Common Core State Standards

    Order Description   Look at a contemporary social issue from an interdisciplinary perspective and summarize your findings and proposed solutions in the form of a research poster. The topic you select should be relevant to your future professional interests. For example, if you are interested in gerontology and aging services, your question should in some way be related to the needs of the older adult population. Similarly, if you are interested in anthropology, you might select a topic that examines the cultural responses to a given social problem. Your topic should lend itself to a good research question that can be examined from multiple social science perspectives, identifies a specific population of interest, and is linked in some way to existing public policy. You will not be doing an actual research study, but you will be conducting a review of the literature, identifying gaps or problems, and coming up with suggestions for addressing the identified problem. Introduce and identify your research question Describe your population of interest Look at your chosen issue from an interdisciplinary perspective by identifying at least 10 empirical, peer reviewed articles that represent at least three social science disciplines that speak to your population of choice. These articles need to: 1) Give you a pulse of the main issues facing your population and what the current state of the research is, 2) Lead you to think through potential policy implications for your group and 3) Help you examine the implications of this issue for society more broadly. You will need to compare and contrast the findings from the different disciplines. How do the findings align? How do they contrast? What insight does each discipline give to the specific issues of your chosen topic? Identify and discuss the specific provisions within selected laws and policies (e.g. ACA, Violence Against Women Act, Social Security Act) that apply to your chosen topic. Provide viable policy solutions based on your research. How could the social problem you selected be improved based on what you have learned from multiple social science disciplines?