TOPICS IN CULTRAL STUDIES
QueenSDHOMEWORK #1
NO DELIVERABLE LENGTH REQUIREMENT
JUST ANSWER ALL THE QUESTIONS!
The Discussion Board (DB) is part of the core of online learning. Classroom discussion in an online environment requires the active participation of students and the instructor to create robust interaction and dialogue. Every student is expected to create an original response to the open-ended DB question as well as engage in dialogue by responding to posts created by others throughout the week. At the end of each unit, DB participation will be assessed based on both level of engagement and the quality of the contribution to the discussion.
At a minimum, each student will be expected to post an original and thoughtful response to the DB question and contribute to the weekly dialogue by responding to at least two other posts from students. The first contribution must be posted before midnight (Central Time) on Wednesday of each week. Two additional responses are required after Wednesday of each week. Students are highly encouraged to engage on the Discussion Board early and often, as that is the primary way the university tracks class attendance and participation.
The purpose of the Discussion Board is to allow students to learn through sharing ideas and experiences as they relate to course content and the DB question. Because it is not possible to engage in two-way dialogue after a conversation has ended, no posts to the DB will be accepted after the end of each unit.
Focus your discussion on the following:
· Of the various aspects of the humanities—history, music, religion, literature, art, architecture, and so on—with which aspect do you associate most?
· What do you think helps define you as a person and place you within a culture?
· What does it mean to you to be part of a culture?
· How do your ideas compare with the ideas of others in the group?
· Review the definition of the humanities as fashioned in the U.S. legislation forming the National Endowment for the Humanities.
· What subjects are not included in the definition of the humanities? Why?
For assistance with your assignment, please use your text, Web resources, and all course materials.
Purpose of Assignment and Content Development |
Demonstrates an outstanding use of appropriate, relevant, and compelling content with excellent expression of topic, main idea, and purpose. Demonstrates exemplary knowledge or analysis of human perspectives appropriate to the assignment’s purpose and context. Graphics accurately reflect the assignment requirements. |
30% |
Critical Thinking |
Demonstrates outstanding or exemplary ability to analyze assumptions and evaluate evidence, complexities of issues, and alternatives. Where required, demonstrates outstanding or exemplary ability to use creativity and originality in problem-solving. |
30% |
Organization, Grammar and Presentation (Including Information Literacy) |
Organization is clear. Language clearly and effectively communicates ideas and content relevant to the assignment. Presentation and delivery are confident and persuasive (where applicable). Audience, style, tone, and perspective are consistent and appropriate to assignment. Few if any errors in grammar, spelling, and sentence structure. Demonstrates outstanding selection and use of high quality, credible, and relevant sources to develop ideas that are appropriate to the assignment. Sources are consistently cited according to required style sheet (e.g., APA), with no errors beyond punctuation. Manuscript style is completely correct, according to style sheet guidelines. |
25% |
Interactive Participation |
Demonstrate active interaction and participation throughout the week and substantive responses to at least 2 posts in addition to posting the DB assignment post. |
15% |
HOMEWORK #2
NO DELIVERABLE LENGTH REQUIREMENT
JUST ANSWER ALL THE QUESTIONS!
The Discussion Board (DB) is part of the core of online learning. Classroom discussion in an online environment requires the active participation of students and the instructor to create robust interaction and dialogue. Every student is expected to create an original response to the open-ended DB question as well as engage in dialogue by responding to posts created by others throughout the week. At the end of each unit, DB participation will be assessed based on both level of engagement and the quality of the contribution to the discussion.
At a minimum, each student will be expected to post an original and thoughtful response to the DB question and contribute to the weekly dialogue by responding to at least two other posts from students. The first contribution must be posted before midnight (Central Time) on Wednesday of each week. Two additional responses are required after Wednesday of each week. Students are highly encouraged to engage on the Discussion Board early and often, as that is the primary way the university tracks class attendance and participation.
The purpose of the Discussion Board is to allow students to learn through sharing ideas and experiences as they relate to course content and the DB question. Because it is not possible to engage in two-way dialogue after a conversation has ended, no posts to the DB will be accepted after the end of each unit.
Focus your discussion on the following:
· Do you live in a city, the suburbs, or the country? Why do you think you made that decision?
· How does a person’s view of social culture and grouping affect his or her relations with other people?
· Discuss the ways in which this view of culture affects your world view.
· How does choice of location affect your other cultural choices such as music, art, dance, theater, pastimes, hobbies, or social groups?
· A business can be one person, two people, five people, or thousands of people. Based on your research, select an international business.
· How does the business operate as a single social group? What are some ways in which businesses subdivide large groups, and why do you think that is necessary?
· Pick a business organization, and discuss the evidence you have that it has an internal tribal culture, including social groupings, significant symbols, rituals, and even its own form of art and architecture?
· Compare and contrast your findings with the findings of your other class members. Discuss the ways in which the class approaches the discussion of the topic from different perspectives.
For assistance with your assignment, please use your text, Web resources, and all course materials.
Grading Rubric
Purpose of Assignment and Content Development |
Demonstrates an outstanding use of appropriate, relevant, and compelling content with excellent expression of topic, main idea, and purpose. Demonstrates exemplary knowledge or analysis of human perspectives appropriate to the assignment’s purpose and context. Graphics accurately reflect the assignment requirements. |
30% |
Critical Thinking |
Demonstrates outstanding or exemplary ability to analyze assumptions and evaluate evidence, complexities of issues, and alternatives. Where required, demonstrates outstanding or exemplary ability to use creativity and originality in problem-solving. |
30% |
Organization, Grammar and Presentation (Including Information Literacy) |
Organization is clear. Language clearly and effectively communicates ideas and content relevant to the assignment. Presentation and delivery are confident and persuasive (where applicable). Audience, style, tone, and perspective are consistent and appropriate to assignment. Few if any errors in grammar, spelling, and sentence structure. Demonstrates outstanding selection and use of high quality, credible, and relevant sources to develop ideas that are appropriate to the assignment. Sources are consistently cited according to required style sheet (e.g., APA), with no errors beyond punctuation. Manuscript style is completely correct, according to style sheet guidelines. |
25% |
Interactive Participation |
Demonstrate active interaction and participation throughout the week and substantive responses to at least 2 posts in addition to posting the DB assignment post. |
15% |
HOMEWORK #3
Deliverable Length: 12-15 slides
As a senior manager in a medium-sized but highly profitable equipment manufacturing organization, you and other senior leaders have decided to partner with another company on several projects of mutual interest. Your company has the financial strength and market strength to join the partnership, and you have negotiated a tentative agreement with the other company. Your company is in Houston, Texas, in the United States, but the company you are partnering with is in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The other company has some very valuable products and customers, it has an experienced workforce, and it has great brand recognition.
What are some of the cultural areas that you need to know more about before you make the partnership of the companies happen? Specifically, what might the comparison and contrasts be in language, religion, forms of address, holidays, other time off, dress, and food? Research the culture, with particular focus on the business culture, and determine what cultural areas you must address to build a strong working partnership, and discuss how you will address each of them.
Present your ideas in a set of PowerPoint slides intended as a summary for your company managers. Use the Notes area of PowerPoint for your narrative textual information, with restricted use of text on the slides themselves. Review PowerPoint guidelines if you are not sure of the recommended way to set up the slides. Also refer to the PowerPoint Lab in the Learning Center, if needed.
You should use APA reference and citation format for the sources that you use to support your explanation and argument. Place citations on the relevant slides with one or two slides at the end for your reference list.
For assistance with your assignment, please use your text, Web resources, and all course materials.
Please submit your assignment.
Grading Rubric
Purpose of Assignment and Content Development |
Demonstrates an outstanding use of appropriate, relevant, and compelling content with excellent expression of topic, main idea, and purpose. Demonstrates exemplary knowledge or analysis of human perspectives appropriate to the assignment’s purpose and context. Graphics accurately reflect the assignment requirements. |
30% |
Organization, Grammar, and Presentation |
Organization is clear. Language clearly and effectively communicates ideas and content relevant to the assignment. Presentation and delivery are confident and persuasive (where applicable). Audience, style, tone, and perspective are consistent and appropriate to assignment. Format is consistently appropriate to assignment, and follows assignment requirements. Few if any errors in grammar, spelling, and sentence structure. |
30% |
Information Literacy and Research |
Demonstrates outstanding selection and use of high quality, credible, and relevant sources to develop ideas that are appropriate to the assignment. Sources are consistently cited according to required style sheet (e.g., APA), with no errors beyond punctuation. Manuscript style is completely correct, according to style sheet guidelines. |
5% |
Critical Thinking |
Demonstrates outstanding or exemplary ability to analyze assumptions and evaluate evidence, complexities of issues, and alternatives. Where required, demonstrates outstanding or exemplary ability to use creativity and originality in problem solving. |
35% |
HOMEWORK #4
3-4 double-spaced pages, not including cover page and reference page
Select a country from the following list, and do some research into both the political history and the religious history of the country:
· Japan
· North Korea
· Iraq
· Syria
· Afghanistan
· Egypt
Write an essay in which you complete the following:
· Explain the general evolutionary lines of both the governmental and religious cultural histories of the country, giving probable reasons for evolutionary trends that you see.
· Analyze the ways in which the two lines of cultural tradition—government and religion—interact with each other. What influence does one have over the other?
· Discuss the significance of religion and government on other characteristics of the country’s culture.
· What influences and impacts do you see on the overall culture, both social and business, of the religious and political interactions?
· What have been the primary influences on the people and their culture?
· How do you think recent events affecting the people of the country have their roots in what you have learned about historical cultural trends in religion and government?
It is not necessary to follow APA document format, but you must use APA reference and citation format, for the sources you use to support your explanations and arguments.
For assistance with your assignment, please use your text, Web resources, and all course materials.
Please submit your assignment.
Grading Rubric
Purpose of Assignment and Content Development |
Demonstrates an outstanding use of appropriate, relevant, and compelling content with excellent expression of topic, main idea, and purpose. Demonstrates exemplary knowledge or analysis of human perspectives appropriate to the assignment’s purpose and context. Graphics accurately reflect the assignment requirements. |
30% |
Organization, Grammar, and Presentation |
Organization is clear. Language clearly and effectively communicates ideas and content relevant to the assignment. Presentation and delivery are confident and persuasive (where applicable). Audience, style, tone, and perspective are consistent and appropriate to assignment. Format is consistently appropriate to assignment, and follows assignment requirements. Few if any errors in grammar, spelling, and sentence structure. |
30% |
Information Literacy and Research |
Demonstrates outstanding selection and use of high quality, credible, and relevant sources to develop ideas that are appropriate to the assignment. Sources are consistently cited according to required style sheet (e.g., APA), with no errors beyond punctuation. Manuscript style is completely correct, according to style sheet guidelines. |
5% |
Critical Thinking |
Demonstrates outstanding or exemplary ability to analyze assumptions and evaluate evidence, complexities of issues, and alternatives. Where required, demonstrates outstanding or exemplary ability to use creativity and originality in problem solving. |
35% |
HOMEWORK #5
NO DELIVERABLE LENGTH REQUIREMENT
JUST ANSWER ALL THE QUESTIONS!
The Discussion Board (DB) is part of the core of online learning. Classroom discussion in an online environment requires the active participation of students and the instructor to create robust interaction and dialogue. Every student is expected to create an original response to the open-ended DB question as well as engage in dialogue by responding to posts created by others throughout the week. At the end of each unit, DB participation will be assessed based on both level of engagement and the quality of the contribution to the discussion.
At a minimum, each student will be expected to post an original and thoughtful response to the DB question and contribute to the weekly dialogue by responding to at least two other posts from students. The first contribution must be posted before midnight (Central Time) on Wednesday of each week. Two additional responses are required after Wednesday of each week. Students are highly encouraged to engage on the Discussion Board early and often, as that is the primary way the university tracks class attendance and participation.
The purpose of the Discussion Board is to allow students to learn through sharing ideas and experiences as they relate to course content and the DB question. Because it is not possible to engage in two-way dialogue after a conversation has ended, no posts to the DB will be accepted after the end of each unit.
Focus your discussion on the following:
· How important is it to commerce in a country that the people of the country have been exposed to crosscultural influences because of colonization or intercultural exchanges?
· Explain and discuss, using specific examples.
· Imagine that you are head of state of the country of Aiuniv, which is located on a small continent in the South Pacific. The country is about the size and geography of Texas, and it has a border with the ocean and another border with a country of the same size and geography.
· What cultural tools might you use to maintain the historical traditions of your country?
· How might you keep out some foreign influence while accepting other outside cultural influences?
· What have real countries done to deliberately influence interaction with outside cultures?
For assistance with your assignment, please use your text, Web resources, and all course materials.
Grading Rubric
Purpose of Assignment and Content Development |
Demonstrates an outstanding use of appropriate, relevant, and compelling content with excellent expression of topic, main idea, and purpose. Demonstrates exemplary knowledge or analysis of human perspectives appropriate to the assignment’s purpose and context. Graphics accurately reflect the assignment requirements. |
30% |
Critical Thinking |
Demonstrates outstanding or exemplary ability to analyze assumptions and evaluate evidence, complexities of issues, and alternatives. Where required, demonstrates outstanding or exemplary ability to use creativity and originality in problem-solving. |
30% |
Organization, Grammar and Presentation (Including Information Literacy) |
Organization is clear. Language clearly and effectively communicates ideas and content relevant to the assignment. Presentation and delivery are confident and persuasive (where applicable). Audience, style, tone, and perspective are consistent and appropriate to assignment. Few if any errors in grammar, spelling, and sentence structure. Demonstrates outstanding selection and use of high quality, credible, and relevant sources to develop ideas that are appropriate to the assignment. Sources are consistently cited according to required style sheet (e.g., APA), with no errors beyond punctuation. Manuscript style is completely correct, according to style sheet guidelines. |
25% |
Interactive Participation |
Demonstrate active interaction and participation throughout the week and substantive responses to at least 2 posts in addition to posting the DB assignment post. |
15% |
HOMEWORK #6
Deliverable Length: 12-15 slides
Assignment Details
Consider the company that you are working for or another company with which you are familiar. What is one of the primary symbols or cultural artifacts that employees would recognize (not a customer marketing logo or slogan)? Answer the following questions about the culture of the company:
· What makes the symbol or cultural artifact so powerful as a representative icon of the company?
· Why does it function so well to illustrate the culture of the company?
· What does it really mean, or what purpose does it serve versus the way that it functions symbolically? Does the icon have more than one meaning?
· How did the organization or someone in the organization deliberately create the symbol as a rallying point or idea for the employees?
· What other symbols or practices of the company represent the nature of the company or how people remember the company, its traditions, or its processes and procedures?
· How far back in the history of the organization do you think that these symbols extend?
· How do these symbols, practices, traditions, and even corporate myths serve to help create an overall culture of the company?
· How would you describe the culture, in general, of this organization?
Prepare a PowerPoint presentation of 10–12 slides to present to your fellow employees. Answer the questions posed above, in any order you choose, to provide an overview of the use of symbols in the culture of the organization. If possible, photograph, scan, or otherwise reproduce images of the icons that you are considering, and include them in the presentation.
Be sure to cite at least 3 references in APA format.
Please submit your assignment.
For assistance with your assignment, please use your text, Web resources, and all course materials.
This assignment will also be assessed using additional criteria provided here .
Grading Rubric
Purpose of Assignment and Content Development |
Demonstrates an outstanding use of appropriate, relevant, and compelling content with excellent expression of topic, main idea, and purpose. Demonstrates exemplary knowledge or analysis of human perspectives appropriate to the assignment’s purpose and context. Graphics accurately reflect the assignment requirements. |
30% |
Organization, Grammar, and Presentation |
Organization is clear. Language clearly and effectively communicates ideas and content relevant to the assignment. Presentation and delivery are confident and persuasive (where applicable). Audience, style, tone, and perspective are consistent and appropriate to assignment. Format is consistently appropriate to assignment, and follows assignment requirements. Few if any errors in grammar, spelling, and sentence structure. |
30% |
Information Literacy and Research |
Demonstrates outstanding selection and use of high quality, credible, and relevant sources to develop ideas that are appropriate to the assignment. Sources are consistently cited according to required style sheet (e.g., APA), with no errors beyond punctuation. Manuscript style is completely correct, according to style sheet guidelines. |
5% |
Critical Thinking |
Demonstrates outstanding or exemplary ability to analyze assumptions and evaluate evidence, complexities of issues, and alternatives. Where required, demonstrates outstanding or exemplary ability to use creativity and originality in problem solving. |
35% |
HOMEWORK #7
NO DELIVERABLE LENGTH REQUIREMENT
JUST ANSWER ALL THE QUESTIONS!
The Discussion Board (DB) is part of the core of online learning. Classroom discussion in an online environment requires the active participation of students and the instructor to create robust interaction and dialogue. Every student is expected to create an original response to the open-ended DB question as well as engage in dialogue by responding to posts created by others throughout the week. At the end of each unit, DB participation will be assessed based on both level of engagement and the quality of the contribution to the discussion.
At a minimum, each student will be expected to post an original and thoughtful response to the DB question and contribute to the weekly dialogue by responding to at least two other posts from students. The first contribution must be posted before midnight (Central Time) on Wednesday of each week. Two additional responses are required after Wednesday of each week. Students are highly encouraged to engage on the Discussion Board early and often, as that is the primary way the university tracks class attendance and participation.
The purpose of the Discussion Board is to allow students to learn through sharing ideas and experiences as they relate to course content and the DB question. Because it is not possible to engage in two-way dialogue after a conversation has ended, no posts to the DB will be accepted after the end of each unit.
Focus your discussion on the following:
· How confident are you that companies today take culture into proper account and balance along with other aspects of productivity? Why?
· What specific instances can you cite from experience and from academic literature? Be sure to include APA-formatted references in your response.
· What can an individual do in any of these areas (music, literature, art, theater, education, or religion) to sustain and grow a healthy and useful culture?
· What reasons do you have for doing anything?
· What is the role of the individual versus the role of government in sustaining and building a healthy and robust culture through the humanities?
· What should be the individual’s role in his or her own community and country, and what should the role be in regions outside of the home country?
· What is the role of educational institutions in shaping and encouraging specific cultural and humanities concepts alongside the emphasis on knowledge and facts?
· Which areas of the humanities should be emphasized? Why?
For assistance with your assignment, please use your text, Web resources, and all course materials.
Grading Rubric
Purpose of Assignment and Content Development |
Demonstrates an outstanding use of appropriate, relevant, and compelling content with excellent expression of topic, main idea, and purpose. Demonstrates exemplary knowledge or analysis of human perspectives appropriate to the assignment’s purpose and context. Graphics accurately reflect the assignment requirements. |
30% |
Critical Thinking |
Demonstrates outstanding or exemplary ability to analyze assumptions and evaluate evidence, complexities of issues, and alternatives. Where required, demonstrates outstanding or exemplary ability to use creativity and originality in problem-solving. |
30% |
Organization, Grammar and Presentation (Including Information Literacy) |
Organization is clear. Language clearly and effectively communicates ideas and content relevant to the assignment. Presentation and delivery are confident and persuasive (where applicable). Audience, style, tone, and perspective are consistent and appropriate to assignment. Few if any errors in grammar, spelling, and sentence structure. Demonstrates outstanding selection and use of high quality, credible, and relevant sources to develop ideas that are appropriate to the assignment. Sources are consistently cited according to required style sheet (e.g., APA), with no errors beyond punctuation. Manuscript style is completely correct, according to style sheet guidelines. |
25% |
Interactive Participation |
Demonstrate active interaction and participation throughout the week and substantive responses to at least 2 posts in addition to posting the DB assignment post. |
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