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Purposes

1. Demonstrate competence to communicate benefits of valuescience
2. Disseminate valuescience

Critieria

1. Deliver proposal, draft(s), and final project on or before due dates
2. Embody key elements of valuescience argument: define science, value, valuescience; why value important; why sound means to discern value important; why valuescience is such
3. Apply valuescience to specific issue(s) using example(s) drawn from project author's(s') lives
4. Describe how project author(s) benefitted by practicing valuescience: changes in ideas; changes in action
5. Tailor to audience: describe key characteristics (e.g., size, age, relation to project creators, education, socioeconomic status, etc.) as appropriate; describe choice of medium and format in general terms (e.g., 3-minute video dramatization; 5-minute poster presentation; three-fold brochure)
6. Elicit evidence of learning by audience: understanding (evidence); action (evidence)
7. Reusable by authors or others (state how)

Grading

1. Evidence of effort to satisfy each project criterium.
2. Quality of output as vehicle for communication: engages audience; clear, understandable to target audience; persuasive case for valuescience practice
3. Amount of impact: quality of change (i.e., big or small, deep or shallow, broad or narrow); quantity of change (number of people, to date, potential)

You can earn full credit for a final project by: (1) evidencing effort commensurate with SU guidelines for academic credit (Project is 25% of three units; 20% of four units; each unit nominally entails 20 hours of preparation outside class. We ask that you devote 12-16 hours of work spread over four weeks, five if you work during Thanksgiving recess; (2) creating a project that meets quality criteria enumerated above; and (3) elicits some change you report or document, or has credible potential for eliciting change in others.

A project is opportunity to share valuescience with an audience you think will appreciate and benefit from it. We publish projects with attribution on an open course website.

Purposes

• Demonstrate competence to communicate benefits of valuescience.
• Disseminate valuescience.

Critieria

• Deliver proposal, draft(s), and final project on or before due dates.
• Embody key elements of valuescience argument: define science, value, valuescience; why value important; why sound means to discern value important; why valuescience is such.
• Apply valuescience to specific issue(s) using example(s) drawn from project author's or authors' lives.
• Describe how project author(s) or others likely to be viewed as "social proof" by target audience benefitted by practicing valuescience: changes in ideas; changes in action.
• Tailor to audience: in clear, engaging, persuasive way describe key characteristics (e.g., size, age, relation to project creators, education, socioeconomic status, etc.) as appropriate; describe choice of medium and format in general terms (e.g., 3-minute video dramatization; 5-minute poster presentation; three-fold brochure).
• Elicit evidence of learning by audience: understanding (evidence); action (evidence).
• Create media reusable by authors or others (state how).

Grading

• A project comprises 33% of your course grade (25% if you're enrolled in lab). We grade your project on the following, weighted as indicated:
• Evidence of effort commensurate with SU guidelines for academic credit (Project is 25% of three units; 20% of four units; each unit nominally entails 20 hours of preparation outside class. This amounts to 15-16 hours of work which is spread over approximately the last five weeks of the quarter. (20%)
• Degree to which you meet standards enumerated above at "Criteria." (80%)

Sample Video Sample Brochure