John David N. Dionisio, PhD

HNRS 2000

Research & Exhibition

Fall 2019

Note

This page is maintained as an archival record of the course shown above, and as such, some links on this page may no longer be valid nor accessible. They are kept here as a record of the resources that were available at the time of the course offering.

• Brightspace: Where you will submit work and check grades (Section 01, Section 02, Section 03)
• LMU Digital Commons Research & Exhibition collection: Where your final work will end up, for posterity

Here’s what’s on tap this semester, week by week. A version of this is on the syllabus but this one has live links and will be easier to reference during class. How to read/use this map:

• Week of: This is the Sunday of that week
• How to Prepare: What to read/watch/do, if any, before that week’s class
• What to Submit: What to turn in, if any, by Wednesday 11:59:59.999pm of that week (unless otherwise indicated)
  • indicates a Brightspace submission
  • indicates an email submission
  • Some assignments have both
• What We’ll Do: Activity/material/content during that week’s class

Week of August 25

• What We’ll Do: Introduction to the course; start looking for a mentor

Week of September 1

• How to Prepare: identify/contact potential mentors
• What to Submit: nothing to submit, but look for a mentor
• What We’ll Do: no class due to Labor Day—oh by the way, try to home in on a mentor

Week of September 8

• How to Prepare:
  • CoR 1–4
  • The Stranger Visions project
  • PostModern Jukebox
  • The experimental apparition of A.D. Cornell (related: classic inattention blindness video; a more recent take )
• What to Submit: “Reading party” video
• What We’ll Do: The research process

Week of September 15

• How to Prepare: CoR 5–6
• What to Submit: Mentor introduction
• What We’ll Do: How to Search
  • LibGuide: Advanced Google Searching
  • LibGuide: Visual Research

Week of September 22

• How to Prepare: Evaluating Sources
  • LibGuide: The RADAR Framework for Evaluating Information Sources
  • A potential proof of the Riemann hypothesis , one of the remaining Clay Mathematics Institute Millenium Problems
  • The “Sokal Squared” hoax
  • For background on the original incident, Wikipedia suffices: Sokal affair
• What We’ll Do:
  • Case study #1
  • Case study #2 (653K PDF)
  • Case study #3
  • Case study #4 (92K PDF)
  • Case study #5

Week of September 29

• What to Submit:
  • “Search party” video
  • Research journal entry for September
• What We’ll Do: Introduction to research-oriented annotated bibliographies
  • LibGuide: Annotated Bibliography: How to Create One
  • LibGuide: Citation Styles
  • LibGuide: Zotero
  • Annotated bibliography excerpt

Week of October 6

• How to Prepare: CoR 7–8
• What We’ll Do: Introduction to proposals—How to Write a Research Proposal

N.B. You have around one month from the first deliverable (“reading party” video) before the first truly big one is due (annotated bibliography). However, the next sizable deliverables (proposal draft, presentation draft) are then due two weeks apart after the annotated bibliography. After those, you will have around one month before the final proposal and presentation are due.

The upshot: the course work ramps up closer to the middle of the semester rather than the end. Plan your time accordingly. You will want to be primarily in “refinement mode” by the middle of November.

Week of October 13

• What to Submit: Annotated bibliography
• What We’ll Do: Proposals, continued—Revisiting the Stranger Visions project, PostModern Jukebox, and the experimental apparition of A.D. Cornell

Week of October 20

• What to Submit: (due Sunday 10/20 11:59:59.999pm)   Elevator story
• What We’ll Do: Initial discussion of topics—Elevator story breakout instructions

Week of October 27

• How to Prepare: Tufte
• What to Submit: Proposal draft
• What We’ll Do: Introduction to presentations—Creating Effective Presentations

Week of November 3

• What to Submit:
  • Research journal entry for October
  • Early-bird presentation rough drafts for workshopping (voluntary, to be submitted on Sunday 11/3 11:59:59.999pm)
• What We’ll Do: Presentation workshop

Week of November 10

• What to Submit: (due Sunday 11/10 11:59:59.999pm)   Presentation draft
• What We’ll Do: Presentation practice

Week of November 17

• What to Submit: Annotated bibliography addendum
• What We’ll Do: Presentation practice

Week of November 24

• What We’ll Do: Presentation practice

Week of December 1

• What to Submit: Research journal entry for November
• What We’ll Do: Presentation practice

Week of December 8

• What to Submit: (due Sunday 12/8 11:59:59.999pm)   Final proposal and presentation
• What We’ll Do: Proposal symposium
  • Section 01: Wednesday, December 11, 9am–11am
  • Section 02: Wednesday, December 11, 11am–1pm
  • Section 03: Tuesday, December 10, 4:30–6:30pm