Social Inequality

Writing your problem statement helps you clearly identify the purpose of your project. This Challenge activity will help you see what gaps you have in your skills or knowledge, and then support you in your quest to fill those gaps and move forward in your project. Please see the attached Challenge Questions, which are the questions you will be asked in this activity. Once you are prepared to answer them you may begin the challenge.
Instructions
Click the Start the Quiz button below to start this activity. You will be presented with several questions about the problem you're going to solve for your capstone project. This activity is required, however, it does not impact your overall grade.
When you are finished answering the questions, click the Submit Quiz button. After your instructor has time to review your submission, the next activities will open for you. As you might see when you hover over the "next" button, you may need to refresh the page to view.
There is not a specific due date for this activity, but please remember that you will need to complete your project before the end of the course term and your instructor needs time to review your work. Please review the suggested timeline (course matrix) to stay on track.
1. What is the contemporary global issue or problem (social, cultural, or environmental) you intend to research? Your topic must be grounded in contemporary research and practice. Write the problem as a statement (one sentence).
Example: Access to safe water is a basic human need that is not being met in much of the world today.
2. How does this problem relate to your academic and professional journeys? You need to demonstrate how your topic relates to the experiences and concepts you've learned in academic classes and through professional work. This project should show focus and depth of knowledge about a field or discipline, so explaining this connection of your topic to what you've learned in your courses and work is very important.
Example: The right to access safe water relates to Environmental Studies (the discipline in which I have taken the most courses, and where I plan to work in the future) in that industrial and agricultural policies lead to pollution and depletion areas.
3. Why is this global problem significant? Explain why others should care, and the impact it has on world-wide populations. Properly cite at least one credible source of evidence to support your answer and provide an APA formatted reference for your citation.
Example: Depletion of fresh water is a dire consequence of population growth, climate change, and modern industrial and agricultural practices. A huge percentage of the human population already has little to no access to clean fresh water, so it is already a quality of life issue that could easily factor into global unrest.
4. What role do issues of cultural diversity play in your global problem?
Explain specific examples that have helped to cause the problem and/or can be part of the solution. Properly cite at least one credible source of evidence to support your answer and provide an APA formatted reference for your citation.