Overview
In this Topic 7 assignment, you will complete a literature review to use in the policy brief assignment due in Topic 8. In Topic 8, you will complete a policy brief related to one of the content areas covered throughout this course.
Literature Review
Select a social issue/problem with a clearly delineated topic in one of the 10 social welfare content areas and identify a topic suitable for proposing a policy change. You will use this same social welfare problem in the Topic 7 and 8 assignments.
- Using the GCU library, conduct a literature review in which you list five current (published within the last 5 years) peer-reviewed scholarly sources of relevance to your topic in APA reference format.
- Review each source and explain the following about each source:
- How the source relates to your selected topic (50-60 words).
- Describe the social issues/problem topic in one of the 10 social welfare content areas suitable for proposing a policy change (50-60 words).
- Prepare a “statement of the issue” (300-500 words), supported with information drawn from your selected scholarly sources.