Geog.450: Contributions and Collaboration
Individual & Group Projects
(http://faculty.washington.edu/krumme/450/concol.html)
Activities in this class consist both of your instructor's
lectures and of YOUR contributions. These "contributions", in turn, have both
individual and interactive, joint, collaborative components.
Two Topics or Specializations:
First, I assume that you have all kinds of reasons for taking this class
and all kinds of theoretical and practical interests and backgrounds which
you intend to relate to what we are doing. Thus I am asking you to select
and explore during this quarter
- a conceptual/ theoretical topic or specialization
(BLUE LIST)
; and
- as part of a group project, a "practical", "real world" area of
interest to which you would apply the theoretical insights developed
earlier(RED LIST)
Your theoretical specializations may have something to do with your past
or present
research for other classes or projects (senior thesis?), with your
professional plans or simply with something you always wanted to know more
about. Both topics need to be approved. You should take your clues from
the BLUE LIST and the RED (Group) LIST of topical areas. The theoretical
focus for the first project part should be selected early during the
second week. The work on this topic will last for the entire quarter and
will be part of both in-class examinations.
Collaboration:
You have an obligation to explore possibilities for
communication and collaboration with peers whenever project topics relate
to each other or overlap. In addition, I may suggest such relationships
and will expect that there are followed up.
While such collaboration opportunities will be more likely for the second
(red) part of the project, I foresee some possibilities already for the
first (blue) part. The specifics of how we
form groups and determine applied
group topics will have to be worked out. The idea (for part 2) would be
that group members bring different theoretical perspectives to a common
group project or a connected set of individual projects.
Please consider these "rules" outer-parameters. I do not want to
overregulate your projects at this time, but rather leave the
precise nature of what you are creating to further discussions and
negotiations.
Geography 450 Syllabus ||
Economic & Business Geography
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