Challenges to Sustainability: Social Inequality and Conflict

Assigned Readings

Select three articles about related topics from the Additional Resources.

Class Preparation

Step 1. Identify a PIN related to social inequality or conflict that is of interest to you. Make sure some of the articles you select address how population growth, technological change, urbanization and globalization are related to your PIN. Select articles with distinctive viewpoints that will give you good ideas about how how different processes interact to create the PIN of interest.

Step 2. Identify at least 20 concepts, processes, themes, or conditions that are related to your PIN, making sure to include some related to urbanization, some to population growth, and some to globalization. "Related" means they contribute to the cause of the PIN, they affect how the PIN is expressed, or they influence who (class, race, gender) is affected most by the pin. If you start with more concepts, processes, themes or conditions, the last step in your class preparation will be easier.

Step 3. Develop a concept map showing the relationship of at least 10 concepts, processes, themes or conditions to your pin. This can be a fairly simple concept map. In essence, this is a practice exercise for Assignment 2. Make sure you "group" the themes, processes, conditions and concepts. Post your concept map to the discussion board. You will work in pairs in class based on similar interests.

I found this site with a good explanation of the steps involved in making a concept map AND some free templates that might help you put yours together. I suggest you just use the templates as examples and make your own version. I think the tutorial is better than the other resources I provided. The teamplates are fine, but I always fear using online resources from companies because they almost always end up asking you for money. Templates 1 and 3 are more like what you need than Template 2. I suggest you use this resource. I think it will save you a LOT of time on this class preparation. Spend your time thinking about what goes into the concept map, not the fundamentals of making one.

https://www.wickedproblems.com/5_concept_mapping.php

Concept Mapping Resource Guide

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