological theories or research in culture, ethnicity, and diversity to support stated views.
Competency 4: Apply psychological theory and research in culture, ethnicity, and diversity to inform personal and professional behavior.
Apply psychological theories or research in culture, ethnicity, and diversity to a position on a topic.
Competency 5: Communicate in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and consistent with expectations for professionals in the field of psychology.
Write coherently to support a central idea with correct grammar, usage, and mechanics.
Cite all sources with author and year for each source.
Provide references for all sources, including author, year, and title.
PSYC3540 Culture, Ethnicity, and Diversity
Week 9 Assignment
DIVERSITY PRESENTATION
Overview
We have reviewed several theories related to culture, ethnicity, and diversity. This final assignment requires you to develop a presentation on a diversity topic of your choice that could ultimately be used as a basis for a staff development session.
Instructions
You may determine the work setting for your presentation, such as educational institutions, businesses, nonprofit organizations, hospitals, or mental health care facilities. After selecting the presentation setting, choose your topic that may include any area covered in this course.
Sample topics:
Racial stereotypes and racism (select one racial or ethnic group).
Immigration.
Religion and spirituality.
Gender stereotypes and sexism.
Sexual orientation and heterosexism.
Age stereotypes and ageism.
Mental disabilities.
Physical disabilities.
Other topic of your choice related to culture, ethnicity, and diversity.
Note: if you choose this option, you must get instructor approval.
Using the course readings and other scholarly literature as a basis, develop a presentation on the topic of your choice using PowerPoint, Prezi, or other courseroom-compatible format as follows:
Part 1
Provide an overview of the topic that includes areas that will be covered in the presentation, a brief description of the population or social group you chose, and key definitions and terms.
Part 2
The body of the presentation should include the following:
Strengths and other positive aspects of being a member of the social group or population.
Challenges faced by members of this group. Issues related to categorization and stereotyping, prejudice, discrimination, and social stigma should be incorporated.
Part 3
Conclude with possible solutions to help combat the challenges faced and/or strategies to support the social group or population.
The following guide may be used to organize your presentation:
Slide 1: Title (APA style).
Slide 2: Presentation overview/outline.
Slides 3 and 4: Description of population or social group.
Slides 5 and 6: Definitions and terms.
Slides 7 and 8: Strengths and other positive aspects of population or social group.
Slides 9–12: Challenges faced by population or social group (categorization and stereotyping, prejudice, discrimination, and social stigma).
Slides 13–16: Solutions and supportive strategies/Conclusion.
Slide 17: References.
Note that the length of your presentation should be 10–15 content slides of bulleted talking points as well as appropriate supporting graphics on select slides. You must include expanded details that elaborate on the slides using the notes section of the slide presentation. Please remember to use course readings and other scholarly sources to support your work.
Example assignment: You may use the Diversity Assignment Example [PPTX] to give you an idea of what a Proficient or higher rating on the scoring guide would look like.
Additional Requirements
Include a minimum of three scholarly resources published within the last five years.
Include presenter's notes for each content slide.
Follow APA style and formatting guidelines on your references slide.
You are encouraged to save your final presentation in your ePortfolio.
Note: If you include audio or video clips in your presentation, you must ensure that your presentation is accessible to all by providing a transcript of any recorded material with your assignment. For more information, visit Capella's Disability Services page on Campus or e-mail DisabilityServices@Capella.edu.
By successfully completing this assignment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and scoring guide criteria:
Competency 1: Describe the effects of culture, ethnicity, and diversity on the human experience.
Describe the strengths and other positive aspects of a social group with references to professional or scholarly literature.
Competency 3: Analyze psychological research findings related to culture, ethnicity, and diversity.
Analyze the challenges faced by a social group with references to professional or scholarly literature.
Analyze solutions and supportive strategies to help combat challenges faced by a social group with references to professional or scholarly literature.
Competency 5: Communicate in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and consistent with expectations for professionals in the field of psychology.
Describe a presentation in an overview including title, outline, population, and key terms.
Create a presentation that articulates a central idea relevant to the scope and purpose of the prompt with few errors in grammar and mechanics.
Cite all sources with author and year for each source.
Provide references for all sources, including author, year, and title.
