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Individual Cultural Communication Written Assignment  (Worth 20% of Final Grade)

Complete a written paper (on a word document) about your culture. This paper requires correct grammar, punctuation, and APA format.

Requirements: 

Use the following questions below as a template and address all questions within your written assignment.

The paper is worth 100 points (20%) of your course grade. A minimum of Three (3) references are required. References can come from a refereed journal article, course textbook, and or an Internet source.

You are expected to report on your cultural topic in a Four -Five pages (Excluding Title and Reference Page) typed word document. The assignment should be typed out on a Word Document with no larger than size 12 font, font names that should be used, times new roman or Calabria (not both), normal margins (no more than 1 inch), double spaced.

The following should be included in your assignment.

Assignment Layout:

1. Title Page:

•   Student Name (First and Last), Student Panther ID Number and Title

2. Introduction:

• Describe what is Cultural Competency
• Identify and describe your cultural ancestry. If you have more than one cultural ancestry, chose the one with which you most closely associate.

3. Assignment Content (Body of Paper):

• Explore and describe the willingness of individuals in your culture to share thoughts, feelings, and ideas. Can you identify any area of discussion that would be considered taboo?
• Explore and describe the practice and meaning of touch in your culture. Include information regarding touch between family members, friends, members of the opposite sex, and health-care providers.
• Identify and describe personal spatial and distancing strategies used when communicating with others in your culture. Discuss differences between friends and families versus strangers.
• Discuss your culture’s use of eye contact. Include information regarding practices between family members, friends, strangers, and persons of different age groups.
• Explore and describe the meaning of gestures and facial expressions in your culture. Do specific gestures or facial expressions have special meanings? How are emotions displayed?
• Discuss if there are acceptable ways of standing and greeting people in your culture?
• Discuss the prevailing temporal relation of your culture. Is the culture’s worldview past, present, or future oriented? Prevailing temporal relations meaning, how do your culture perceive healthcare in general. Does your culture utilize certain remedies? Are they more relax about receiving proper healthcare? Do they seek a healthcare provider if their health is failing? How often they try to seek medical attention?
• Discuss the impact of your culture in healthcare or within a healthcare setting.

4. Conclusion (Closing thoughts):

• Discuss your closing thoughts (hypnotically), on how will your culture perceive healthcare in the future.
• Discuss how being culturally competent will have an effect on you as a future healthcare administrator.

5. References:

• Provide a separate References page of the sources used for your written assignment (APA format).
• Three references are required. You can use the course textbook, articles and or any credible resource, etc. as an additional references.  Make sure you cite your sources whenever paraphrasing or directly quoting someone else’s work.

Grading Rubric:

For your written assignment the body of your paper should be a minimum of 4-5 full pages (excludes title and reference pages). Each paragraph should consist of 4-6 complete sentences.