IDS 400 Final Project Part Two Guidelines and Rubric Overview This course explores diversity and its impact on the world around us. Diversity influences society, and society influences diversity, creating a feedback loop between them. We will critically analyze this feedback loop in this course through social, historical, and theoretical approaches to diversity 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 diversity and its interrelation with society. From this enhanced understanding, you will be equipped to draw connections between popular culture 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 diversity 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 diversity 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 relationships among culture, diversity, and self by investigating their influence on one’s discipline of study or chosen profession  Integrate interdisciplinary approaches for determining how issues of diversity affect modern societies in both personal and professional contexts  Describe the cultural and social influences on the development of personal identity by employing appropriate research strategies  Recommend strategies for overcoming obstacles in diversity to meet personal and professional goals  Articulate informed viewpoints on how to ensure cultural responsiveness in personal and professional contexts using effective communication skills  Assess the challenges of overcoming issues in diversity 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 diversity. 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 th ...

1. IDS 400 Final Project Part Two Guidelines and Rubric
Overview
This course explores diversity and its impact on the world
around us. Diversity influences society, and society influences
diversity, creating a feedback loop
between them. We will critically analyze this feedback loop in
this course through social, historical, and theoretical approaches
to diversity 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

2. the construction of diversity and its interrelation with society.
From this enhanced understanding, you will be equipped to
draw connections between popular
culture 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 diversity 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 diversity and how that
event or issue impacts individuals and society.
You will do this through the development of a critical analysi s
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:
by investigating their influence on one’s discipline of study or
chosen profession
hes for determining how
issues of diversity affect modern societies in both personal and
professional contexts
development of personal identity by employing appropriate
research strategies
d strategies for overcoming obstacles in diversity
to meet personal and professional goals
responsiveness in personal and professional contexts using

3. effective communication skills
e challenges of overcoming issues in diversity
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 diversity. 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 diversity. How does
studying diversity 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.
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4. 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
diversity 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

5. 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
diversity 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 diversity. [IDS-
400-03]
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-400-03]
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-400-06]
II. Yourself: This section of your presentation explores how
studying diversity influences your individual framework of
perception with respect to your

6. discipline of study or profession.
A. How has critically analyzing your issue or event in diversity
informed your individual framework of perception? Consider
how your analysis has
altered the way you perceive the world. [IDS-400-05]
B. How can critically analyzing diversity influence your field of
study or profession? How can studying diversity inform your
understanding of the
next big topic of study in your field or profession in the next
five to ten years? [IDS-400-01]
III. Society: This section of your presentation explores how
studying diversity enhances your ability to engage
constructively in society.
A. How does critically analyzing diversity add value to how you
interact with people and understand social or global issues or
events? Supplement
your reasoning with examples. [IDS-400-04]
B. Recommend strategies for using this kind of critical analysis
for meeting your personal and professional goals. What might
this look like in your
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7. everyday life? Consider how diversity can be used to address
the day-to-day responsibilities or questions faced by
practitioners in your field or
discipline. [IDS-400-04]
IV. Conclusion:
A. Using relevant research or diverse perspectives, assess the
benefits and challenges of addressing issues in diversity. [IDS-
400-06]
B. Explain how critically analyzing diversity adds value to
interactions with people in personal and professional contexts.
[IDS-400-02]
V. Presentation: Throughout your presentation, you will be
assessed on your ability to use effective communication skills to
deliver your message to your

8. 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-400-05]
B. Provide supporting evidence in your presentation that
supports the importance of the chosen issue or event and its
impact within diversity.
[IDS-400-05]
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 diversity. [IDS-400-05]
Milestones
Milestone Three: Diversity, You, and Society
In Module Five, you will draft the content that will inform your
final multimedia presentation, due in Module Seven. This
includes the intersectional nature of
diversity 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

9. 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.
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11. Critical Elements Exemplary (100%) Proficient (85%) Needs
Improvement (55%) Not Evident (0%) Value
Issue/Event: Social
or Global
Issue/Event
[IDS-400-03]
Meets “Proficient” criteria and
description demonstrates a
nuanced understanding of the
relationship between the
chosen issue and problems in
diversity

12. Describes a social or global
issue or event and how it
relates to problems in diversity,
using appropriate research
strategies
Describes a social or global
issue or event and how it
relates to problems in diversity,
but description is cursory or
research strategies are
inappropriate
Does not describe a social or
global issue or event and how it
relates to problems in diversity
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Issue/Event: Impact
on Society
[IDS-400-03]
Meets “Proficient” criteria and
description demonstrates a
nuanced understanding of the
social impact of the issue or
event
Describes the impact of the
issue or event on society and
uses appropriate research
strategies

13. Describes the impact of the
issue or event on society, but
the description is cursory or
the research strategies are
inappropriate
Does not describe the impact
of the issue or event on society
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Issue/Event: Society
Impacts
[IDS-400-06]
Meets “Proficient” criteria and
the relevant research or diverse
perspectives used demonstrate
a nuanced understanding of
how society influences the
chosen issue and how it is
perceived
Assesses how society impacts
the chosen issue, using
relevant research or diverse
perspectives
Assesses how society impacts
the chosen issue, but
explanation is cursory or the
use of relevant research or
diverse perspectives is
inappropriate

14. Does not assess how society
impacts the chosen issue
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Yourself: Individual
Framework of
Perception
[IDS-400-05]
Meets “Proficient” criteria and
explanation demonstrates keen
insight into how the issue or
event has informed one’s
individual framework of
perception
Explains how critically
analyzing an issue or event in
diversity has informed one’s
individual framework of
perception
Explains how critically
analyzing an issue or event in
diversity has informed one’s
individual framework of
perception, but explanation is
cursory
Does not explain how critically
analyzing an issue or event in
diversity has informed one’s
individual framework of
perception

15. 8
Yourself: Individual
Field of Study or
Profession
[IDS-400-01]
Meets “Proficient” criteria and
explanation demonstrates keen
insight into how an issue or
event can influence one’s
discipline of study or profession
Explains how critically
analyzing diversity can
influence one’s discipline of
study or profession
Explains how critically
analyzing diversity can
influence one’s discipline of
study or profession, but
explanation is cursory
Does not explain how critically
analyzing diversity can
influence one’s discipline of
study or profession
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Society: Interact
[IDS-400-04]

16. Meets “Proficient” criteria and
explanation demonstrates keen
insight into how critically
analyzing diversity adds value
to interactions with people and
to understanding social or
global issues or events
Explains how critically
analyzing diversity adds value
to interactions with people and
to understanding social or
global issues or events
Explains how critically
analyzing diversity adds value
to interactions with people and
issues or events, but
explanation is cursory
Does not explain how critically
analyzing diversity adds value
to interactions with people and
understanding to social or
global issues or events
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18. Critical Elements Exemplary (100%) Proficient (85%) Needs
Improvement (55%) Not Evident (0%) Value
Society: Strategies
[IDS-400-04]
Meets “Proficient” criteria and
strategies are plausible and
detailed
Recommends strategies for
using critical analysis for
meeting personal and
professional goals
Recommends strategies for
using critical analysis for
meeting personal and
professional goals, but

19. recommendations are
inappropriate
Does not recommend
strategies for using critical
analysis for meeting personal
and professional goals
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Conclusion: Benefits
and Challenges
[IDS-400-06]
Meets “Proficient” criteria and
uses relevant research or
diverse perspectives to
demonstrate a nuanced
understanding of the benefits
and challenges of addressing
issues in diversity
Assesses the benefits and
challenges of addressing issues
in diversity and uses relevant
research or diverse
perspectives
Assesses the benefits and
challenges of addressing issues
in diversity, but analysis is
cursory or utilization of
relevant research or diverse
perspectives is inappropriate

20. Does not assess the benefits
and challenges of addressing
issues in diversity
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Conclusion: Adds
Value
[IDS-400-02]
Meets “Proficient” criteria and
explanation demonstrates keen
insight into how critically
analyzing diversity adds value
to interactions with people in
personal and professional
contexts
Explains how critically
analyzing diversity adds value
to interactions with people in
personal and professional
contexts
Explains how critically
analyzing diversity adds value
to interactions with people in
personal and professional
contexts, but explanation is
cursory
Does not explain how critically
analyzing diversity adds value
to interactions with people in
personal and professional

21. contexts
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Presentation:
Organized:
[IDS-400-05]
Meets “Proficient” criteria and
organization cogently conveys
the message to the target
audience
Constructs the presentation in
such a way that ensures the
audio and visual elements are
logically organized
Presentation is constructed
with audio and visual elements,
but the organization is illogical
Does not construct the
presentation in such a way that
it is logically organized in order
to convey its message to the
target audience
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Presentation:
Evidence:
[IDS-400-05]

22. Meets “Proficient” criteria and
supporting evidence in the
presentation cogently conveys
the importance of critically
analyzing diversity
Provides supporting evidence
in the presentation that
supports the importance the
chosen issue or event and its
impact within diversity
Provides supporting evidence,
but it does not support the
importance of the chosen issue
or event and its impact within
diversity
Does not provide supporting
evidence that supports the
importance of the chosen issue
or event and its impact within
diversity
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Presentation: Flow:
[IDS-400-05]
Meets “Proficient” criteria and
the flow of the narration
cogently articulates the
importance of critically
analyzing diversity
Develops the audio narration

23. to logically flow with the
presentation to articulate the
importance of critically
analyzing the chosen issue or
event and its impact within
diversity
Develops the audio narration,
but it does not logically flow
with the presentation to
articulate the importance the
chosen issue or event and its
impact within diversity
Does not include audio
narration to articulate the
importance of the chosen issue
or event and its impact within
diversity
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5

24. Critical Elements Exemplary (100%) Proficient (85%) Needs
Improvement (55%) Not Evident (0%) Value
Articulation of
Response
Submission is free of errors
related to citations, grammar,
spelling, and syntax, and
organization and is presented
in a professional and easy-to-
read format
Submission has no major errors
related to citations, grammar,
spelling, syntax, or organization
Submission has major errors
related to citations, grammar,
spelling, syntax, or organization
that negatively impact
readability and articulation of
main ideas
Submission has critical errors
related to citations, grammar,
spelling, syntax, or organization
that prevent understanding of
ideas

25. 4
Total 100%
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