Use materials from the course, use Artificial Intelligence (AI such as chatgpt.com) tools to generate ideas, and use outside sources to verify your claims. Place everything in your own voice and give credit to other sources when you use them.
In first person construct paragraphs for each of the sections below. Integrate the Key Notes with concepts from Poetic Healing and Argument Strategies in conjunction with the learning outcomes for the course (indicated in the questions), which stem from Goal Area 7 of the Minnesota Transfer Curriculum — Diversity, Race, Power, and Justice. This assignment requires practical and higher-order thinking, synthesis, application, and reflection, and requires researching and using source material from not only inside but also outside the course.
Example of first person: In this section I learned that…………..
An outline pattern for answering the five sections:
A. Define and explain answer
1. Example from course
2. Example from outside of the course
Section I. Group Processes (length of answer: minimum three or four full paragraphs)
A. Using terminology from the course (Key Notes on Groups and Poetic Healing 123-124 on identity transformation): define and explain group processes in relation to the changing meanings of group identities in history and culture (Goal Area 7.1)
1. Provide an example from the course, drawing upon information about identity and identity transformation in Poetic Healing on pages 123-124 and military groups from the play “Starkle, Starkle, Little Twink” (pages 71-108)
2. Provide an example of the changing meaning of group identities in history and culture from outside the course
Section II. Leadership (length of answer: minimum three or four full paragraphs)
A. Using terminology from the course: define and explain leadership, and explain how leaders can influence individual and institutional dynamics of power relations between individuals and/or groups in the context of an organization, a war, athletics, or society in general (Goal Area 7.2)
1. Provide an example from the course, drawing from the Key Notes — Leadership and the book Poetic Healing (pages 71-108) of the dynamics of power relations–equal and unequal power
2. Provide an example of the dynamics of power relations from outside of the course
Section III. Reflection (length of answer: minimum three or four full paragraphs)
Reflect upon Attitudes, Behaviors, Concepts, and Beliefs about Diversity
A. Using terminology from the course, particularly Intrapersonal Communication (Poetic Healing 3), Ogden and Richards’ “Word, Thought, Thing” Triangle of Meaning (Poetic Healing 180), and/or Pearce’s Matrix of Experience (Poetic Healing 181): reflect upon why there are differences in attitudes, behaviors, concepts, and beliefs about diversity, and race, power, or justice (Goal Area 7.3)
1. Using the Argument Strategies, particularly the strategy of definition, provide an example of a person or a group that can define a situation and how that ensuing definition of reality results in great power for that individual or group.
2. Provide an example from outside of the course of how differences in attitudes, behaviors, concepts, and beliefs about diversity can be either unproductive or productive
Section IV. Towards Inclusion (length of answer: minimum three or four full paragraphs)
A. Briefly describe and discuss Buber’s I-Thou versus I-it relationships concept from Poetic Healing pages 48-49 and in the Key Notes in relation to an individual or group that has suffered discrimination and exclusion (Goal Area 7.4)
1. Using all four of Bolman and Deal’s Four Frames of Leadership (Structural, Political, Symbolic, Humanistic) from the Key Notes for the course, provide an example of discrimination and, importantly, a way to improve the situation.
2. Provide an example of discrimination and a way to alleviate that discrimination from outside the course
Section V. Conflict and Communication Skills (length of answer: minimum three or four full paragraphs)
A. Reflect upon Styles of Communication on pages 276-277 of Poetic Healing and indicate which styles would be beneficial when working with a diverse group (Goal Area 7.5)
1. Provide an example
2. Provide another example