Syllabus |
| Jan 17-19 | Introduction to project generation |
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| Jan 23 | Introduction - semester projects, expectations, grading |
| Reading list |
| Perceptual blocks, stereotyping, memory |
| Class activity: perception and memory |
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| Jan 30 | First draft of project proposals due |
| Emotional blocks, cultural and environmental blocks |
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| Feb 6 | Final draft of project proposals due |
| Intellectual and expressive blocks, alternate thinking languages |
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| Feb 13 | Blockbusters |
| Class activity: Group action on selected semester projects |
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| Feb 20 | Groups |
| Class activity: Group action on selected semester projects |
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| Feb 27 | Creativity and the Brain |
| Rex Jung, The Mind Institute, Associate Professor of Translational Neuroscience |
| Arden et al. 2010 |
| Jung et al. 2010 |
| Student Summaries and Questions |
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| Mar 5 | Inside the cell |
| Ernster and Schatz 1981 |
| Kahms 2011 |
| Meldi and Brickner 2011 |
| Student Summaries and Questions |
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| Mar 12 | Spring Break |
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| Mar 19 | Teaching Genetics - GENA |
| Lynne Bemis and Linda B, Native American Cancer Research |
| Student Summaries and Questions |
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| Mar 26 | Our eyes, photographs, and innovation |
| Miguel Gandert |
| Distinguished Professor and Director of Institute of Film and Digital Media Communications and Journalism, UNM |
| The Mind's Eye, Cartier-Bresson 1994 |
| Dancing with a Camera, Chris Wilson |
| Student Summaries and Questions |
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| Apr 2 | Nanotechnology |
| Gabriel A. Montano, Ph.D. |
| Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, Albuquerque, NM |
| Goertz et al. 2011 |
| Goertz et al. 2011 |
| Goertz et al. 2012 |
| Gupta et al. 2009 |
| Xiao et al. 2011 |
| Student Summaries and Questions |
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| Apr 9 | Google |
| David Pablo Cohn |
| Pretotyping by Alberto Savoia |
| Student Summaries and Questions |
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| Apr 16 | Crafting a presentation |
| Presentation Zen by Garr Reynolds |
| Class activity: Elevator pitch by instructor(s) |
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| Apr 23 | Project Presentations round 1 (elevator pitch, 60 seconds) |
| Class activity: 5 X 5 pitch by instructor(s) |
| Please see the elevator pitch videos. |
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| Apr 30 | Project Presentations round 2 (5 X 5 pitch, five slides five minutes) |
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| May 7 | Final Project Submissions Due |
| Please see guidelines on Project Submission. |
