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(Created page with " == Agenda == === Introductions (2 min per person) === Please share: * Preferred name(s) and pronouns. * Something meaningful/important to you or about you (not research and not obvious). === Very brief course introduction (~15 min) === * Learning goals * Structure * Assignments ** Weekly readings, writing/activities, discussion provocations ** Final project * A syllabus on a wiki? * A note about interdisciplinarity and this class * A note about reading (as a research...")
 
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=== Stretch break (quick!) ===
=== Stretch break #1 (quick!) ===


Get up! Move around!
Get up! Move around!
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* Think/Pair/Share (T/P/S): What purposes does a doctoral program serve? (consider Cottom interview, everything else you've encountered  up to today).
* Think/Pair/Share (T/P/S): What purposes does a doctoral program serve? (consider Cottom interview, everything else you've encountered  up to today).


 
=== Stretch break #2 (until guests arrive) ===
=== Stretch break (until guests arrive) ===
=== Guests ===
=== Guests ===
Claudio Benzecry and Nick Diakopoulos
Claudio Benzecry and Nick Diakopoulos

Revision as of 23:03, 19 September 2023

Agenda

Introductions (2 min per person)

Please share:

  • Preferred name(s) and pronouns.
  • Something meaningful/important to you or about you (not research and not obvious).

Very brief course introduction (~15 min)

  • Learning goals
  • Structure
  • Assignments
    • Weekly readings, writing/activities, discussion provocations
    • Final project
  • A syllabus on a wiki?
  • A note about interdisciplinarity and this class
  • A note about reading (as a researcher)

Stretch break #1 (quick!)

Get up! Move around!

Discussion (~30 min)

What is a doctoral program (or a university for that matter) for and what do I do with it?

  • Think/Pair/Share (T/P/S): What purposes does a doctoral program serve? (consider Cottom interview, everything else you've encountered up to today).

Stretch break #2 (until guests arrive)

Guests

Claudio Benzecry and Nick Diakopoulos