Explain how critically analyzing popular culture can help in your interactions with people with different viewpoints, cultures, or perspectives.

1. Critical Analysis: In this section, you will analyze the example and the area you chose using one of the general education lenses. You will then recommend strategies for using this kind of analysis to meet your personal and professional goals.
   1. Analyze the example and the area you chose through one of the general education interdisciplinary lenses to determine their impact on various institutions.
   2. Analyze how social, historical, or theoretical approaches have shaped the example and the area you chose.
   3. Describe how the example you chose could help someone better understand the world.
   4. Assess how the example you chose could broaden an outsider’s understanding of the cultures or societies depicted in it or the people who engage with its popular culture area.
      1. Consider how the example you chose could contribute to understanding others in productive ways that do not reinforce negative representations of other people.
   5. Describe how the example you chose reflects an aspect of your field of study or profession.
   6. Recommend strategies for using this kind of critical analysis for meeting your personal and professional goals.
      1. What might this look like in your everyday life? Consider how popular culture can be used to address the day-to-day responsibilities or questions faced by practitioners in your field or discipline.
2. Reflection: In this section, you will describe how using critical analysis tools influences your personal experience, your field of study or profession, how you interact with others.
   1. Describe how critically analyzing popular culture has informed your individual framework of perception.
      1. Consider how your analysis has altered the way you perceive the world.
   2. Describe how examining your bias may alter the way you engage with popular culture personally or professionally.
      1. Reflect on your own bias and then consider how an awareness of one’s bias can change how you interact with popular culture.
   3. Explain how critically analyzing wellness can influence your field of study or profession.
      1. How can popular culture inform your understanding of the next big topic of study in your field of study or profession?
   4. Explain at least one way in which your analysis might have been different if you had used one of the other general education lenses to analyze the example and are you chose.
   5. Describe how your analysis of the example you chose could be used in other aspects of your life.
   6. Explain how critically analyzing popular culture can help in your interactions with people with different viewpoints, cultures, or perspectives.

What to Submit

To complete this project, you must submit a Word document of 10 pages in length (plus a reference page) with 12-point Times New Roman font, double spacing, and one-inch margins. Use at least two resources from course materials and two resources from the library. Sources should be cited according to APA style. Consult the Shapiro Library APA Style Guide for more information on citations.