Full Course Calendar (Spring 2020)

The open-ended structure of this class leaves you a lot of room for exploration, but it also might make it difficult to know where you’re meant to be spending your time each week. The purpose of this calendar is twofold: one, to give you a single canonical listing of everything you need to do in the class, and two, to give you an idea where we expect your time to be spent each week. If you find yourself unsure where to spend your time, check here!

Numbers in parentheses are our estimates for how much time you should spend on each task. Note that these can be hard to estimate as some tasks (e.g. “Investigate the literature and gather sources”) overlap significantly with others (“Complete Assignment 1”, where half of assignment 1 is to write about what you gathered).

Week TasksDeliverablesDeadline
1
  • Start-of-Course Survey
01/12/2019
2
  • Continue to investigate the literature and gather sources (6)
  • Complete Assignment 1 (2)
  • Earn participation credit (extra peer reviews, Piazza posts, project participation) (2)
01/19/2019
301/26/2019
402/02/2019
5
  • Complete the Quarter-Course Survey (<0.5)
  • Continue to investigate the literature and gather sources (5)
  • Revisit and begin synthesizing prior assignments (2)
  • Complete four peer reviews on Assignment 3 (1)
  • Earn participation credit (extra peer reviews, Piazza posts, project participation) (2)
02/09/2019
602/16/2019
702/23/2019
803/01/2019
9
  • Complete the Mid-Course Survey (<0.5)
  • Continue working on your project as scheduled (9)
  • Earn participation credit (extra peer reviews, Piazza posts, project participation) (1)
  • Complete weekly status check (<0.5)
  • Mid-Course Survey
03/08/2019
1003/15/2019
1103/22/2019
12
03/29/2019
1304/05/2019
1404/12/2019
15
04/19/2019
1604/26/2019
17
  • Complete four peer reviews on the final project presentations (2.5)
  • Earn participation credit (extra peer reviews, Piazza posts) (4)
  • Complete the end-of-course survey (0.5)
  • Complete the CIOS survey (0.5)
  • Browse and discuss other students’ projects (2.5)
05/03/2019