WEEK	DATE	TOPIC (preparatory reading)	DUE
1	8-28	Course introduction; meet Project Partners	STP-pref
2	9-2     9-4	Moral exemplars and PPs (C&D, ch 1-2 – Mysteries of Moral Commitment, Identifying Moral Exemplars…)  course notebooks; project definitions Team meetings & work period: develop team evaluation scheme
3	9-9   9-11	Team skills: listening, meeting organization, communications, conflict Team meetings & work period	STP-1
4	9-16 9-18	Project management: strategies, tools, next steps Team meetings & work period	STP-2
5	9-23   9-25	Leadership, guest speaker Jeff Moss (C&D, ch 3 – Suzie Valadez) Team meetings & work period	CN
6	9-30   10-2	Learning from your Project Partners; creating slides (C&D, ch 5 – Virginia Durr) Team meetings & work period
7	10-7   10-9	Learning from your Project Partners (C&D, ch 6 – Jack Coleman) STP progress reports to classmates, PAs, and PPs	STP-3
8	10-14   10-16	Learning from your Project Partners (C&D, ch 8 – Charleszetta Waddles) Feedback from progress reports
9	10-21   10-23	Learning from your Project Partners (C&D, ch 9 – Cabell Brand) Team meetings & work period	CN
10	10-28   10-30	Learning from your Project Partners (C&D, ch 4 – Courage and Certainty Amid Risk) Team meetings & work period
11	11-4   11-6	Moral exemplars and valuing your Partner (C&D, ch 7 – How Moral Commitment Develops Throughout Life) Team meetings & work period	STP-4
12	11-11   11-13	Moral exemplars, positivism, and your project (C&D, ch 10 – Positivity and Hopefulness) Team meetings & work period
13	11-18   11-20	Moral exemplars, you, and valuing your work (C&D, ch 11 – The Unity of Self and Morality) Team meetings & work period	CN
		Thanksgiving recess, 11-22 through 11-30
14	12-2 12-4	Peer review of STP reports Poster Session for LINC students and staff	STP-5a STP-6a
15	12-9 12-11	Course evaluation; final report for instructor review Team meetings & work period	STP-5b
	12-15	Final presentations, Monday, 1:30-4:30	STP-5c, 6b,
	12-18	Project evaluations and CN due, Thursday, 3:00 PM, 210 Engineering Hall	STP-7, CN

Key

C&D = Anne Colby and William Dammon, Some Do Care: Contemporary Lives of Moral Commitment

STP-pref = Semester Team Project - preference; on which project you would like to work?

STP-1 = Team evaluation scheme (10 points)

STP-2 = Project definition (20 points)

STP-3 = Progress report and preliminary solution (120 points)

STP-4 = Analysis of any safety, environmental, and ethical issues (20 points)

STP-5a = Final report for review by peers (25 points)

STP-5b = Final report for review by instructors (25 points)

STP-5c = Final report for Project Partner (250 points)

STP-6a = Poster session (50 points)

STP-6b = Oral presentation (100 points)

STP-7 = Evaluate the contributions of you and your team members, based on STP-1 (20 points)

CN = Course Notebook: submit your course notebook completed through the previous day (parts total to 300 points)

PA = Project Assistant

LINC Teams

** for more information on individual teams this semester, feel free to view the group's online weekly progress reports here

Cunningham Children's Home

• Program Development
• Transition
• Commemoration
• Fundraising

Habitat Global Village

• Research

Champaign-Urbana Schools Foundation

• Teacher Resources

Habitat for Humanity

• Manual for Homeowners
• Marketing and Logistics
• Playhouse Design 1
• Playhouse Design 2
• Supply and Inventory

Home Hi

• FIRST Competition

North South University of Bangladesh

• Green Campus Booklet

Swann Special Care Center

• Adaptive Physical Equipment

Unity East Schools

• Grade School
• Junior High

Course Documents

All files are in .ppt or .doc format unless otherwise stated.


• Lecture: What is a Project? (John)
• Lecture: Team Presentations (Rumi) (src: http://www.presentersonline.com/basics/)
• Lecture: Conflict
• STP3: Guidelines and Evaluation
• Lecture 2
• Lecture 1 (Bruce) and Lecture 1 files (John and Leslie)
• Table of Project Time Spent
• Meetings, Bloody Meetings - Information on how to running effective meetings.
• Project Overview
• Course Notebook & Questions: Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5 | Week 6
• Syllabus | STP | Schedule

Purchase Request Information

As a LINC student team, in order to be reimbursed for your project-related purchases, you must first print out and complete the purchase form below. Guidelines for these requests are also listed below.


• Guidelines for purchases
• Purchase request form (download and print)