FINAL GROUP PROJECT
This final project of the semester is designed to simulate workplace demands
for productive group processes as well as to address
issues of ethical importance to the next century. Further, it
exposes students to the standards for preparing a
poster session at a professional conference in your discipline,
following either MLA or APA standards as appropriate. It is the responsibility
of the group members to communicate, whether electronically, by telephone, or
in person, to coordinate this presentation.
GOALS
This project serves several purposes:
- to enable students divided by
distance to work closely together
- to promote creativity and
cyber communication skills in coordinating group efforts
- to involve students in serious
ethical issues which may confront them already within their majors or
affect them in their future careers
- to provide the opportunity to
exercise communication skills
- to create a shared awareness
of the impact of ethical dilemmas on other professional groups
- to provide a forum for poster
presentations which follow professionally acceptable guidelines
- to promote audience awareness
within and outside of one's major field
SUBJECT
Each group, usually divided by major, will identify and agree upon an ethical
issue within the major or related field, which is now or will be in the future
an unresolved issue for a significant section of the professional population.
The task of the work group is to prepare a poster which covers the following
content:
- the background of history
which led up to this dilemma
- the nature of the problem at
present and in the future
- the existing controls or lack
thereof which impact the issue
- the impact of the issue on
professionals and on students or trainees
- (most
important) concrete and practicable proposal(s) for ethical codes,
industry standards, or other approaches to control/correct this
difficulty. This should be the focus of the poster.
RESOURCES
Tutorials on preparing and evaluating conference posters can be found in the
file "Resources
for Preparing Poster Presentations."
PRESENTATION
The group will present its materials in a manner which includes the
following elements:
- a
file which contains the formatted poster, with content typed into the
file, following in either MLA or APA and Psi Chi
guidelines. It may be posted to WebCT's
assignments by any group member. (Group members NOT submitting the poster
file should each post a small file to that assignment so that they can
receive their grades and feedback from the instructor.)
- a
bibliography of ten or more sources consulted for this presentation.
Expert human sources are encouraged. It should appear both on the poster
and in the handout
- an evaluation
by each group member of their own and other members' participation. This
last should be completed by each individual group member and posted to WebCT’s Submit Assignments individually
Each group will submit the following by e-mail to the instructor. These
items with be due to the instructor on the presentation due date
- a sheet listing members'
names and individual responsibilities --one sheet per group
- a brief diary of the group's
approach, work processes, problems, triumphs, and final results --one
sheet per group
GRADING
The presentation itself will be evaluated on these criteria:
- choice of an appropriate and
important ethical concern by each group
- clear identification of the
ethical questions presented
- thorough presentation of the
implications and practical problems posed by the topic
- quality of solutions to the
ethical dilemma selected
- quality of the poster as
evaluated by the instructor
- relevance and conciseness of
the handout
- adherence to formal
requirements for poster preparation
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