Project Proposal

Diversity & Discrimination

Project Proposal:

Write a statement on what your project is on (read BASELINE 2). This is a brain dump, a cognitive learning exercise designed to force you to articulate on paper an idea in your head, so it should not be that difficult ... be aware that some great ideas in your head look awfully irrelevant when you finally write them down].

i. State what YOUR project problem is.

ii. THEN put EVERYTHING you currently KNOW about the problem (off the top of your head) and explain why you think your project is important (if you are building OFF of baseline 2 , this part has been done).

iii. Address the different levels of importance: how is it important to you personally & you know about the problem (have you experienced or witnessed the problem in real life)? How do you think knowing more will help you in the future?)? How is it important for the rest of us (what will this understanding mean for society) – or, more simply, why should we care?

iv. Now expand ONE dimension of the problem - FIND ONE piece of formal evidence for your interest. Formal means that you have some kind of artifact (something that others can look at) that illustrates the problem.

v. Now SPECULATE – what do you think is happening? Essentially, hypothesize what your findings will be

vi. Given what you just wrote, what else do you think you will find out?

Length: minmum of 3 pages. 5 pages is the maximum.

Due Date: Sunday, September 24, 9:00 PM. Los Angeles Time Zone.