Time Schedule:
David G Socha
B CUSP 131
Bothell Campus
Various topics designed to respond to curricular interests and needs for first-year students. Offered: AWSp.
Class description
CULTURE HACKING: This is 3-week (August 20-September 7) seminar/workshop explores our learning and team cultures. It will be highly experiential, practicing techniques that are known to help create and maintain great teams. It will be project-based, as you explore and co-create wild and creative ideas about how our learning and team cultures could be dramatically better for students, employers and society. We will have a dedicated room, so we have a creative collaborative space where we can post materials on the walls, leave work in progress on the tables, etc. We will have both a lower level course (CUSP 131) and an upper-level course (CSS 390) that meet at the same time in the same room, in order to get a greater diversity of perspectives.
Our goal is that by the end of the course you will know how to hack team culture, and have generated a set of experiments to try at UW Bothell.
Student learning goals
to understand how to hack a team culture
to understand the "idealized design" process
to understand how different our system of education and learning could be
to understand the connection among individuals, great teams and great products
General method of instruction
The course will include practicing techniques, readings, invited speakers, some lecture, and co-creating products.
In order to accommodate the experiential components of this class, we will be meeting during the following times: - 10 AM - 6 PM on August 20-21, and September 7 - 1-5 PM, M-F from August 22-September 6
Recommended preparation
A keen interest in how to be effective in or change organizational culture and learning culture.
Class assignments and grading
Reflective writings, activities, readings and design projects.
Grades will be based on participation, short assignments, and a final project and presentation.
