Category: Cultural studies

My project has been focused on the Sami people of Northern Norway. I’ve attached my previous work on this subject for this Cultural Project. The Culture Project asks you to explore a culture that you are interested in more deeply. You will complete this project in four phases during the course. Each phase of the project builds on the previous one. Phase 3: Develop an intercultural learning trip to explore the culture. Due Week 6 Phase 4: Reflect on effectively communicating the gospel in the culture. Due Week 8 Phase 3 Develop an Intercultural Learning Trip. You will develop a plan for a trip that will introduce participants to this culture through an immersive experience. Utilize suggestions from Livermores book for developing a culturally intelligent short-term mission trip. For this project, you are developing a realistic plan – a step-by-step description of the trip that will specifically utilize the intercultural learning model. You should include: Your plans to prepare the group for the trip (Focus Stage), The learning goals for the trip what are three big learning goals that you want your participants to learn while on this trip? Learning Activities Where you will go, what you will do and experience, and how you will turn that into a learning process that will engage the components of cultural intelligence and increase the cultural knowledge and competency of participants? Your learning goals should be operationalized in 3 Learning Activities that are culture specific. Describe each learning activity, how you will engage in action and reflection, and what cultural mentors you will include in each. How will you further reinforce those learning goals through your Debrief Stage, once the group returns from the trip? Describe your plan to help your group continue to learn from their experiences once they are back home. You should have at least 1 paragraph for each question, but more will likely be required to answer the above questions sufficiently. Requirements Length. At a minimum, 4 paragraphs, but likely more to sufficiently answer all questions. Font and Spacing. Use Times New Roman 12 point font, double-spaced. Header. Utilze the following header Your Full Name Understanding Cultures – Dr. Hutchens Date (for example, September 3, 2023) Cultural Project Phase 3 Sources. Make sure you include any sources that you use. Otherwise, you will be deducted points. You can use the APA or another easy-to-use citation format. For biblical citations, simply reference the passage in abbreviated book form (Gen, Exod, Lev, etc.) in parenthesis and the short version of the translation in your first reference. Example of first reference: (John 3:16 ESV). Example of subsequent references: (Gen 1:1)

Overview

The final project for this course is an analysis of a hospital, state, or federally funded healthcare organization with recommendations that will evaluate the cultural competence of an organization and the ways it provides services from a population health approach framework. It is important for healthcare organizations to use strategies for improving services to a diverse population in order to provide quality care to all patients.

A population health approach unifies, integrates, and balances prevention and promotion, health protection, diagnosis, treatment, and care. It acknowledges and reflects evidence that factors outside of the healthcare system can significantly affect health. It considers the entire range of individual and collective factors and conditionsand their interactionsthat have been shown to be correlated with health status. Commonly referred to as the determinants of health, these factors currently include income and social status, social support networks, education, employment/working conditions, social environments, physical environments, personal health practices and coping skills, healthy child development, biology and genetic endowment, health services, gender, and culture.

A population health approach focuses on improving the health status of a population, rather than of individuals. Such a focus necessitates reducing disparities, or inequalities in health status among population groups. The outcomes or benefits of a population health approach, therefore, extend beyond improved population health outcomes to include an integrated health system and increased social cohesion and citizen engagement.

The project is divided into three milestones which will be submitted at various points throughout the course to scaffold learning and ensure quality final submissions. These milestones will be submitted in Modules Three, Four, and Six. The final project will be submitted in Module Seven.

In this assignment, you will show your ability to complete the following course outcomes:

• Evaluate health promotion and disease management strategies for their efficacy in addressing factors that determine population health status
• Evaluate healthcare organizations patient engagement activities and communication strategies for the extent to which they demonstrate cultural competence for improving population health outcomes
• Assess the extent to which healthcare organizations use the population health approach to reduce costs and improve quality of care
• Propose recommendations that improve healthcare organizations effectiveness in advancing the population health approach

Prompt

Select a hospital, state, or federally funded healthcare organization. Based on what you learned and the course material, you will evaluate the cultural competence of the healthcare organization.

Specifically the following critical elements must be addressed:

1. Patient engagement activities and communication strategies
2. Critique the organizations translation and interpretation services. Be sure to provide evidence to support your claims.

• Does the organization provide such services for non-English speaking patients?
• How many different languages are supported?
• How might the organization communicate with a speaker of a language that is not supported?

1. Analyze the extent to which educational resources and materials are available in languages other than English. Be sure to provide specific examples.
2. Assess organizational staff training for its potential to foster cultural competence. Be sure to provide evidence to support your claims.

• Examine training programs for patient engagement and communication.

1. Identify gaps or deficiencies. Provide evidence to support your claims. If you feel there are none, be sure to explain your reasoning.

• Examine gaps in areas that may exist in the organizations patient engagement and communications strategies.

1. Health promotion and disease prevention and management strategies
2. Assess the organizations health promotion efforts. Be sure to provide evidence to support your claims.

• Examine programs such as fitness classes, blood pressure clinics, first aid training, nutrition education, etc., that it may offer to patients.

1. Evaluate the efficacy of disease prevention and management programs and services in addressing population health determinants. Be sure to provide evidence to support your claims.

• Examine programs and services such as discharge planning, home health services, vaccination services, etc.

1. Analyze non-programmatic services for their impact on factors that determine population health status.

• Examine programs such as transportation, onsite childcare, etc.

1. Identify gaps or deficiencies. Provide evidence to support your claims. If you feel there are none, be sure to explain your reasoning.

• Examine common areas where gaps may exist in the organizations health promotion and disease prevention and management efforts.

1. Financial incentives and quality improvement processes
2. Analyze population health-oriented policies. Be sure to provide evidence to support your claims.

• Examine policies such as non-discrimination in hiring, care and treatment, Patient Bill of Rights, financial assistance, etc., that the organization may have implemented for reducing costs and improving overall quality.

1. Assess the extent of the organizations approach to which care is considered patient-centered. Be sure to cite specific examples to substantiate your claims.
2. Analyze specific strategies the organization employs to reduce costs and improve overall quality.

• Examine strategies such as eliminating unnecessary procedures and providing only essential treatments or interventions.

1. Identify gaps or deficiencies. Provide evidence to support your claims. If you feel there are none, be sure to explain your reasoning.

• Examine common areas where gaps may exist in the organizations use of the population health approach in reducing costs and improving quality of care.

1. Recommendations
2. Recommend appropriate strategies for improving the organizations cultural competence with regard to patient engagement and communications. Be sure to use research to support your reasoning.
3. Suggest appropriate health promotion and disease prevention strategies for improving outcomes in terms of population health status. Be sure to use research to justify your suggestions.
4. Recommend appropriate policies and strategies that increase the organizations use of a population health approach to reduce costs and improve overall quality of care. Be sure to use research to substantiate your recommendations.

Milestones

Milestone One: Patient Engagement Activities and Communication Strategies

In Module Three, you will submit Section I of the analysis, in which you will address the patient engagement activities and communication strategies of the health organization. Specifically, you will critique the organizations translation services, educational materials, and staff training options. You should consider things such as the variety of language options, how well the organization meets the language requirements of its service demographic, and how well staff training addresses key cultural competence issues. This milestone should be two to three double-spaced pages. This milestone is graded with the Milestone One Rubric.

Milestone Two: Health Promotion and Disease Prevention and Management Strategies

In Module Four, you will submit Section II of the analysis, in which you will address the organizations health promotion and disease prevention and management strategies. Specifically, you will critique the organizations healthy living programs, disease prevention and management programs, and non-programmatic services. You will assess the cultural competence of these services using the population health approach. Be sure to consider issues such as how well the organizations health promotion and management strategies address a wide range of cultural beliefs and whether the organizations programs and non-programmatic services help to reduce inequalities among members of the population. This milestone should be two to three double-spaced pages. This milestone is graded with the Milestone Two Rubric.

Milestone Three: Financial Incentives and Quality Improvement Processes

In Module Six, you will submit Section III of the analysis, in which you will address the organizations financial incentives and quality improvement processes. Specifically, you will critique the organizations population-health-oriented policies, the organizations approach to care and the extent to which it is patient-centered, and any strategies the organization uses in its population health approach. This milestone should be two to three double-spaced pages. This milestone is graded with the Milestone Three Rubric.

Final Submission: Case Study Analysis and Proposal

In Module Seven, you will submit your analysis and proposal using a population health approach framework. It should be a complete, polished artifact containing all the critical elements of the final product. It should also reflect the instructor feedback for each milestone. This submission is graded with the Final Project Rubric.

What to Submit

Written components of the project must follow these formatting guidelines: double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, one-inch margins, and APA-style citations. The analysis and proposal should be 8 to 10 pages in length, not including the cover page and resources.

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Assignment Prompt

The link above provides an example of a cultural transformation within a single person. Using expository writing, produce a few paragraphs (500600 words) inspired by the clip. In your writing, use at least 4 different key terms from Chapter 3 about cultural evolution. Demonstrate both your knowledge of the material and your imagination.

Task: Write an essay that analyzes how the music video portrays cultural transformation within a person, making connections to key concepts from Chapter 3.

Requirements:

• Length: 500600 words (submissions above or below this range will receive a penalty).
• Key Terms: Use at least 4 different key terms from Chapter 3 (listed at the end of the chapter and bolded throughout). Each key term must be bolded and highlighted (1 point if not).
• Focus: You must write about the music video itself, not about Katy Perrys personal life.
• Submission: Upload as a Word (.doc/.docx) or PDF file,
• Text must be in your own words; please do not use AI, as the use of AI is considered plagiarism. This assignment is meant for you to freewrite and demonstrate your knowledge in the course.

Be sure to review the rubric below before submitting.

As described in the course syllabus, please select a culture different than your own, and then “plunge” into that culture through an immersive experience. Please share a 1-2 page written description of the plunge and what you learned from this experience.

Cultural Artifact (5 FULL

pages; (not including work cited page) 12pt, Times New Roman font, 1 margins, double-

spaced)

THE PROJECT:

This project asks you to explain the cultural

meaning of an object. You should choose and object that has some importance to the culture of Rereading Americasome

object that relates to the homelife described in the short essays you read from section 1,

Harmony at Home or the ones you plan to read from Learning Power in section2. It can also be an object that relates to your major, in which case you will need to do research or have personal experience with that object in that field.

This project is about meaning.

It is not about the history of the object, the factual elements are only to support your

ethos as you make your claim about what the object means. Your paper should focus on how the artifact from the field represents the meaning of your field. Think of the farmer, how that Ram commercial is predicated upon the meaning of farmer and how it ties Ram

trucks to that meaning. But you must

be more honest than the commercial and explain explicitly how the artifact that is your focus represents the meaning of the field.

To write this paper you will need to think about and research the object so that you can have

facts to support the ethos of your claims about what it means.

DO NOT fall into the trap of just reporting those facts though.

Your research should allow you to say things that most who at first think about your profession and artifact wouldnt think of. Your paper uses these facts to make yourself sound like an expert about the object.

LEARNING GOALS:

1) to invite you to inquire into cultural values and/or practices of

literacy (what does it mean to know about a thing?) by choosing an artifact as the focus of

your inquiry; and 2) to give you practice in processes of inquiry: forming and asking

questions, revising questions, and seeking answers.

RHETORICAL PURPOSE:

of the project is to demonstrate the significance of an everyday

item for understanding a larger pattern of cultural values or practices. Your reader should

come away from your essay having learned a new way to look at taken-for-granted artifact

through the cultural values/practices you discover in your analysis of the artifact youve chosen.

THE FIRST STEP:

Learn about the object. To learn about its material, literal, concrete properties. It is important here to dig until you go past the surface, the obvious. You should reach

a point where you discover facts about the object in question that you did not know going in.

These facts become your Ethos as you then describe the previous usage and cultural (figurative)

meaning of the object and the changing usage and how that new usage changes its meaning.

THE GOAL:

Take a common object and research it until its literal and figurative strangeness is revealed.

The object is Bow and Arrow.

1. Angela Davis argues that the blues developed a tradition of openly addressing female and male sexuality and that this tradition was distinctly African American and gave expression to the new social and sexual realities being experienced by African Americans as a free people. Do you agree or disagree with this argument? Why? What does it say about the power of musical expression in Black communities.

They will choose one article and do research concerning the historical and political precedents that contributed to the issue at hand. I will post these on Blackboard in the folder for this assignment by the second week of class. These news articles will be related to the themes we cover in the first weeks of class, and it is expected that you will use scholarly sources in your paper. This will be a shorter essay, 2000 words minimum, but it is expected that good quality sources will be used (at least 5 scholarly sources and 8 sources total). Appropriate citations and referencing are mandatory article to use- helping indigenous entrepreneurs grow and sometimes heal by andrea smith date jan 15,2026

this paper asks you to analyze and interpret the role of place in shaping identity. Some guiding questions include: What does the relationship between place and identity look like in the text(s)? What is the significance of place or environment for the text and its characters? Does the scenery influence the narrative? What are some Chicanx/a/o perspectives that are being created/perpetuated or countered/pushed back against and how does setting or location play a part in this? I have also uploaded my work for reference but please make a new paper.

As you write, be sure to cite specific examples of evidence from each text, pointing out the use of literary and cinematic devices where appropriate.

Start this week by revisiting MODULE #3 on our ‘Class-Modules’ section. Here, a link to an important United Nations [UN] database is provided as part of the regular lecture notes. Follow the provided link to access the important UN database.

https://www.ohchr.org/en/hr-bodies/upr/documentation

Once there, choose one European or one Asian/Middle Eastern country to focus on [choose one country from the many available on the list. Our focus is on regions that we have covered up to this point].

For this assignment, we will pay close attention to two main sections of the available country reports:

1. Compilation of UN Information [which is the initial report on a country’s Human Rights record].2. National Report [which is a chance for the chosen country to answer back/give a rebuttal to the UN report].–See the instructions below:

a. Start by clearly introducing your chosen Asian, Middle Eastern or European country. Be sure to offer some useful background information on the country [Location, form of government, demographics.]

b. Now proceed to briefly analyze the available parts of the report for the chosen country. List and explain:

b.1. At least two major areas of concern as per the Compilation of UN Information document. Be sure to include specific information on the core instrument that forms the basis of the stated violation

and

b.2. The follow-up rejoinder on the same two issues as per the provided National Report. As you compile your response, pay close attention to how the chosen country addresses the issues at hand [whether directly or through convenient explanations.]

c. For our debate question: In your opinion, how effective are the available UN reports in addressing outstanding Human Rights violations in the chosen country? What suggestions would you make in this regard? Please explain.