Citizen Scholars

This is an opportunity to share a project from Al 110 that you found meaningful as part of your scholarly development. Please include a short reflection on how this project helped you to develop as a writer and thinker. The objective is to articulate your understanding of your growth through the development of this project.

This is an opportunity to share a project from Al 210 that you found meaningful as part of your scholarly development. Please include a short reflection on how this project helped you to develop as a writer and thinker, and as a citizen Scholar. The objective is to articulate your understanding of your growth through the development of this project.

Select a meaningful and successful project from one of your CS Option courses, and provide an overview of the key ideas and issues you addressed in the project. Assume that you are informing an audience with no special knowledge, making the stakes and objectives of the project explicit, interesting, and accessible to those beyond academia. It should contain a brief statement of the problem or issue covered in the project, a summary of your methods (research undertaken, main sources of information, techniques used if applicable), key points in the analysis, and main conclusions, or aims of the project. Even if the completed project is a visual piece (a painting, for example), or a creative piece (a poem, a play, a film), the kinds of information included in the overview remain primarily the same, adapted to reveal the issue, reasons methods/techniques, and outcomes. This overview may serve as the intermediary step between the project you completed for your course, and a presentation for the Citizen Scholars showcase. This is an informative written or audio overview, while the initial project itself may be in some other form, and a project created for a public venue such as the Citizen Scholars Annual Showcase will consist of a concise, catchy, accessible and perhaps multi-media presentation, or a piece of art, sample scene, or something of that sort, with an overview making the strategies, techniques, and purpose explicit.

Select a meaningful and successful project from two of your major courses, and provide an overview of the key ideas and issues you addressed in each project. Assume that you are informing an audience with no special knowledge, making the stakes and objectives of the project explicit, interesting, and accessible to those beyond academia. It should contain a brief statement of the problem or issue covered in the project, a summary of your methods (research undertaken, main sources of information, techniques used if applicable), key points in the analysis, and main conclusions, or aims of the project. Even if the completed project is a visual piece (a painting, for example), or a creative piece (a poem, a play, a film), the kinds of information included in the overview remain primarily the same, adapted to reveal the issue, reasons methods/techniques, and outcomes. This overview may serve as the intermediary step between the project you completed for your course, and a presentation for the Citizen Scholars showcase. This is an informative written or audio overview, while the initial project itself may be in some other form, and a project created for a public venue such as the Citizen Scholars Annual Showcase will consist of a concise, catchy, accessible and perhaps multi-media presentation, or a piece of art, sample scene, or something of that sort, with an overview making the strategies, techniques, and purpose explicit.

Having collaborated with CS cohort members to define, plan, and execute a group project of some kind, as described in the Research and Creative Activities Experiences, above, or done so on your own, please write a reflection that considers how effective the project was, how your group met the challenges posed by the collaboration, the planning, and the executions of the project, and what you might do differently if you were to pursue a similar project in the future.