Overview For this activity, you will critically analyze how those within your chosen population engage with your topic. You will identify what is already working well and opportunities for change. Completing this activity will result in a draft of the critical analysis section of your project. It also provides an opportunity to obtain valuable feedback from your instructor that you can incorporate into your project submission. Directions In this activity, you will consider the elements of your topic you can develop to encourage, promote, and transform conversations about diversity. Include diverse perspectives from varied sources to support your points. You should continue to gather the sources you will integrate into your final project, which include two resources from course materials and two resources from the library. Look to the SNHU Shapiro Library for assistance in finding evidence and resources from outside the course. For this activity, you will discuss how to collaborate constructively with your chosen population group. You will then describe at least one positive element related to your topic and, finally, one element that could benefit from change. You are not required to answer each question below the rubric criteria but may use them to better understand the criteria and guide your thinking. Specifically, you must address the following rubric criteria: 1. Integrate  reliable evidence from varied sources throughout your paper to support your analysis. a. 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. b. 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. c. You will be evaluated on both criteria. 2. Discuss how you would  constructively collaborate with your population to encourage their engagement with your chosen topic. a. Consider how you would develop a dialogue with your population about the topic you have chosen. What are your ideas for supporting constructive and inclusive conversation and programs of engagement? 3. Describe at least one  positive element within your topic that supports transformation . a. What conversational and collaborative approaches have already been successful? Visualize how this positive element could have a ripple effect towards a transformative conversation about your topic. This is not simply your opinion but should be supported by reliable evidence. b. If you do not think your topic has been engaged with positively or successfully, explain why you have come to this conclusion. 4. Describe at least one specific element within your topic that could  benefit from change. a. What potential opportunities are there to impro.

1. Overview
For this activity, you will critically analyze how those within
your chosen population engage with your topic. You will
identify what is already working well and opportunities for
change. Completing this activity will result in a draft of the
critical analysis section of your project. It also provides an
opportunity to obtain valuable feedback from your instructor
that you can incorporate into your project submission.
Directions
In this activity, you will consider the elements of your topic you
can develop to encourage, promote, and transform conversations
about diversity. Include diverse perspectives from varied
sources to support your points. You should continue to gather
the sources you will integrate into your final project, which
include two resources from course materials and two resources
from the library. Look to the SNHU Shapiro Library for
assistance in finding evidence and resources from outside the
course. For this activity, you will discuss how to collaborate
constructively with your chosen population group. You will
then describe at least one positive element related to your topic
and, finally, one element that could benefit from change.
You are not required to answer each question below the rubric
criteria but may use them to better understand the criteria and
guide your thinking.
Specifically, you must address the following rubric criteria:
1. Integrate
reliable evidence from varied sources throughout your
paper to support your analysis.
a. 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.
b. Reliable evidence from varied sources should be interwoven
throughout the paper itself, while citing and attributing sources

2. will be represented as APA in-text citations and a reference list
at the end of your work.
c. You will be evaluated on both criteria.
2. Discuss how you would
constructively collaborate with your population to
encourage their engagement with your chosen topic.
a. Consider how you would develop a dialogue with your
population about the topic you have chosen. What are your
ideas for supporting constructive and inclusive conversation and
programs of engagement?
3. Describe at least one
positive element within your topic that supports
transformation
.
a. What conversational and collaborative approaches have
already been successful? Visualize how this positive element
could have a ripple effect towards a transformative conversation
about your topic. This is not simply your opinion but should be
supported by reliable evidence.
b. If you do not think your topic has been engaged with
positively or successfully, explain why you have come to this
conclusion.
4. Describe at least one specific element within your topic that
could
benefit from change.
a. What potential opportunities are there to improve your topic?
What could be done differently to encourage, promote, or
transform your topic? Build off ways that your topic has been
discussed and represented in the past. This is not simply your
opinion but should be supported by reliable evidence.
What to Submit
Submit your short paper as a 1- to 2-page Microsoft Word
document with double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman
font, and one-inch margins. Sources should be cited according

3. to APA style. Consult the
Shapiro Library APA Style Guide for more information
on citations.
Overview
For this activity, you will consider influences on constructive
engagement with your topic. You will also propose how your
ideas to transform conversations about your topic might
influence how we as a larger society perceive it. This activity
contributes to your draft of the critical analysis section of your
project. It also provides an opportunity to obtain valuable
feedback from your instructor that you can incorporate into your
project submission.
Directions
In this activity, you will work on the second part of the critical
analysis of your topic in diversity. You should consider the
feedback from your instructor on the previous activity and use
your responses to inform this assignment. Throughout the
process, you will support your analysis with reliable evidence
from varied sources, which include at least two resources from
course materials and two resources from the library. For this
activity, you will assess factors that may influence engagement
with your topic and then explain one potential obstacle that
could interfere with constructive conversation about your topic.
Finally, you will describe a possible outcome of your proposed
engagement that might influence societal conversations about
your topic.
You are not required to answer each question below the rubric
criteria but may use them to better understand the criteria and
guide your thinking.
Specifically, you must address the following rubric criteria:
1. Integrate
reliable evidence from varied sources throughout your
paper to support your analysis.

4. a. 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.
b. 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.
c. You will be evaluated on both criteria.
2. Assess at least two
significant factors that could affect your topic, such as
biases, beliefs, assumptions, and/or values.
a. In the previous activity, you identified positive elements in
conversations about your topic and elements that might benefit
from change. Now, determine factors that might influence how
insiders and outsiders engage with your topic. What might
change their perceptions of the topic or how they talk about it?
3. Explain how at least one
potential obstacle could interfere with the population’s
engagement with your topic.
a. In the previous activity, you identified conversational
elements that present opportunities for change. Now, determine
a possible obstacle that could interfere with this constructive
engagement.
4. Describe a possible outcome of your proposed engagement
that might influence the
societal conversations that add to critical awareness of
diversity.
a. You have critically examined how insiders and outsiders of
your chosen population engage with your topic. How might your
ideas for more constructive, transformative engagement impact
how we, as a greater society, talk about your topic?
What to Submit

5. Submit your short paper as a 1- to 2-page Microsoft Word
document with double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman
font, and one-inch margins. Sources should be cited according
to APA style. Consult the
Shapiro Library APA Style Guide for more information
on citations.