*Includes 4 discussion boards
The student will complete 4 Discussions in this course. For each thread, students must support their assertions with at least 2 scholarly citations in APA format. Each reply must incorporate at least 2 scholarly citation(s) in APA format. Any sources cited must have been published within the last five years. Acceptable sources include the textbook, scholarly journals, online articles from academic institutions or organization and the Bible. Responding to a classmate’s post requires both the addition of new ideas and analysis. A particular point made by the classmate must be addressed and built upon by the student’s analysis in order to move the conversation forward. Thus, the response post is a rigorous assignment that requires the student to build upon threads to develop deeper and more thorough discussion of the ideas introduced in the threads. As such, reply posts that merely affirm, restate, or unprofessionally quarrel with the previous post(s) and fail to make a valuable, substantive contribution to the discussion will receive appropriate point deductions.