7-1 Project

Steps 1-2 are already complete on the other attachment. You will have to ONLY complete step 3 (Highlighted in yellow)

Course Outcomes

In this project, you will demonstrate your mastery of the following course outcomes:

· Utilize appropriate information literacy skills when researching topics using library resources

· Articulate the characteristics of various liberal arts lenses in determining their commonalities and differences

· Demonstrate how individual topics are represented through the application of various liberal arts lenses

Overview

As you move forward in your academic and professional careers, you will encounter many different perspectives around topics you are engaged in. One of the hallmarks of an open-minded person is the ability to recognize and appreciate the value of looking through different lenses to arrive at informed views. In this course, you have begun examining the world through the four lenses of the liberal arts.

For this project, you will go through the process of finding information on a topic of interest to you and viewing this topic through different lenses to get a more complete picture of the topic and its impact on you. This project will be based on one of the following topics and its provided resources in the library guide, which you chose in Module Three:

· Voting rights

· Climate change

· Justice

Directions

Read these directions and the rubric criteria. Check to make sure that you understand each requirement and reach out to your instructor if you have any questions before you begin.

Note: Your grade will be based more on the quality of your responses than on the number of examples you provide.

Introduction: The Four Lenses

1. Using the resources from this course, identify the characteristics of each of the four liberal arts lenses, the types of evidence they use, and the similarities and differences among them.

· Identify the key characteristics of each of the four lenses: social science, natural science, history, and the humanities.

· Be sure to include relevant points that help explain the characteristics.

· Identify the types of evidence used when looking through each lens.

· Determine similarities and differences among the lenses, based on the characteristics you have identified.

Researching Your Topic

2. For the topic you selected from the list above, determine what you know, what you want to know, and what you have learned about the topic from the provided resources in the library guide. You will need to use each of the four lenses in your responses.

· Know (K): Draw on previous and personal experiences to provide information about what you already know about your topic in relation to each lens.

· Want to know (W): Determine what you want to know about your topic in relation to the lenses.

· Be sure to phrase this information in the form of questions.

· What keywords would be helpful in exploring your topic?

· Learned (L): Answer the questions you posed about your topic using the provided resources in the library guide. If they are not answered by the resources, explain what steps you will take to answer them.

Applying the Lenses to Your Topic

3. Choose two of the four lenses you applied when researching your topic and examine the topic in greater detail.

· Topic and first lens: Examine your topic through your first lens.

· Be sure to identify the lens you selected.

· Write about what you learned in your examination. Use details and examples relevant to that lens from the resources in the library guide and the course.

· Topic and second lens: Examine your topic through your second lens.

· Be sure to identify the lens you selected.

· Write about what you learned in your examination. Use details and examples relevant to that lens from the resources in the library guide and the course.

· Similarities and differences: Explain the similarities and differences in how the lenses relate to your topic.

· Focus on the view you get when looking at your topic through both lenses.

· Further exploration: Determine the next steps for further exploration of the topic you have chosen.

· Determine questions to ask for further exploration of this topic. Would you continue to explore through the lenses you’ve chosen, or take another approach?

7-1 Project: Voting Rights

7-1 Project: Voting Rights

7-1 Project

Ayanna Knight

IDS-100-R3187 Perspectives in Liberal Arts 22EW3

Southern New Hampshire

February 6,2022

Characteristics of the four lenses of Arts

Social Science

The main characteristic of social science is the study of human societies. The use of scientific techniques to carry out research is another main evidence of justifying the characteristic of the social science discipline. In this context, social scientists use scientific methods to gather data and make conclusions about various issues much easier than researchers do in the hard sciences. Alternatively, the other distinguishing characteristic of social science is that researchers collaborate with colleagues to gather information and publish their findings. The researchers also rely on raw data such as statistics, survey results, observations, and interviews to make conclusions on matters.

Natural Science

Natural science refers to a branch of science concerned with explaining, understanding, and predicting natural occurrences based on experiential evidence from observations and experimentation (Karp, 2019). One of the main characteristics of natural science is that it involves mechanisms such as peer review and repeatability of findings to ensure the rationality of logical advancement. The main evidence of justifying natural science is that it can be broken down into three major categories: biology, chemistry, and physics.

History

The main characteristic of history is the historians’ ability to regularly support, evaluate and challenge their views. Historians mainly use detailed, appropriate, and accurate historical proofs derived from numerous sources. The main evidence of determining evidence is that historians can think, reflect, discuss the past remains one of the most prominent characteristics of the historical lens. Through history, historians can formulate and refine questions and lines of enquiry.

Humanities

The primary characteristic of humanities is that they are the disciplines concerned with studying distinctively human actions and works. Key evidence of justifying humanities is that it includes but is not limited to studying and interpreting archaeology, philosophy, ethics, and religion.

Similarities and Differences of the four liberal lenses of Arts

According to Nicholas (2018), the main difference between the four lenses is that each focus on a particular issue. History focuses on studying past events, whereas humanities mainly aim to study and compare cultures. On the other hand, natural science focuses on explaining, understanding, and predicting natural occurrences, whereas natural science focuses on studying human societies. In the long run, the major similarity is that each lens educates society about a particular concept.

Part 2: Topic Proposal

Climatic Change

According to Murakami et al., (2020), climate change refers to the periodical shifts in temperatures and weather patterns that defines the earth’s local, regional, and global climates. Understanding climate change is important because it helps people predict and prepare for the future. In this topic, I would like to know more about the impacts of climate change on society.

Know (K)

Drawing on the past individual’s experiences, the information that I know concerning this topic is that people have been provided or offered their rights to vote but this is not essentially the ideal case. Despite having been provided with the voting rights, there are other individuals especially the superior and those in the senior ranks that tend to deny people of such entitlements. Therefore, as per this lens, I am aware that people have been provided with their rights to vote but they may end up not exercising it due to certain reasons.

What I want to know

As for the concerned topic, the information that I would like to know is that what leads to people being restricted to vote despite that they are entitled to do so as per the law? The keywords in this case include the voting rights, denial, alienation, and misuse of power(s). the above words are highly important when it comes to the exploration of this topic. Therefore, the above question is important in examining what is preventing or hindering people from voting despite that they are entitled to do so.

What has been learned

As far as this topic is concerned, an essential information has been learned and the ideal thing that has been studied is that people are entitled to vote (voting rights) but this is not always the case, (Johnson, 2014). The ideal reason is that there is other characterization of individuals such as race, age, groups and educational levels or even the influence from the senior and prominent individuals. As these people or other influences try to influence the outcome of the elections, then there arises the possibility of denying people their rights to vote

References

Karp, R. M. (2019, May 2). Understanding science through the computational lens. Journal of

Computer Science and Technology, 26(4), 569-577. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11390-011-1157-0

Murakami, H., Delworth, T. L., Cooke, W. F., Zhao, M., Xiang, B., & Hsu, P. C. (2020). Detected climatic change in the global distribution of tropical cyclones. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(20), 10706-10714. https://www.pnas.org/content/117/20/10706.short

Nicholas, J. M. (2018). Marketable selves: Making sense of employability as a liberal art undergraduate. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 109, 1-13. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0001879118301027

Johnson, P. C. (2014). Voting rights and Civil Rights Era Cold Cases: Section Five and the Five Cities’ Project. Berkeley J. Aft.-Am. L. & Pol’y, 16, 377.

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Forsyth D. R. (2018). The essential functions that are played by attributions of work.

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