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CODE122: Research Team II
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Instructional Context CODE122 is the second of three semesters of Research Teams. In their second semester, students employ social science research methods, including surveys, interviews, and ethnographies, to understand how the problem they’re studying impacts local community stakeholders. This research supports the development of an implementation plan that addresses the problem in the local…
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Lab 2: Surveys
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Overview Working from the roadmap they developed in their research plan, group members now work together to develop a survey that will produce usable data for their research question. This assignment applies lessons of research ethics and effective survey design that they have already encountered in CODE123: Research & Systems Thinking over the preceding…
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Lab 1: Research Plan
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Overview In this collaborative lab assignment, students work in small groups to lay out a research plan for the semester. Based on their work from the previous semester, they develop a research question and identify key stakeholders, methods, and sources. Assignment Sheet
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Top 5
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Overview This reading check helps students engage actively and critically with scholarly sources, and to come to class prepared for discussion. Assignment Sheet
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Annotations
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Overview This reading check helps students engage actively and critically with scholarly sources, and to come to class prepared for discussion. Assignment Sheet
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CODE120: Research Team I
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Instructional Context CODE120 is the first of three semesters of Research Teams. In their first semester, students work with one another, their professor, and their community partner to understand the problem facing the community. CODES courses are based systems thinking, and in this course, students work to understand one or more systems that impact…
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Final Project: Scrollytelling Project and Presentation
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Overview In this culminating project, students work in groups to produce a robust systems analysis for their community partner. Their essay takes the shape of a scrollytelling project, a dynamic form of digital storytelling that incorporates images, data visualizations, video, and maps alongside text. At the end of the semester, they present their systems…
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Multimedia Essay 2: Local Systems Analysis
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Overview In this essay, students dive deeper into systems thinking. Their task in this assignment is to produce an analysis of a relevant local system that will inform their community partner’s work. This assignment is also a gentle introduction to group work; while each student writes their own essay, they work with group members…
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Multimedia Essay 1: Telling a Systems Story
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Overview This essay asks students to employ systems thinking at multiple levels, first assessing which systems are shaping the problem that their community partner is grappling with, and then exploring how they have been impacted by that system themselves. This process builds connection between students and their research, while also teaching them how their…
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Source Analysis
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Overview This reading check is an in-class assignment that helps students prepare for discussion, analyze readings, and synthesize information. Assignment Sheet