Q Overview This course explores wellness and its impact on the world around us. Wellness influences society, and society influences wellness, creating a feedback loop between them. We will critically analyze this feedback loop in this course through social, historical, and theoretical approaches to wellness as well as the four general education lenses: history, humanities, natural and applied sciences, and social sciences. Each of these four perspectives allows us to better understand the construction of wellness and its interrelation with society. From this enhanced understanding, you will be equipped to draw connections between wellness and your personal and professional lives, helping you to become a better-informed citizen who can make a positive difference in the world. Issues and events in wellness have a pervading influence on many aspects of society, and how they are dealt with requires diverse knowledge and perspectives to investigate and change. The purpose of this project is to examine a specific issue or event in wellness and how that event or issue impacts individuals and society. You will do this through the development of a critical analysis portfolio and a presentation in which you will demonstrate your ability to think critically, investigate, and communicate clearly. These skills are often necessary to achieve personal and professional goals across many disciplines. In this assignment, you will demonstrate your mastery of the following course outcomes: • Analyze the various components of wellness for investigating the influence of wellness on one’s discipline of study or chosen profession • Integrate interdisciplinary approaches for determining the impact that contemporary issues in healthcare systems have on modern society • Describe contemporary issues surrounding wellness for their relevance to and impact on the individual and society by employing appropriate research strategies • Recommend potential applications of strategies for monitoring and enhancing personal and public wellness • Articulate informed viewpoints on contemporary issues surrounding wellness through effective communication skills • Assess cultural and social attitudes, choices, and behaviors for their implications to lifelong health and wellness through the incorporation of diverse perspectives and viewpoints informed by relevant literature and peer experiences Prompt For Final Project Part Two, you will develop a multimedia presentation in which you will have a chance to reflect on what you have learned about your issue or event, yourself, and society through analyzing your event or issue’s impact on wellness. You will also be able to apply your communication skills and integrate multimedia elements to communicate your message to an audience. In developing this presentation, you will be able to use your analyses from Final Project Part One as a starting point. The reflective nature of this activity prompts you to dig deeper and consider the implications posed by the critical analysis of your issue or event in wellness. How does studying wellness affect how you understand yourself as well as the world around you? You’ll also be challenged to incorporate a dash of creativity to enhance your message. Multimedia Presentation: For the second part of the project, you will create a multimedia presentation that incorporates audio narration and visuals to articulate how critically analyzing your issue or event in wellness impacts your own framework of perception and ability to constructively engage in society. PowerPoint: You are required to include a combination of text and visuals in order to support your PowerPoint presentation. Use the Check File Compatibility With Earlier Versions and Are You Having Video or Audio Playback Issues? resources to help you check compatibility between versions of Office. Also, follow the instructions on the Microsoft Support page to compress your presentation into a zipped file. You may upload a zipped file when submitting this assignment. Reducing the size of the PowerPoint presentation file by compressing it makes it easier for your instructor to download and grade. Microphone: While it is not necessary to purchase a microphone for this project, you will need to have access to a microphone to record the narration of the presentation. You can use the external microphone of your device, a set of earbuds, or a borrowed microphone from a friend. This assignment is graded on the content of the narration and not the quality of the recording. Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed: I. Issue/Event: For this section of your presentation, you will introduce the issue or event and how it relates to issues of wellness and any of the topics that have been discussed in the course. A. Using appropriate research strategies, describe a social or global issue or event that is related to issues of wellness. [IDS-402-03] i. What is the origin of the issue? ii. What is the issue about? B. Using appropriate research strategies, describe the impact of the issue or event on society. [IDS-402-03] i. Who is impacted by the issue? ii. What is important to know about those who are impacted by the issue? C. Using relevant research or diverse perspectives, assess how society impacts the chosen issue. [IDS-402-06] II. Yourself: This section of your presentation explores how studying wellness influences your individual framework of perception with respect to your discipline of study or profession. A. How has critically analyzing your issue or event in wellness informed your individual framework of perception? Consider how your analysis has altered the way you perceive the world. [IDS-402-05] B. How can critically analyzing wellness influence your field of study or profession? How can studying wellness inform your understanding of the next big topic of study in your field or profession in the next five to ten years? [IDS-402-01] III. Society: This section of your presentation explores how studying wellness enhances your ability to engage constructively in society. A. How does critically analyzing wellness add value to how you interact with people and understand social or global issues or events? Supplement your reasoning with examples. [IDS-402-04] B. Recommend strategies for using this kind of critical analysis for meeting your personal and professional goals. What might this look like in your everyday life? Consider how wellness can be used to address the day-to-day responsibilities or questions faced by practitioners in your field or discipline. [IDS-402-04] IV. Conclusion: A. Using relevant research or diverse perspectives, assess the benefits and challenges of addressing issues in wellness. [IDS-402-06] B. Explain how critically analyzing wellness adds value to interactions with people in personal and professional contexts. [IDS-402-02] V. Presentation: Throughout your presentation, you will be assessed on your ability to use effective communication skills to deliver your message to your audience. A. Construct your presentation in a way that ensures the audio and visual elements are logically organized in order to convey your message to your audience. [IDS-402-05] B. Provide supporting evidence in your presentation that supports the importance of the chosen issue or event and its impact within wellness. [IDS-402-05] C. Develop the audio narration to logically flow with the presentation to articulate the importance of critically analyzing the chosen issue or event and its impact within wellness. [IDS-402-05] Milestone Three: Wellness, You, and Society Milestones In Module Five, you will draft the content that will inform your final multimedia presentation, due in Module Seven. This includes the interconnected nature of wellness and its impact on one’s individual framework of perception, one’s discipline of study, and society in general. This milestone will be submitted as a presentation draft that includes speaker’s notes. This milestone will be graded with the Milestone Three Rubric. Final Project Part Two Submission: Multimedia Presentation In Module Seven, you will submit Final Project Part Two. It should be a complete, polished artifact containing all of the critical elements of the final product. It should reflect the incorporation of feedback gained throughout the course. This submission will be graded with the Final Project Part Two Rubric. Final Project Part Two Rubric Guidelines for Submission: Your multimedia presentation should be approximately 10 to 12 slides and 8 to 12 minutes in length. You are required to include a combination of text, visuals, and sound in order to support your work. Support your presentation with relevant resources cited in APA format and noted on a separate slide. If you require alternative accommodations for completing this assignment, reach out to your instructor directly for more information. Note: Turnitin, the originality report feature used in the course, is not able to check PowerPoint submissions for plagiarism. Thus, you should submit your speaker notes in a separate Word document. Both files (PowerPoint and Word) can be submitted through the Final Project Part Two submission item.