Discuss why and how the concept of CQ is relevant to you and your future personal and career goals. Discuss the results of your Cultural Intelligence Assessment. Discuss your strengths and growth areas in each of the four CQ dimensions.

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CQ Journal: CQ Assessment Reflection Assignment Instructions

Overview

Throughout the course, you will submit 4 journal entries which will guide you to reflect on your cultural intelligence (CQ) scores, set measurable goals and action steps for improving your CQ, and participate in activities and experiences which will help to practice effective intercultural communication. With CQ, there is always more to learn and room to grow, and this course is an opportunity to practice exercising each of the CQ capabilities. You can use your journal entries to track your progress through the journey of this course, but hopefully you will feel inspired to continue to develop your CQ beyond this course.

 

Instructions

Your journal entry should meet the following requirements.

Length: 400-800 words

Your journal entry should be written in paragraph form with proper grammar and spelling. Thoughts should be well-organized and cohesive.

Your journal entry should be submitted on the template provided.

 

This CQ Journal entry will focus on your CQ assessment report. You should take the assessment and download and save the report from the CQ center before completing this journal. Review your CQ report and then use the following prompt as a guide to write your journal entry. Your journal entry should include an answer to each of the major sections/headings of this prompt (in bold). The bullet points under each heading are suggestions for topics to consider.

  • Discuss why and how the concept of CQ is relevant to you and your future personal and career goals.
  • Discuss the results of your Cultural Intelligence Assessment.
  • Discuss your strengths and growth areas in each of the four CQ dimensions (Drive, Knowledge, Action, and Strategy).
  • Do you agree with your scores?
  • What surprises you about your scores.
  • What experiences, background, or present challenges might be impacting those scores?
  • Discuss the ways you will seek to increase your CQ in the next 4 weeks as we finish this course? What about over the next year?
  • How does Cultural Intelligence relate to God’s story, your story, and the global story?
  • How can you use your CQ to understand the story of others?
  • How could your CQ impact your ability to share God’s story across cultural boundaries?

Note: Your assignment will be checked for originality via the Turnitin plagiarism tool.

Discuss some of the e-Portfolios above. Which ones stood out, and why? Which ones did not stand out, and why? Which ones would you like to imitate? How can you make yours even better than theirs?

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Portfolios

In this week’s discussion, you will post two pages of your final portfolio: Your introductory page* and your revised Professional Philosophy Statement from Week 2. You will then review the e-Portfolios of students from other institutions e-Portfolios. Reply to two peers.

The following Portfolios were created outside the Blackboard platform, but they are a good example of the content and tone you may consider for your e-Portfolio. Consider which stand out to you and what would you like to imitate. Note: Some use Wix, a platform you may also use for your e-Portfolio

  • http://hannahlynnes.wixsite.com/hannahsims – Nursing
  • http://patiencemarsh.wixsite.com/portfolio – Hospitality Management
  • https://portfolium.com/EdwardLiu89 – Computer Science
  • https://yunalee.weebly.com/index.html – Nutrition
  • http://wsenn0.wixsite.com/wsennportfolio – Health Sciences
  • https://lagcc-cuny.digication.com/george_donald_ep_scholars_fall2014/AboutMe/ – Accounting

Complete both parts in the same post.

Part 1: Discuss some of the e-Portfolios above. Which ones stood out, and why? Which ones did not stand out, and why? Which ones would you like to imitate? How can you make yours even better than theirs?

Part 2: Post two artifacts  from your e-Portfolio in progress.

Introduction*: The first page of your Final Portfolio is an introduction to the readers. It should provide an overview of your professional goals  and the path you have set to lead you to success. It can also include as much  personal information as you care to share.

Revised Professional Philosophy Statement*: This was drafted in Week 1. You should review the feedback you received, revise your statement based on it, and post along with your introduction.

 

 

Identify the steps you can take to effect change. How would you go about advocating for this issue or what are some advocacy strategies you would use to bring about change on this issue?

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Getting involved in advocacy can be an uncomfortable process, but it is important as professionals working with children and families that we consider being an advocate. One of the first steps in advocacy is identifying the issue(s) that you are most passionate about.

Therefore, think about your profession upon graduating from UTC (teacher, service provider, therapist), what issue(s) related to your profession are you most passionate about? And why is this important to you? (This may require some reflection on your part).

Follow the steps below in order to start the process of becoming an advocate for this issue(s).

  • Know your subject. Find out what is happening related to this issue and discuss what you have learned.
  • Network. Which professional organization could you join that would have individuals who are also interested in this issue? Explain how joining this organization would be beneficial to your issue. You may not find the perfect organization for your issue, find the one that you believe would be most helpful.
  • Develop an action plan. Identify the steps you can take to effect change. How would you go about advocating for this issue or what are some advocacy strategies you would use to bring about change on this issue?

Who/What are some community partners you can collaborate with to address this issue? If possible, identify specific community partners that can help with the issue. For example, don’t say a food bank. Research if there is a food bank in your community and talk about that specific food bank and how they are helping the community and how you could partner with them.

 

What do you think the real objection is to this text? In your answer think about the historical context we discussed, and how this culture relates to gender. Why should this book be used in a college classroom?

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Fun Home

Assignment: “Fun Home, as a college text, has experienced controversy even before the Duke students’ rejection. Last year, the South Carolina House of Representatives voted to cut funding to the College of Charleston because of its plan to place Bechdel’s book on a freshmen recommended reading list. State Representative Garry R. Smith said he believes that the memoir is inappropriate for students because it “graphically shows lesbian acts” and is “promoting the gay and lesbian lifestyle.” ”

  • Look up the response to this text.
  • What is the objection to this text?
  • Unpack this a little more. What do you think the real objection is to this text? In your answer think about the historical context we discussed, and how this culture relates to gender.
  • Why should this book be used in a college classroom?

 

What were the main changes and challenges that industrialization posed for American workers during this period? How did workers respond as they tried to defend their livelihoods in the face of these changes – and how successful were they?

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Industrial revolution

Write a 1350 words , double-spaced paper in 12-point font that responds to this prompt:

“Beginning in the 1820s and the 1830s, the industrial revolution began to transform the United States – and, in doing so, also transformed the lives of American workers. What were the main changes and challenges that industrialization posed for American workers during this period? How did workers respond as they tried to defend their livelihoods in the face of these changes – and how successful were they?”

Your main tasks in this paper are:

1) Make a clear argument in response to the questions. Based on the readings, what are your answers to these questions? Think about what your answers are, and use these answers as claims (i.e., your “argument” or “thesis”) that you state clearly and then elaborate on and explain throughout your paper, citing course readings.

2) Display your understanding of the issues asked about in the questions through elaborating on your argument. As you explain why you think what you do, you should show your understanding of issues such as the early industrial revolution, its impacts on labor and work, and ways workers responded.

3) Again, be sure to base your claims on the assigned readings, documents, and other materials covered in class (with an emphasis on the readings mentioned above). You don’t need to mention everything, but your papers must draw widely from course material, especially course readings.

You must include citations of readings and lectures (you can use footnotes, endnotes, or parenthesis – whatever you prefer, as long as I know where you’re getting your information).

https://web.archive.org/web/20190208163530/http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6382/

https://philadelphiaencyclopedia.org/essays/cordwainers-trial-of-1806/

https://philadelphiaencyclopedia.org/essays/cordwainers-trial-of-1806/

 

Demonstrate your understanding of the topic and the effectiveness of your original meme. Submit a minimum 3 page MLA formatted analysis that explains meme culture, the significance and context of your specific topic, and how your meme fits into this conversation.

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Meme

One of the largest communities most of us belong to is the online community and one of the most common ways people communicate online is through memes.

Your task in this project is to consider the social significance of memes and then contribute an original meme to a specific topic using an online meme generator.

To demonstrate your understanding of the topic and the effectiveness of your original meme, you will submit a minimum 3 page MLA formatted analysis that explains meme culture, the significance and context of your specific topic, and how your meme fits into this conversation.

 

Identify why the article was important enough for you to use in preparing for your CIO briefing. Briefly discuss how knowledge of this information might impact a CIO’s ability to make informed decisions.

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How Does Web3 Work?

Your team is the top adviser to the CIO and your job is researching Web 3.0 technologies.  Your team will research various articles to learn more about Web 3.0 and then prepare a briefing with the CIO.You need to find two web articles related to your specific assigned research area.  Remember, this is the area.  For each article:

  • Prepare a summary of the main points of each article.
  • Identify why the article was important enough for you to use in preparing for your CIO briefing.
  • Briefly discuss how knowledge of this information might impact a CIO’s ability to make informed decisions.
  • Based on your articles, make a final recommendation to your CIO on your assigned Web 3.0 technology.

Make sure to reference the two articles you used for your research, include the URLs for the articles!

 

 

What makes this genre successful? How does the writer build a relationship with the reader? What does the writer want the reader to feel, think, or do? What expectations do readers have? How are they met?

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GENRE: WEDDING TOASTS

Resources already made available are no more needed (they are in the attached PDF)

You will need to make the decision of how to organize your analysis, as various organization patterns exist based on your genre and what you have to share about it. However, using headings will definitely help.

Genre analysis generally, however, focuses on the following content areas. You will need to combine, customize, or reorder these content areas to best express your findings.

Information Grouping Areas:

  • Recurring Situation: who, what, when, where, and why
  • Textual description: font, language, color, word choice, how the text is arranged, style, voice, non-textual features such as images, frames, etc.
  • Contextual description: what is happening outside the text. Issues, debates, controversies that the genre may be responding to. Context includes the ongoing conversation, the web of other related texts.
  • Explanation for how conventions relate to purpose (the effect the genre has on the reader)
  • Changes in the genre over time, explaining how those changes respond to societal changes and advances in technology
  • Discourse community and its shared beliefs, values and norms of behavior as reflected in the genre

Rhetorical effectiveness (appropriateness): What makes this genre successful? How does the writer build a relationship with the reader? What does the writer want the reader to feel, think, or do? What expectations do readers have? How are they met?

 

Do you agree or disagree with the premise of the Monforton & Michaels article assigned in Week 9? Briefly explain why. Do you think it applies to NFL concussions? Briefly explain why. Are there other work safety and health cases that you recognize the strategy of “manufacturing uncertainty” being used in?

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Do you agree or disagree with the premise of the Monforton & Michaels article assigned in Week 9? Briefly explain why. Do you think it applies to NFL concussions? Briefly explain why. Are there other work safety and health cases that you recognize the strategy of “manufacturing uncertainty” being used in?

Using the Week 10 presentation on ethics, present your analysis of the ethical dimension of the OSH disaster you wrote about for the Week 8 & 9 paper. Could the occupational safety and health disaster have been prevented or mitigated if ethics had been considered? Explain.

 

State your opinions of how well the authors presented and discussed the research results including interpretations in the article. It should contain both positive and negative comments with due justification. List three insightful questions of your own arising from this article that could really make one think.

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Article review

Pre-title page: here, you will want to list the type of the article that you are reviewing, the title of the publication, all the authors who contributed to it, author’s affiliations (position, department, institute, city, state, country, email ID)  

 

II. Introduction: Objectives, Domain, etc.
A. Objective of the Article (goals or purpose), its domain/ topic area

B. Identify the intended audience of the article, i.e. what background should the reader have; what background material one should be familiar with to understand the article?

C. Classify whether the article is Conceptual or Empirical or Review

D. Identify the key pieces of prior research upon which articles are built.

  

 

III. Data , Methodology and Results
A. Summarise the article very briefly, roughly as under:

A1. What is the problem being addressed? A2. Which solution is being proposed?

A3. What evidence is put forward to support the solution provided (if article is of empirical type, highlight what kind of empirical study was conducted as part of the evidence)

B. Briefly summarise the important points (such as observations, conclusions, findings, inferences) and “take home points” in the article

  

 

IV. Conclusion
A. List the article’s original contribution. Discuss each contribution with due care

B. State your opinions of how well the authors presented and discussed the research results including interpretations in the article. It should contain both positive and negative comments with due justification.

C. List three insightful questions of your own arising from this article that could really make one think.