Focused Topics Assignment: Module 13

As you can see in the Table of Contents in our textbook, each chapter is divided into several specific topic sections. Because this is a survey course and we breeze by many issues very quickly, this assignment provides the opportunity for you to consider and comment more deeply on specific topics of interest to you. Select five topic sections from any chapters and write a few paragraphs (3-4) about each topic, summarizing key points of the section and what you learned from it (why this topic is  interesting or applicable to you). Please include the chapter and topic title of the five topics you summarize and respond to. This assignment (which is to include all 5 topic summaries) is worth 50 points. The summary of all five topics are to be included in one submission (just like the regular weekly assignment). Please number the topics 1-5 for clear organization in the paper. Late work is not accepted. Remember that this assignment is available to work on beginning the first day of the term.

For example, if I were completing this assignment, I might choose the following (just as you will choose the ones that are most interesting to you):

Chapter 2: Prenatal brain development

Chapter 4: Self-concept and self-esteem

Chapter 6: Parents and teens: Autonomy and attachment

Chapter 7: Sexism

Chapter 10: Models of Grief