Assignments
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1. Participation
Attend and participate in all meetings of the course.
If you will miss or have missed up to two classes: Make-up Assignments
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Weekly
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2. Student Presentations
You will be assigned to one of the course topics, for which you should find a current event, which can be a scientific or lay story/article/blog posting/video clip/novel/book from no earlier than 9 months before the start of the course.
You should use the current event as a way to clarify or problematize key issues for your topic, and to engage the class in discussion. In preparation, use the information found at www.research-ethics.net plus other sites or resources to help contextualize the current event. However your presentation is not meant to be simply a lecture that repeats the information found at those sites. Since everyone is expected to read the assigned modules on research-ethics.net, everyone starts with the same basic information; therefore, the focus should be on something compelling, essential, or problematic about the topic, as suggested by or evidenced in the current event.
Presentations, including discussion time, should be designed for about 25 minutes. Be creative in finding ways to encourage discussion and interaction, and plan to incorporate one or more of the approaches listed at Discussion Tools or create your own approach.
For some topics, more than one student may be assigned, so you will be expected to communicate with one another to minimize the risk of duplication of current events, approaches, and/or content.
The course instructor is also available to meet or assist by email with additional resources if necessary. To ensure adequate time for preparation of all presentations, you should forward your plans by e-mail to the course instructor no later than 72 hours before your presentation is scheduled.
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3. Survival Skills Presentations
Students not assigned to a current events presentation will select from a list of possible survival skills topics, and will be assigned to a group with one or more other participants in this year’s course. Each group will be responsible for collaborating to frame how to approach the selected topic, locating and reviewing relevant resources, constructing a presentation, and presenting the topic during one of the selected times noted in the course syllabus.
Presentations, including class discussion time, should be designed for about 30 minutes.
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4. Final Paper
In lieu of a final class session, each survival skills group will prepare a written report about their skills topic. Those who made current events presentations will also provide a report of their presentation: you will include a copy of the current event, if appropriate/available, or the source of the event, and why you chose that event to present on the topic. These reports need be no longer than three pages, and are due by e-mail to the instructor on March 13th.
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