This badge was earned for work in the following course:

Title: Your Inner Chimpanzee

Code: ANTH 12.4

Distributions: SCI

Term: Winter 2015

Instructor: Dr. Kes Schroer

Brief course description: Your Inner Chimpanzee explores the boundary between human behaviors and the behaviors of our closest relatives, chimpanzees and bonobos.

Brief badge description: Students worked with the instructor to construct individual final projects, following a 12-step project development process. Final projects took many forms, including Instagram essays, high school outreach activities, mock grants, and short documentaries.

Sample projects:

Badge criteria: To receive this badge, students had to receive 100% completion on the following steps of project development.

Prep 1: Why am I taking this course?

Students were asked to critically examine their personal investments in Your Inner Chimpanzee and list their academic and personal goals for the term.

Prep 2: What’s my learning style?

Students used pedagogical tools to determine their preferred modes of learning new material and consider new ways of expressing their ideas.

Prep 3: Showcased projects

Students examined previous course projects to refine their ideas for their own projects.

Prep 4: Where to find resources

Students determined the time, financial, and academic requirements for their projects and defined where they would find the necessary resources on campus.

Prep 5: Mindmapping

Students constructed and shared mind maps (brainstorms) of their projects, highlighting major themes and outcomes.

Prep 6: Annotated bibliography/resource list

Students continued to identify their available resources and determined how these resources would fit together to form the final project. Students also met with the instructor to identify additional resources.

Prep 7: Pitch

Students wrote pitches for their projects, focusing on three or four sentences that encapsulated the main goals of their project.

Prep 8: Peer review

Students reviewed pitches from other students and offered comments to improve structure, execution, and content. Students also reflected on the peer reviews received for their own pitches.

Prep 9: Personal assessment criteria

Students were asked to define their success criteria for the project.  When would they know their projects were complete, and how would they know if their projects were C, B, or A level projects?

Prep 10: Action plans

Students were asked to outline the steps of their project and due dates for each step.

Prep 11: Execution

Students crafted their final projects and met with the instructor to review first and second drafts of their work. At the end of this prep, students submitted their projects for the instructor’s evaluation. Successful projects received high marks in content, formatting, research, and streamlining the narrative.  Students also had the chance to evaluate their projects based on their personal criteria outlined in Prep 9.

Prep 12: Reflection

Students responded to their experience building their own final projects and offered recommendations for their personal growth and course content.