Project
Purposes
- Demonstrate competence to communicate benefits of valuescience
- Disseminate valuescience
Critieria
- Deliver proposal, draft(s), and final project on or before due dates
- Embody key elements of valuescience argument: define science, value, valuescience; why value important; why sound means to discern value important; why valuescience is such
- Apply valuescience to specific issue(s) using example(s) drawn from project author's(s') lives
- Describe how project author(s) benefitted by practicing valuescience: changes in ideas; changes in action
- Tailor to audience: describe key characteristics (e.g., size, age, relation to project creators, education, socioeconomic status, etc.) as appropriate; describe choice of medium and format in general terms (e.g., 3-minute video dramatization; 5-minute poster presentation; three-fold brochure)
- Elicit evidence of learning by audience: understanding (evidence); action (evidence)
- Reusable by authors or others (state how)
Grading
- Evidence of effort to satisfy each project criterium.
- Quality of output as vehicle for communication: engages audience; clear, understandable to target audience; persuasive case for valuescience practice
- Amount of impact: quality of change (i.e., big or small, deep or shallow, broad or narrow); quantity of change (number of people, to date, potential)
You can earn full credit for a final project by: (1) evidencing effort commensurate with SU guidelines for academic credit (Project is 25% of three units; 20% of four units; each unit nominally entails 20 hours of preparation outside class. We ask that you devote 12-16 hours of work spread over four weeks, five if you work during Thanksgiving recess; (2) creating a project that meets quality criteria enumerated above; and (3) elicits some change you report or document, or has credible potential for eliciting change in others.
A project is opportunity to share valuescience with an audience you think will appreciate and benefit from it. We publish projects with attribution on an open course website.
Purposes
- Demonstrate competence to communicate benefits of valuescience.
- Disseminate valuescience.
Critieria
- Deliver proposal, draft(s), and final project on or before due dates.
- Embody key elements of valuescience argument: define science, value, valuescience; why value important; why sound means to discern value important; why valuescience is such.
- Apply valuescience to specific issue(s) using example(s) drawn from project author's or authors' lives.
- Describe how project author(s) or others likely to be viewed as "social proof" by target audience benefitted by practicing valuescience: changes in ideas; changes in action.
- Tailor to audience: in clear, engaging, persuasive way describe key characteristics (e.g., size, age, relation to project creators, education, socioeconomic status, etc.) as appropriate; describe choice of medium and format in general terms (e.g., 3-minute video dramatization; 5-minute poster presentation; three-fold brochure).
- Elicit evidence of learning by audience: understanding (evidence); action (evidence).
- Create media reusable by authors or others (state how).
Grading
- A project comprises 33% of your course grade (25% if you're enrolled in lab). We grade your project on the following, weighted as indicated:
- Evidence of effort commensurate with SU guidelines for academic credit (Project is 25% of three units; 20% of four units; each unit nominally entails 20 hours of preparation outside class. This amounts to 15-16 hours of work which is spread over approximately the last five weeks of the quarter. (20%)
- Degree to which you meet standards enumerated above at "Criteria." (80%)
Sample Video Sample Brochure
