Communications Question

Post ID: 3275690

Overview

COMMUNITY ISSUE: Your community will run out of water 10 years from now. You are the Community Leader.

ASSIGNMENT: Your final project, COMMUNITOPIA, provides the greatest opportunity for you to express your comprehension of the course material by allowing you to be creative and show your ability to ‘think outside the box’ about community development.

This submission is your best effort to create a perfect or utopian community by demonstrating how you address and possibly ‘solve’ the community issue of water shortage in the most creative manner you can.

By the time you submit, all of the components (terms) that need to be covered in this project will have been covered through class discussions, announcements, or resources this semester. Your final grade for the course consists of you responding to the 12 numbered prompts below in the form of a Google Slides or Microsoft Powerpoint presentation.

POINTS:

300 points are available for this assignment. The points for each section are noted in the rubric (below).

UPDATED RUBRIC:

SECTION	ASSIGNMENT COMPONENT	DETAILS	POINTS
I.	Explain why the community you created is unique; utopian. Tell your Communitopian story; paint the picture! Include the following about your community:	• Name of your project (your choice) • Demographics (of people living there) • Geography where community is located (ex. mountainous, waterfront, plains, etc) • Size (population and physical size) • Type (rural, urban, mixed)	30
II.	State how you learned about this community	Describe in narrative format	10
III.	Address the community Issue	Explain the cause of the issue- i.e., What happened? How long has the issue existed? Which community members are most concerned? Why? Explain degree of issue- i.e., How bad is it? How do you know how much of an issue it is? What data & sources did you use? Had efforts been made to address the issue before you got there? If so, what were they? Why are you concerned? Why did you decide to focus on this community? What are you getting out of it? personally professionally culturally Explain repercussions within community- What effect has the issue had on the population and community as a whole?	50
IV.	Provide your Mission Statement	How will you address the issue with community input?	15
V.	Provide your Vision for Project	Describe what the community can look like if the issue is resolved	15
VI.	Provide 2 Objectives for Project	How you will attempt to get the issue resolved? Clearly stated Objective 1 Clearly stated Objective 2	20
VII.	Address top community concerns as a result of issue	State most prevalent community assumptions State most prevalent assumptions of those outside of this community State source of assumptions (how do you know what is being assumed?	30
VIII.	Present the results of your assessment of the community (water) issue	Method of assessing - How you determined the problem Ex: community survey Response rate -Number/percentage of people who participated in the assessment Results of assessment Needs findings (what is needed?) Capacity findings (what is already there?) Qualitative data (what is the community saying?)	30
IX.	Clearly state your method of presenting resolution plan to community	Format of delivery (ex: town hall, existing community mtg, etc.) Venue (where was your plan was presented)