Team Project Guidelines

	Team 1	Team 2	Team 3	Team 4	Team 5
	Timmy Chau	Michael Forte	Donny Reagan	David McNamara	Stephen Socozza
	Eileen Patch	Christin Martin	Aaron Davis	Dina Lelic	Christian Bergstrom
	Tina Parshley	Lyle Jantzi	Shawn LaPolla	Jason Hodge	Daniel DeSantis
	Zhi Li	Jit Ascamonkol	Peter Fuller	Jon Baumler	Eva-Lina Sandin
					Stephen Socozza
Presentation of Fact Sheet	Wk 4 Tuesday	Wk 4 Thursday	Wk 4 Thursday	Wk 4 Thursday	Wk 4 Tuesday

Research Topics

Phase I

A) Define Positions of Team Members: List of Team Members Due Week 2

• Your group will need to decide on

· a Team Manager who organizes group meetings, keeps records, phone numbers, and e-mail addresses of all group members, keeps record of attendance of group meetings, disseminates information to the group and within the group, and functions as a liaison between instructor and the group. Team manager to provide instructor with progress report by Week 5

· Current Events Manager: someone to keep up with daily news about the city your team is researching. A weekly almanac, summarizing the major news in, about, or affecting the city, collected from newspapers, mainstream and non-mainstream when possible, will have to be produced and made available to the group as a whole and to instructor. (For New York Team, consider subscription of NY Times)

· Website Manager, who creates and maintains the website, as a means to communicate with group members and to present the final research project

· Research Managers who locate critical sources, order books and articles from interlibrary loans, etc.

· But: ALL team members are REQUIRED to do research; research manager are in charge that critical material circulates and is read

• Your group will also need to
• set-up weekly meeting times, team manager keeps attendance sheet
• to make an appointment with the Reference Librarian Gayle Berry (mailto:gayle.berry@clarkson.edu, ext. 6738) for a training session of how to do effective research, no later than Week 4. All team members are required to attend.

B) Assignment: Explore Your City City Fact Sheet Presentations during Week 3 (5% of Course Grade)

Phase II

Research Abstract: Due Week 7 (5% of Course Grade)

• 500 word summary

Phase III

Research Proposal: Due Week 9 (5% of Course Grade)

• Research Proposal (5 pages): explains your area of research and poses further questions, provides basic background information, provides info on how research is to be conducted.
• It should contain the following sections:
• statement of the problem (100-150 words)
• its relevance to social justice: how does this subject affect various groups of people?(1/2page)
• scope of problem: how many people are affected, how widespread is the problem, what areas, institutions, etc. are affected (1/2page)
• At which level will research be pitched, what is the level of analysis
• f.ex. L.A. river: at the community level, at political level,
• background: history, political, ecological, social, racial, etc.: outlines (1.5-2pages)
• planned methods for further research (1/2 page): for example: archival research, newspaper search, videotape reviews of city council meetings????
• preliminary bibliography of (1 page)
• works already consulted
• works to be consulted
• current events Almanac
• Team Schedules Meeting with Instructor

Phase IV

Final Paper: Due Finals Week (25% of Course Grade)

• Presentation: due Wk 15
• all final papers should be posted on the web. Presentations can be web based and/or power point presentations, or poster sessions
• Final Draft of Paper, due 12/08 (the equivalent of ~25pgs, ~5pgs per team member plus bibliography and charts/maps/tables).

Elements your team paper should contain:

• Explanation of the Problem (Relationship to Social Justice: Which groups of people are involved, to what extent,what are the various positions represented, what basic philosophy of social justice do you advocate?)
• Scope of problem:
• Background:
• History
• political,
• ecological,
• social, racial, etc.
• relation to contemporary issues?...
• Recommendations or Conclusions of Research
• Bibliography

On Grading the Team Project:

You will be asked to provide a rough draft of your team paper on week 13. I will return the papers with comments the next week, leaving you some time for incorporating the comments into your presentation. I will grade the final paper based ¾ on content and ¼ on structure of the white paper. To detect ‘free-riders’, I will ask each of you, individually, to provide an assessment of the relative efforts of all group members. For example, in a group of 5, if in your judgment everyone contributed equally, than each would be credited with 20% effort. If one person did the lion's share, you might credit that person with 80% and the other four with 5% effort each. We will use the median score of all of the group members’ rankings to assign grades. Your grade on the white paper will be the overall (group grade), weighted by your participation as judged by members of your work group. Thus someone who works less than other group members will be penalized, someone who works relatively more will be rewarded (These procedures have been developed by Professor Tom Langen and proven very effective for Team Projects. Thanks Tom!)

Course Objective	Course Materials	Bibliography
Syllabus	Schedule of Assignments	Additional Resources
Study Guide I	Study Guide II	Team Project Guidelines