Many of you have career plans that will necessitate advanced degrees and/or education beyond your B.A. or B.S. This means that at some point you will need to write a statement of purpose or personal statement. Admission to a graduate program of any kind is highly competitive–and is not based solely on G.P.A. When I applied to my Ph.D. program, almost 500 others did too, and we competed for 12 spots! Your application will include many things: transcripts, GRE/MCAT/other exam scores, letters of recommendation. The ONE part of your application that tells an admissions committee (and these are professors in the field) why you should be admitted is your statement of purpose.  In it, you need to address a number of things in a very limited space: what prompted your interest, what are your qualifications, how do you see yourself contributing to the graduate program and to the profession, why that specific program.

Even if you do not plan to go beyond your undergraduate degree, this is an opportunity for you to explore your career interest or, if you are still undecided, possible career interests. 

I’ve served on numerous admissions committees and helped dozens of students over the years get into med school, dental school, PT programs, various Ph.D. programs, law school, etc. This assignment asks you to really think about why you are passionate about the career you want to pursue or the major you are in.

As with assignment two, you must meet the expectations of a specific audience–in this case, an admissions committee. As such, do some research. If you are interested in specific programs (say, UCLA med school), you should follow their requirements.

As I said, if you do not have specific goals, use this opportunity to think hard about what you like about your major and the classes you have taken or look forward to taking. Take a look at your major department’s web site. Look at course descriptions. Especially look at your professors’ bios and cvs. What kinds of research interest them. What have they published. Read some of their articles. Most of you are transfer students, so this is a great opportunity for you to get to know the professors and the work they do.

This pdf contains some information about personal statements that I found on the Ohio State University website. It also include a sample statement that my niece, Kate, wrote. Kate has kindly given permission for me to do so. She went to Minnesota, not Ohio State, but you will notice that her statement includes much of what the OSU handouts suggest. Kate probably wrote more than 50 drafts of her statement before sending it with her application to Minnesota’s Ph.D. program in mathematics. Note the order and type of details she includes–typical for any kind of program. The one thing I do not like about her statement is the mention of the boyfriend. Someone on an application committee could read this two ways: 1.) that she is would be committed to Minnesota and not to another university, and this is good OR 2.) that the ONLY reason she wants to come to Minnesota is that her boyfriend is there, and this isn’t in her favor as far as an admissions committee is concerned. Leave such personal info out. As far as length goes: Kate’s is about right. You don’t want yours to be longer than hers, but not much shorter either.

One of the major flaws in most people’s writing is wordiness. For this assignment, especially, every word, every phrase, every paragraph, must contribute to your purpose.

Competency

This competency will allow you to demonstrate your ability to create a presentation for colleagues that will highlight the benefits of technological growth and how such growth impacts society’s structure, organizational structure, individual identity, and language.

Instructions

You have recently started working for a local department store in the Operations Department. Upon settling into your new position, you come to realize that they have outdated business practices. In your past work experience, you have utilized various forms of technology to complete daily job functions and have been part of updating technology to meet the demands of your organization. Technological advances can address all areas of the business including, but not limited to, how applicants apply for positions, the type of phone and computer systems operated, cash register functions, marketing methods, etc.

You have shared your thoughts with your supervisor, and he has tasked you with putting together a narrated presentation, with visuals for your peers, to share the overall benefits of utilizing modern technology to help improve overall efficiency for the business and help to expand the consumer base for the store.

For this narrated visual presentation, you are to reflect upon and include discussion of the following topics or categories:

• Demonstrate how digital and technological growth can assist the organization:
  • Provide a definition for digital growth.
  • Explain how digital growth has impacted organizations.
  • Describe how digital growth impacts society as a whole and your store in the future.
• Demonstrate how an individual creates their own digital identity, how it can impact organizational identity, and how these can be impacted by changes to technology:
  • Explain some key methods of identity development.
  • How can technology and digital forums help with personal or organizational identity formation?
  • What do individuals and employees as a whole have to do with developing the identity of an organization?
• Demonstrate challenges and benefits to upgrading technological resources:
  • Describe main sociological theories that can describe an individual or a store’s ability to access technological resources.
  • Identify some key examples of societal change due to technology. What does this imply for your store?
  • What is the digital divide and how can this impact the use of technology in your store?
• Examine your organization through a sociological perspective and explain benefits of change to the organization:
  • Conflict Theory – How is it defined and how would a Conflict Theorist justify upgrades in technology
  • Symbolic Interaction Theory – How is it defined and how would a Symbolic Interactionist justify or explain the need for upgrades to technology?
  • Outline additional theories that can help explain the need for technological growth at your store.
• Demonstrate the ability to evaluate the evolution of language within online environments and with the use of enhanced technology:
  • Examine some of the changes to technology that have impact language and communication.
  • Discuss differences in access to and familiarity with technology such as generational differences, socioeconomic differences, etc. How might this impact your store?
  • Consider how communication could change within your store for employees and consumers with various types of technology.
• Demonstrate how deviance in the physical and virtual world could impact your store:
  • Provide a definition deviance in both the physical and the virtual world.
  • Explain how deviant behaviors have led to changes at your store and what considerations should be taken into account when upgrading technology at your store.

Consider Conflict Theory and Symbolic Interaction theory and how they would explain deviance and a method to overcome it at your store. On your final narrated visual, provide a summary that directly ties together your visuals and discussion points, and provide an overall statement of the benefits of updating technological resources to help the store run more efficiently.

Do NOT Narrate for me. Just put notes in the notes section notes for the current slide.

The Assignment: 5 pages

Examine Case Study: An African American Child Suffering From Depression (Link: https://cdnfiles.laureate.net/2dett4d/Walden/NURS/6521/05/mm/decision_trees/week_02/index.html). You will be asked to make three decisions concerning the medication to prescribe to this patient. Be sure to consider factors that might impact the patient’s pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic processes.

At each decision point, you should evaluate all options before selecting your decision and moving throughout the exercise. Before you make your decision, make sure that you have researched each option and that you evaluate the decision that you will select. Be sure to research each option using the primary literature.

Introduction to the case (1 page)

• Briefly explain and summarize the case for this Assignment. Be sure to include the specific patient factors that may impact your decision making when prescribing medication for this patient.

Decision #1 (1 page)

• Which decision did you select?
• Why did you select this decision? Be specific and support your response with clinically relevant and patient-specific resources, including the primary literature.
• Why did you not select the other two options provided in the exercise? Be specific and support your response with clinically relevant and patient-specific resources, including the primary literature.
• What were you hoping to achieve by making this decision? Support your response with evidence and references to the Learning Resources (including the primary literature).
• Explain how ethical considerations may impact your treatment plan and communication with patients. Be specific and provide examples.

Decision #2 (1 page)

• Why did you select this decision? Be specific and support your response with clinically relevant and patient-specific resources, including the primary literature.
• Why did you not select the other two options provided in the exercise? Be specific and support your response with clinically relevant and patient-specific resources, including the primary literature.
• What were you hoping to achieve by making this decision? Support your response with evidence and references to the Learning Resources (including the primary literature).
• Explain how ethical considerations may impact your treatment plan and communication with patients. Be specific and provide examples.

Decision #3 (1 page)

• Why did you select this decision? Be specific and support your response with clinically relevant and patient-specific resources, including the primary literature.
• Why did you not select the other two options provided in the exercise? Be specific and support your response with clinically relevant and patient-specific resources, including the primary literature.
• What were you hoping to achieve by making this decision? Support your response with evidence and references to the Learning Resources (including the primary literature).
• Explain how ethical considerations may impact your treatment plan and communication with patients. Be specific and provide examples.

Conclusion (1 page)

Summarize your recommendations on the treatment options you selected for this patient. Be sure to justify your recommendations and support your response with clinically relevant and patient-specific resources, including the primary literature.

Note: Support your rationale with a minimum of five academic resources. 

organizations  must begin a diversity journey by understanding the current talent in their workforce, including breakdowns by gender, race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, and more.  Just having diversity is not enough. To reap the benefits from increased diversity, organizations need to work toward inclusion.Leaders looking to increase diversity in their organizations are often asked to “make the case” for why it is necessary. During this course, it has been highlighted that diversity and inclusion in the workplace can lead to increased revenue, reduced costs, more significant innovation, and increased employee engagement, productivity, and commitment.

The first step for senior leaders interested in building a diversity and inclusion program is to create a specific business case on how diversity, inclusion, acceptance, and belonging will improve the organization. Write a business case for your organization.  Include both internal and external subject matter.

Internal topics should address the following:

• Recruiting
• Hiring
• Promoting
• Recognition
• Employee Benefits

Internal topics should address the following:

• Customers
• Vendors
• Business partners

8 pgs must be in APA format Make sure to adhere to the CSU Global Guide to Writing and APA Formatting  (Links to an external site.). Review the grading rubric for this assignment, to understand exactly how you will be graded. Contact yo

In this unit, we learned about different institutions like family, education, religion, and health care that influence society. For the Unit VII assignment, you will answer a series of response questions applying concepts you learned in this unit and previous units regarding sociological perspectives, groups, and social structures. The following concepts in the course textbook will be useful in helping you complete the assignment: Three Sociological Perspectives, Social Class, Elements of Social Structure, and Health Care in the United States.

For this assignment, complete Part A, Part B, Part C, and Part D as follows:

Part A: Visit a government healthcare website and briefly discuss a current government healthcare program. Discuss at least three facts about this program. This information can be found on the government healthcare website, your textbook, or web resources.

Part B: How would a functionalist, conflict theorist, and interactionist explain the government healthcare program discussed in Part A?

Part C: Explain how two or more social structures (statuses, roles, groups, social networks, and/or social institutions) affect one’s access to quality and affordable health care in American Society.

Part D: What are your personal beliefs about the current American healthcare system? In your discussion, explain how at least two groups you belong to (e.g., family, gender, race, class, religion, and politics) influenced the development of your beliefs concerning our current healthcare system.

For this assignment, ensure you follow the requirements below:

1. Answer ALL the questions listed in Part A, Part B, Part C, and Part D in your assignment.

2. Please answer the response questions in essay-style format. You will not be rewriting each question and answering it. You will be creating an essay that addresses the response questions.

3. Use sociological terms and concepts from the textbook reading in your essay to demonstrate you understand and can apply the concepts.

4. Cite the textbook or a web source at least once in the essay. APA style in-text citations are required to show how the textbook was used in your essay. An APA style reference list containing the textbook and any other sources you cited in the assignment is also required. 

5. The essay should be four pages and should use the following APA style components: APA style title page, double-spaced, 1-inch margins, and 12-point font.

Note: The rubric for this assignment contains a task section. Your task score is based on: (a) meeting the page requirement; (b) whether unit terms and concepts are directly identified and specifically labeled; (c) all parts of each question are directly answered and clearly demonstrated; and (d) whether at least one source was cited.