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SDG 17 – Partnerships for the Goals

  • Final Project

    Each student is expected to research, present, and write-up a final project. The presentations will be about 15 minutes long and take place during the last three class sessions. The final project write-up should be about 15 pages long (other formats possible for non-standard projects—see instructor for permission).

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  • Term Project

    Household to global scale term projects on water, climate change and health solutions will be developed in teams or individually. You and your team decide on the format—a model, a video, a website, an app, a proposal, an artistic expression, a research paper, a competition entry. This can take any form. 

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  • Dream Project/Term Project Proposal

    The proposal describes your dream project. The proposal is your opportunity to detail the scope of your project, its context, what you need to make this happen, your timeline and milestones, who are your teammates if you have teammates, or if you are planning to proceed individually.

    In the first deliverable, it does not need to be a fully formed proposal but a rough first draft. There’s no specific page requirement, but 4 to 8 pages of text total, or perhaps 10+ PowerPoint slides might be a good length.

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  • Dream Project Exercise

    Take an index card, and prepare a short summary.

    Step 1 (on side 1 of the index card): Describe your dream project (drawing from any combo of disciplines, any scale, however far-fetched or down-to-earth).

    • Dream project name/title
    • Dream project summary (50 words maximum)
    • What else do you need to make this dream a reality?

    If you don’t have a dream project yet, describe a sector or geographical area in which you would like to be focused.

    Step 2 (on side 2 of the index card): Get yourself recruited into a Dream Team! What are your special gifts?

    • Reason a team should want to recruit you—ie., your special skills and capabilities (50 words maximum)
    • Types of project sought
    • Does your dream project fit in the Drawdown and/or 2020 framework?
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  • Drawdown

    Browse the Drawdown solutions and pick one that interests you. Come prepared to class to present that solution, either informally (sitting at your seat and just talking) or formally (preparing some slides for class presentation, and/or some related material you have dug up on that solution). Your presentation might take 5 minutes or so.

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  • Tutorials

    The tutorial is an opportunity to pick a topic of your choice from the universe of topics pertaining to the subjects of water, climate change, and health and share that with the class. The tutorial will be undertaken either with one teammate, or individually. It can be done in any format of your choice, with creative, non-traditional pedagogies (eg. demos, games, workshops, other activities) most welcome. 

    There will be roughly one tutorial per week.

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  • Final Presentations (Ethics in your Life)

    During the last two classes of the term, each student will give a 5–7 minute presentation on their own ethical perspective, as developed over the course of the term.

    The presentation should begin with a clear statement of your question or topic and its ethical significance, and then explain how your thinking on the topic has progressed over the semester.

    We are looking for you not to just state your opinion on a question, but to think about it in some depth and show us how your line of thought has changed over the course of your investigation. If you've changed your mind on the question, great; but if you haven't changed your mind, that's fine too. If you don't have a settled opinion and are still unsure what to think, even better! We just want to hear how you've engaged with alternative points of view on the question and what you've learned from doing so.

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  • Reflection Papers (Ethics in your Life)

    Students are required to submit three short (roughly 250–300 word) reflection papers over the course of the term in response to the outside events* you attend.

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