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general issues
In general, for every class meeting, there will be a reading assignment and a design or analysis exercise. Assignments are to be completed in collaboration with two or three other students (see below for a description of working groups). The readings are intended to give you ideas on how to conceptualize and approach the design and analysis exercises. This course is a studio course which means that every meeting we will spend an appreciable amount of time looking at and discussing student work. After completing each assignment you will be expected to upload your work to the course website before the next meeting time. During each meeting we will discuss the work that you have uploaded to the website. Final project reviews will take a similar form. As a student you will be asked to show your work, be given the chance to describe what you have done, and then will receive feedback from fellow students, the professor and possibly several invited guests.
working groups
For most of the assignments in this course you will be working in groups of 3 or 4. For assignment two, groups will be assigned. Thereafter you can choose your own group pending approval of the professor.
You will be asked to evaluate (after each assignment is completed) the work of each of your group members. Your assessment of your group members will influence the grade they receive on the assignment and vice versa. After each assignment you will send an email to the professor in which you evaluate your group members. The email you will send should be very simple. It will contain the name of each member of the work group (excluding yourself) and a number between 1 and 10 after each name. A score of 10 means that you were greatly pleased by the work done and/or the effort invested by the group member. A score of 1 means that you were very upset about the work done or the effort shown by the group member. Scores between 1 and 10 indicate you are somewhere between enthusiastic and displeased in your evaluation of your colleague. Each group member's final score for the assignment will be proportional to the score assignment by the professor for the group's work as a whole multipled by the mean of the scores of the group member received from his or her colleagues in the group. Although this is a means for you to help the professor give credit where credit is due, keep in mind that it's better to tell your colleague that you think they are doing a great job (or a poor job) and why while you are working together rather than waiting until after the assignment is completed to register your opinion of their work.
policy
Attendance is manditory. Three or more absences will result in a grade of no pass.
All assignments must be completed on time. Late submission of completed assignments will receive no credit. We will discuss student work on the assignments at each class meeting. To be fair to those who have submitted their work on time, it will not be possible to give credit for work that is late.
grading
- assignments: 70%; thus, each assignment is worth more than 4% of your
grade since there are 16 assignments over the course of the quarter. Note also (as explained above in the section on "work groups") that your assignment grades will depend both on how the professor evaluates the work and on howyour group's members evaluate you and your work on the assignment.
- final project: 30%
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