What is the assignment?

This blog is the result of students' work in the Human Socialization undergraduate classes at Kennesaw State University, in metropolitan Atlanta, GA.  The assignment description below explains how the students worked to understand how the physical environment affects our social behavior, especially as it relates to a topic often overlooked and considered taboo, dating people with disabilities and the intersections of public space and private behavior.   

Additionally, in October of 2013, I took several students to visit East Lake Commons, a co-housing community in Decatur, GA, that is designed using visit-ability principles.  Students wrote about this experience as well.  For more information, click the links on East Lake Commons and visit-ability in the sentence above.

The Assignment:
Students will venture out and plan an imaginary or real date with a person with a disability. Your date must include the following: a meal, some kind of entertainment, and plans for some privacy. Have fun and be creative!  
You will write a 500-600 word/two page reflection essay of your date in which you select eight of the eleven key concepts for understanding physical environment-behavior relationships in Exhibit 7.1 on page 214 of your Hutchison text and analyze the environments chosen for the date in light of these concepts.
 

These essays will be posted on a blog website, so please include multimedia to show other students and the instructor how the environments you observe on your date apply or do not apply to these key concepts. Multimedia can include digital or cell phone photos, video, screenshots of webpages, sound recordings, brochures, or maps. 
 

This assignment is inspired by a similar assignment found at http://disabilitysexuality.blogspot.com/. 

Textbook:

Hutchison, Elizabeth D.  (2011).  Dimensions of human behavior: Person and environment (4^th ed.).  Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.