For the memo, you should imagine that you are a state or city government policy advisor.  Your governor or city mayor needs your boss to brief them on a critical problem facing your community

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Policy Memo Topic Proposal
No due date was set by the instructor.
Assignment Details
Open Date Apr 2, 2018 10:52 AM
Graded? No
Resubmissions Allowed? No
Assignment Instructions
Instead of a final exam, this course has a policy memo due in Week 8.  I want to help shape your work and scope your research.  Please submit a short (no more than 250 word) summary of your policy memo topic during Week 4 of class.  
For the memo, you should imagine that you are a state or city government policy advisor.  Your governor or city mayor needs your boss to brief them on a critical problem facing your community.  You need to develop a memo that will help your boss “get smart” on the problem and come up with some potential solutions.  It is important to select a topic that is very specific.  As an example, selecting “education reform” is too general.  However, looking at whether your community should expand charter schools or accept new testing standards is better scoped.  This specificity will help with your research too.
The full memo requirements are under the Assignments Tab along with a memo template plus the grading rubric to the assignment.  

Assignment One: Health and the media

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Assignment One: Health and the media
Due: 11:55pm ET Sunday Week 2
Overview
The media plays an important role in providing information for the public. In terms of health, social media, documentaries, and other news sources can provide health education to those without access to health education and information, or supplement the education and information that people have access to. The purpose of this assignment is for us to examine a health focused documentary, identify the agenda of the fimmakers, evaluate the quality of the sources used in the film, and describe the positive and/or negative role that media can play in health education.
Please see the attached sample assignment for additional guidance.
Instructions
Construct a 3-4 page paper that explores each of these three areas:
Identifies a documentary focused on a major health issue
Summarizes the agenda of the documentary, providing sociological relevance
Evaluates the quality and credibility of the sources used in the documentary
Describes the role that popular media, and increased access to documentaries can play in educating the public about major health issues. Identify both strengths and challenges.
Need documentary ideas? Here are a few:
Supersize Me, 2004
Sicko, 2007
The Meth Epidemic, 2006
The Deadly Deception, 1993
Sick Around the World, 2008
Generation Rx, 2008
The Business of Being Born, 2008
Food, Inc, 2008
The paper should be typed, double-spaced, 1” margins, arial or times new roman 11 pt font, and saved as .doc. The paper should be in APA format (cover page, running header, major heading, subheadings, in-text citations, and reference list),
Late Policy:
See the Syllabus for the late policy.
Disclaimer
Originality of attachments will be verified by Turnitin. Both you and your instructor will receive the results.

Assignment two: Sociological application

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Assignment two: Sociological application
Due: 11:55pm ET Sunday Week 4
Overview
One of the most important things we can do in this course is distinguish between the sociological viewpoint toward health and illness and strictly clinical or medical viewpoints toward health and illness. For example, it is crucial that we understand how sociology incorporates issues of race, class, gender, language, and so forth into the analysis of health and illness outcomes in society. The purpose of this assignment is for us to examine the definition of the sociological viewpoint toward health and illness, and utilize major concepts from our reading material to support this response.
Instructions
Construct a 4-6 page paper that fully explores each of these three areas:
Identify and describe a current and major health issue that is a leading cause of mortality in the U.S. or overseas.
Explain the medical viewpoint of this health issue.
Explain the sociological viewpoint of this health issue.
Use two peer-reviewed sources (none that are provided in class) to support your explanation of how the sociological viewpoint applies to this health issue.
Compare and contrast the strengths and weaknesses that each approach in resolving this health issue, or reducing mortality.
The paper should be typed, double-spaced, 1” margins, arial or times new roman 11 pt font, and saved as .doc. The paper should be in APA format (cover page, running header, major heading, subheadings, in-text citations, and reference list),
The attached sample assignment provides additional guidance.
Late Policy:
See the Syllabus for the late policy.
Disclaimer
Originality of attachments will be verified by Turnitin. Both you and your instructor will receive the results.

Describe how the theory affects an individual’s personality.

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Evolutionary personality theory focuses on the why of behavior, rather than the how of biological models, or the what of descriptive taxonomies. It is “best regarded as a theory about the origins, rather than the content of human nature. It has been described as providing a grand framework that “links the field with what is known about the processes that govern all forms of life [and identifies] the central human goals and the psychological and behavioral strategic means deployed to obtain these goals. Evolutionary psychology is simply psychology that is informed by the additional knowledge that evolutionary biology has to offer, in the expectation that understanding the process that designed the human mind will advance the discovery of its architecture.
Create a 10- to 12-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation, with detailed speaker notes, on the strengths and limitations of the assigned theory in explaining individuals’ behavior. Address the following:
• Describe how the theory affects an individual’s personality.
• Explain how the theory influences interpersonal relationships.
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