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• ABS 497 Entire Course (Ash Course)
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• wABS 497 Week 1 Assignment Community Change
• ABS 497 Week 1 DQ 1 Fabian's Story
• ABS 497 Week 1 DQ 2 Doug's Story
• ABS 497 Week 2 DQ 1 Parenting Styles
• ABS 497 Week 2 DQ 2 Ethnicity and Learning Theory
• ABS 497 Week 3 DQ 1 Suicide
• ABS 497 Week 3 DQ 2 Development Theories
• ABS 497 Week 3 Assignment communication
  PowerPoint Presentation
• ABS 497 Week 4 DQ 1 Leadership Theories
• ABS 497 Week 4 DQ 2 Problems of Adolescence

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• ABS 497 Week 1 Assignment Community Change
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• Community Change. Write a two- to- three- page
  paper (excluding title and reference pages) that
  identifies a problem faced by your community.
  Discuss how a model of community change could be
  implemented to improve the problem.
• 1. Describe six features of your community (e.g.,
  cultural make up, size, and locality).
• 2. Define the problem (e.g., obesity,
  environmental pollution, teenage pregnancy,
  graffiti, truancy, gangs, drugs, child labor, or
  insufficient educational programs) and explain
  why the problem is detrimental to the community.

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• ABS 497 Week 1 DQ 1 Fabian's Story
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• Fabians Story. Read Fabians story in the Human
  Behavior and Community Macro Systems
  Sociopsychological Perspective section of your
  textbook. Briefly describe the sociopsychological
  perspective and compare it to at least one other
  perspective the book discusses. How can the
  sociopsychological perspective be used to
  understand, and perhaps solve, Fabians issue? Is
  there another perspective that would offer a
  better solution? Explain your answers.

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• ABS 497 Week 1 DQ 2 Doug's Story
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• Dougs Story. Read Dougs story in the Human
  Ecology Perspective section of your textbook.
  Respond to the ethical questions that follow. To
  what extent is economic inequality fair? Did Doug
  have the right to vent his anger in such a
  violent manner? What, if anything, could be done
  to improve Dougs economic and ecological status?

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• ABS 497 Week 2 DQ 1 Parenting Styles
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• Parenting Styles. Briefly describe the different
  parenting styles discussed in this weeks
  readings. How could they impact cognitive and
  social development? Identify the style that your
  parents applied to you, or the style you apply to
  your children. What do the readings say about the
  effects of this parenting style on cognitive and
  social development? Is this evidence supported by
  your own experiences?

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• ABS 497 Week 2 DQ 2 Ethnicity and Learning Theory
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• Ethnicity and Learning Theory. Select an ethnic
  group from your textbook, or outside readings,
  and discuss how the application of learning
  theory may vary according to the cultural beliefs
  and values of this group. Based on the research,
  justify why you think specific learning
  techniques could be used by your chosen ethnic
  group.
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• ABS 497 Week 3 Assignment communication
  PowerPoint Presentation
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• Communication PowerPoint Presentation. Develop a
  10- to12-- slide PowerPoint Presentation designed
  for training the staff at a local high school.
  The PowerPoint Presentation should focus on
  strategies that promote communication skills
  among adolescents. Students are encouraged to
  approach the assignment creatively, adding
  graphics, visuals, charts and/or graphs to their
  work. Slides should be designed to address the
  selected topic clearly and concisely. Each slide
  should be developed with professional
  presentation style (e.g., bulleted items in brief
  statements rather than complete sentences). Notes
  should complement the slides and provide details
  useful to the speaker if an oral presentation
  were to be given.

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• ABS 497 Week 3 DQ 1 Suicide
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• Suicide. Chapter 7 of the textbook discusses
  adolescent suicide. Select a group that could be
  considered a minority (e.g., Hispanics,
  homosexuals, or students with learning
  disabilities) and discuss the potential suicide
  risk for this group. What factors may make them
  more or less likely to attempt suicide than other
  groups? What support can be given to individuals
  and/or groups to decrease suicide attempts? Rely
  on research findings to answer these questions.
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• ABS 497 Week 3 DQ 2 Development Theories
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• Development Theories. Select either Kohlbergs
  theory of moral development, Gilligans theory of
  moral development, or Fowlers theory of faith
  development. Discuss the strengths and weaknesses
  of your selected theory. Which stage of your
  selected theory, do you think that you are
  currently experiencing? Provide examples to
  reinforce your answer.

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• ABS 497 Week 4 DQ 1 Leadership Theories
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• Leadership Theories. Briefly compare and contrast
  the leadership theories presented in Chapter 8 of
  your textbook. Select a historical figure (living
  or dead) who has been a leader. Use one of the
  theories to explain the successes and failures of
  the leader you selected. What type of leader does
  your historical figure exemplify?

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• ABS 497 Week 4 DQ 2 Problems of Adolescence
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• Problems of Adolescence. Describe a major problem
  often experienced by adolescents (e.g., anorexia
  nervosa, bulimia nervosa, or delinquency). What
  are its likely causes? How is the problem
  typically treated? Identify alternative
  treatments that could be more effective. Rely on
  research evidence to support your views.
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• ABS 497 Week 5 DQ Macro Social Systems
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• Macro Social Systems. Outline the three macro
  systems theories discussed in Chapter 12 of your
  textbook (functionalism, conflict theory, and
  interactionism). Describe how each of these
  perspectives would explain the macro system
  problem of crime and delinquency. Which approach
  do you support the most? Explain your reasoning.
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• ABS 497 Week 5 Final Paper
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• Final Paper
• To complete the following final paper, go to
  this week's Final Paper link in the left
  navigation.
• Final Paper
• Focus of the Final PaperImagine that you are a
  researcher and are conducting a study to
  investigate a community problem. Using behavioral
  research principles, select a macro systems
  problem to investigate (there are many suggested
  in the textbook, e.g. domestic violence,
  homophobia, sexual abuse, delinquent gangs) and
  design a study to solve this community problem.

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