FO612SignatureAssignmentInstructions.pdf

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 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.