Assignment Task
Instructions
This assessment involves two parts: Part A, a group presentation and Part B, an individual summary of the presentation. Collectively this assessment contributes of your grade for this unit.
Some suggestions of contemporary social issues you might consider are a recent debate or event related to:
Asylum seekers or refugeesEnvironmental issues
Part A
Visual/PowerPoint presentation (group) In the slideshow presentation, you need to include:
A title page that informs the audience of the social issue you have selected, your names, student numbers and the name of your teacher.Representation of the contemporary social issue (through pictures, graphs, art etc.) This will require you to research the social issue, identify some key arguments or points that need to be communicated about it and to nchoose how best to communicate these key issues. Your individual written submissions (below) will go into details about what your Power Point is visually showing, so your PowerPoint may not have a lot of words.Demonstration of familiarity with at least two key sociological concepts in relation to your selected issue.
These key issues. Your individual written submissions (below) will go into details about what your PowerPoint is visually showing, so your PowerPoint may not have a lot of words.
Demonstration of familiarity with at least two key sociological concepts in relation to your selected issue.Final slide with a reference list that follows APA 7th conventions. This reference list will include citations for the images/graphs etc. that you used as well as key theories and news reports referred to.The PowerPoint slides should be uploaded to the assessment dropbox by one group member after the presentation has been presented in class.
Explanation and analysis of this using at least two sociological concepts and a historical overview of how this inequality emerged. Some suggestions of contemporary social issues you might consider are a recent debate or event related to:
Asylum seekers or refugeesEnvironmental issuesSame sex marriageYouth unemploymentOlder women and the growing number who are homelessLack of government income support for temporary visa holders during COVIDOr make a case for selecting another recent debate related to social inequality
