experience ways of integrating various bodies of knowledge from across disciplines through working cooperatively with team members with diverse knowledge bases.
experience team-based, cooperative learning to produce results with a real-world impact.
The student will demonstrate his or her progress toward these objectives through written assignments, verbal reports, project design and project completion.
Working in a team setting, students enrolled in HUM 301 will:
Identify a problem for the focus of the group project.
Demonstrate awareness of diverging ways of reasoning on approaches to problem and solution identification.
Demonstrate problem solving skills in a team environment, including:
·Discussing potential solutions to the problem and choosing a solution.
·Organizing and managing individual work and the work of others to implement the solution.
·Designing a group project, demonstrating facility with team-based learning using agile principles.
Complete a comprehensive project plan using an appropriate project management software program.
Use effective communication skills to report on and reflect upon the results of the project in a public forum.
For the pilot classes, the required texts will be determined by the instructors on the teaching team in consultation with the QEP Steering Committee; some possible required texts are: Osterwalder and Pigneur, Business Model Generation; Carl G. Herndl, editor, Sustainability: A Reader for Writers; subscription to project management software (e.g. Live Plan); After the pilot, a list of texts required for all sections will be a part of the standard syllabus for the class that will be generated by the teaching team prior to the beginning of the semester in which the class is offered.
All sections will be expected to make regular use of Blackboard for class assignments
Course policies will be determined by the teaching team.
The group project will be group-graded by the teaching team using the appropriate VALUE rubrics from the Association of American Colleges and Universities. The standard KSU grading scale (A,B,C,D,F,I) will be used to record final grades.
For the pilot classes, the schedule will be determined by the teaching team in consultation with the QEP Steering Committee. After the pilot classes, the schedule will be determined by the instructors on the teaching team, each of whom will teach a segment of the class. Readings, viewings and discussions will focus on the principles of agile thinking. The primary focus of the course calendar will be on students working in groups to design and implement a group project that has a real-world impact on a community (University, local, or even further-reaching).