A Visit from the LGBTQ Fairy Godmother

Imagine that you wake up tomorrow morning and discover that, while you are the same person inside, your physical body has been transformed into that of the opposite sex.

1. Visualize your new body, and imagine how you would feel. 
2. What do you foresee as being the biggest advantages or most exciting possibilities associated with this physical transformation?
3. What do you foresee as the biggest disadvantages or sources of distress?
4. Remember that your personality, your sexual preferences and desires remain the same as they were the night before, but now you must live in the    world with a different sexual body.  So, if you identified as heterosexual before, you now fit the criteria for a homosexual person.  However, if you  identified as homosexual before, you now fit the criteria for a heterosexual person.  If you identify as bisexual, you are now bisexual of a different sex/gender.
5. How would others perceive you?  Think about significant others, acquaintances and strangers.
6. How would you feel about yourself?
7. If your gender identity matched your sex before this change(female identifying as woman; male identifying as man), then you are now transgendered.  If you were transgendered before, then your sex now matches your gender identity.
8. How would you cope with this aspect of your new reality?
9. What does your answer to this question reveal about how gender identity may be experienced?

Exam Content

Accurate documentation and record keeping are vital to the profession. Documenting that the research subject (client/patient) has read and understood both 1) informed consent to research participation (treatment), and 2) the legal ramifications of mandated instances in which treatment-related information must be released are ethically imperative. In the workplace, it is critical to apply due diligence by continually monitoring, reviewing, and investigating current practices performed, to confirm that they adhere to the APA code of ethics and standards of the profession.
Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper in which you examine the legal aspects of record keeping and provide expert testimony. As part of your examination, address the following items: 

Analyze the ethical issues related to documenting informed consent and ethical release of treatment and assessment records.

1. Which enforceable standards are relevant to the release of treatment-related materials and disclosure of information arising out of treatment? 

Provide specific examples of what each enforceable standard requires or prohibits. 

Provide a rationale for your proposed actions in your example and why they are consistent with ethical guidelines. 

Evaluate the legal issues associated with assessment, testing, and diagnosis documentation in professional psychology. 

What specific legal issues can arise in documenting assessment, testing, and diagnosis? 

Provide specific examples that support your evaluation.

Provide a rationale for your proposed actions in your example and why they are consistent with legal requirements. 

Getting Started

Socrates proclaimed that…

“The Unexamined Life is Not Worth Living”

. . . and while no one really rejoices at the prospect of self-examination, Socrates was on to something. The benefits of a little reflection on one’s past and present choices and actions can go a long way toward reinforcing the good traits and correcting those that are less than should be expected.

Authors who write books about leadership tell us that less than 3% of CEO’s actually have written their overall goals. Yet, those men and women have the highest paying jobs in the country! Do you not think they could perform more effectively if they had spent more time thinking about their destinations and the routes they were taking to reach them? Although you may not run a multi-million dollar business, you do make significant decisions that affect you and others. Do you have written goals for your life?

In this workshop, you will begin to develop your Personal Integrity Plan. You will begin by “taking stock” of things that have become your life priorities in the present. This can be a fascinating process. Students who have traveled this course before you sing the praises of this activity and its benefits.

As you get started, you will begin to understand Socrates’ endorsement of the “examined” life. 

Write a “research” paper dealing with some topical (current) aspect of the cultural geography of Minnesota or the British Isles not specifically covered in class (i.e. not Mall of America or Belfast murals). You will need to consult relevant sources including local newspapers, magazines, websites and connect the information found in those sources to theoretical approaches discussed in class and/or in the readings. You might write about an issue or topic concerning landscape, popular culture, class, gender, sexuality, homeplace, globalization, but you must write about it/them in the context of a specific local place. You may address topics with a broad regional scope but be sure through your analysis to justify how and why your topic is a state-wide one (perhaps related to regional/state tourism or cultural initiatives carried out at the state or local level by government). Don’t succumb to over-generalization.

Your paper must contain at least 5 relevant sources, at least 3 of which should be scholarly articles or books in cultural geography (scholarly articles refers to peer reviewed papers that appear in journals found on sites like Science Direct in the library’s article database; D2L readings and the textbook count, though note that the textbook only counts as one source, not each of the chapters). See syllabus for further guidelines.

Complete an essay reflecting upon the significance that the learning activities for this week have had on your personal, professional, intellectual, or spiritual growth. The content-related topic of these writings will be determined by the author, however the sincerity and quality of the content will be of the greatest importance. Give examples and find relations between what you’ve learned and current events and/or modern life, for example. Please compose your writing as a separate document and proofread it carefully before submitting it. Copying and pasting your prepared text into the appropriate text window is more efficient for the reader than accessing attached documents. You may edit your work after posting. The essay should be no less than 250 words.

learning activities for this week

21 The Modern World: 1800-1945

Neoclassicism and Romanticism
Realism
Manet and Impressionism
Post-Impressionism
Bridging the Atlantic: American in the 19th Century
Into the 20th Century: The Avant-Garde
World War I and After: Dada and Surrealism
Between the Wars: Building New Societies
THINKING ABOUT ART: Presenting the Past
ARTISTS: Henri Matisse
ARTISTS: Pablo Picasso

22 From Modern to Postmodern
The New York School
Into the Sixties: Assemblage and Happenings
Art of the Sixties and Seventies
Art since the Eighties: Postmodern World?
ARTISTS: Jackson Pollock
ARTISTS: Andy Warhol
ARTISTS: Alice Neel
THINKING ABOUT ART: The Guerrilla Girls

23 Opening Up to the World
THINKING ABOUT ART: Visual Culture