Provide an analysis of the social phenomenon of stigmas around mental illness in order to better understand human behavior. Program Learning Objective 1: Apply analytic skills to social phenomena in order to understand human behavior. The analysis must be based in at least one of the following techniques or modes of analysis: • Compare/Contrast (point-by-point or block style) • Causal Analysis (show causes and effects involved in the phenomenon’s appearance and impact) • Future Orientation (show implications of the phenomenon’s persistence) • Statistical (show the significance of the phenomenon through quantitative research) • Descriptive and/or Narrative (show the significance of the phenomenon through qualitative research) • Socio-historical analysis (demonstrate through a historical analysis of the phenomenon in our society and/or another society) • SWOT (show the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats of two different views of the phenomenon) • Socio-political (demonstrate through past political actions and/or current suggested political actions regarding the phenomenon)
