For this activity, you will write a short paper introducing a wellness topic of your choice

You should begin to gather the sources you will integrate into your project. These sources will include two resources from the module resource sections of this course and two resources that you find through your own research using the Shapiro Library. It may be beneficial to identify more than the number of sources required for the project so that you can eventually choose the most useful and credible ones.

Specifically, you must address the following rubric criteria:

1. Integrate reliable evidence from varied sources throughout your paper to support your analysis.
   1. It is important to draw from a more diverse pool of perspectives from varied sources to support the analysis. This is different from the Citations and Attributions rubric criterion.
   2. Reliable evidence from varied sources should be interwoven throughout the paper itself, while citing and attributing sources will be represented as APA in-text citations and a reference list at the end of your work.
   3. You will be evaluated on both criteria.
2. Describe a social or global issue or event that is related to the issues of wellness. Include information such as the origin of the issue and what it is about.
   1. What main points should you include about your topic? What other details are needed to ensure a thorough description?
3. Describe a population significant to your topic. Include information such as demographics, cultural practices, social identity, and key challenges.
   1. Examples could include a population who is directly impacted by the topic, a group that works with those people directly impacted, or a group that has strong feelings about the topic.
4. Assess how society impacts the chosen issue or event.
   1. What examples clearly illustrate how the larger global society has impacted the issue or event?
5. Explain your choice of general education interdisciplinary lens for analyzing your topic.
   1. What made you choose one lens over the others? Was it an easy decision? Why or why not?
6. Construct a thesis statement that combines your topic, population, societal situation, and choice of general education interdisciplinary lens.
   1. Your thesis statement should clearly and concisely state the relationships between your topic, population, cultural situation, and lens. It acts as a hypothesis proposing how these elements will work together during your critical analysis.