IS 392 Course Schedule: Spring Semester 2020
Hospitality, Community, and Constructing Social Experience
Week 1: February 6th & 7th
- Advisory Meeting – 2:30pm
Week 2: February 10th – 14th
Traveling to Concordia Moorhead February 12th for basketball game – limited access
- Review and continuation of St. Olaf student demographics compilation
- Research on successful survey taking and format
- Submit abstract(s)
- Add abstracts to Web Portfolio/Web Portfolio work
- Advisory Meeting – Friday
Week 3: February 17th – 21stĀ
- Obtain and analyze 2+ articles on successful campus cultures (both scholarly and anecdotal sources)
- Submit abstracts
- Add abstracts to Web Portfolio
- Draft survey format ideas
- Contact head of tabling to discuss possible times for survey taking
- Advisory Meeting – Friday
Week 4: February 24th – 28th (Tentative Outline)
** Surgery February 25th – Away from campus until the afternoon of March 2nd
- Obtain 3 + articles regarding positive spacial configurations and specific features that attribute to the space
- Submit abstracts
- Add abstracts to Web Portfolio
- Potentially, personally, assess spaces on campus that I find to have successful features and spaces that lack them
- No Advisory Meeting
Week 5: March 2nd – 6th
- Finalize 1st round survey
- Schedule time to table in Buntrock Commons
- Optimally, table sessions and collect student-reported data
- Submit first section of research document
- Advisory Meeting – Friday
Week 6: March 9th – 13th
- Get permissions to come to classes and distribute survey to at least 2 classes in each department (will not participate if they had taken survey at tabling)
- Email/meet with department heads for access
- Distribute surveys
- Compile data into spread sheets
- Look for trends
- Reassess research to find areas where other articles will be helpful based upon survey trends (or lack there of)
- Submit abstract
- Add abstract to Web Portfolio
- Advisory Meeting – Friday
Week 7: March 16th – 20th
- Draft survey ideas – round 2 based upon prior findings
- Submit next section of research document – survey findings and further research
- Get tabling times and schedule session
- Finalize survey for round 2 tabling
- Advisory Meeting – Friday
Spring Break: March 21st – March 29th
Week 8: March 30th – April 3rd
- Round 2 of tabling in Buntrock Commons
- Round 2 of surveying classrooms
- Compile survey data
- Submit documentation
- Add survey data to Web Portfolio
- Make edits to research document
- Advisory Meeting – Friday
Week 9: April 6th – 10th
- Finalize Research document
- Submit
- Add research document to Web Portfolio
- Web Portfolio work
- Begin Design Boards – ideas and sketching
- Reserve Viking Theater for presentation
- Advisory Meeting – Friday
Week 10: April 13th – 17th
- Work on and Finalize Design Boards
- Submit
- Add Design Boards to Web Portfolio
- Prepare and practice for presentation – Viking Theater
- Make note cards
- Advisory Meeting – TBA
Week 11: April 20th – 24th
Presentation on April 20th in Viking TheaterĀ
- Web Portfolio updating
- Make edits to research document
- Submit
- Begin planning poster
- Advisory Meeting – Friday
Week 12: April 27th – May 1st
Posters to be presented in Buntrock Commons May 1st – Honors Day
- Finalize poster for viewing
- Advisory Meeting – TBA