Unit 14 Signature Assignment

FO612 Signature Assignment Instructions Signature Assignment

A signature assignment is an assignment, task, activity, project, or exam used to collect evidence of student learning for a specific program learning outcome(s). The PLO rubric is used to assess the signature assignment and the cumulative results are used as part of a program’s reporting on student learning in the annual report or self-study. Other coursework can build toward the signature assignment, meaning that the signature assignment integrates cumulative knowledge of what the student learned in a particular course or set of courses for a particular program learning outcome(s). Like other assignments, a signature assignment is graded numerically to be factored into the final course grade.

For the signature assignment for this course, students will apply Erik Erikson’s 8 stages of psychosocial development to the case study. Throughout the case study, students should gather information related to examples of struggles between the opposing tendencies within each developmental stage the adult experienced. In order to gather information that is of importance to each stage, students will need to be familiar with Erikson’s sequence of stages, conflicts that may occur within each stage, and healthy or maladaptive outcomes at each stage:

• Basic trust versus mistrust (Birth-1 year)

• Autonomy versus shame and doubt (1-3 years)

• Initiative versus guilt (3-6 years)

• Industry versus inferiority (6-11 years)

• Identity versus role confusion (Adolescence)

• Intimacy versus isolation (Early adulthood)

• Generativity versus stagnation (Middle adulthood)

• Integrity versus despair (Late adulthood) Students will write a 7-10 paper including title page and references in APA style format addressing each stage in Erikson’s theory as it applies to the case study. Students will define each stage and will discuss how the individual resolves or does not resolve the issue(s) that form and contribute to the struggles within each stage. Students may integrate additional theorists and theories within their paper, however Erikson’s stages of psychosocial development should be the primary reference in the paper. The grading rubric follows the case study, totally 100 points.