1 Final Project Description
Final Project Purpose
The purpose of this project is for you to research and analyze a topic in order to help solve an environmental justice issue in the United States. You will accomplish this by publishing your work in this college-level open access e-book. This book is an open educational resource (OER), which you will learn more about in the next section. You will learn how to do this from previous class projects and your instructor will provide you with a highly structured set of assignments to help you support your success in this project. By completing this project you will contribute to scholarly work and knowledge about environmental justice to the broader community and build your academic confidence. This process you will engage in is called open pedagogy[1], which we’ll learn more about in the next sections.
Your work can be created in your choice of media and will be shared with peers during the final exam period.
Examples from past students include (but are not limited to):
- GoogleSlides
- ArcGIS StoryMap
- A case study
- A short narrative topic/analysis
- Game
- Podcast
- Comic strip**
- Infographic**
- Song**
- Painting, Sculpture, or sketch**
- Poetry**
- Original research on EJ using Geographic Information System like EJScreen
- Interviewing a local EJ activist, tribal member, government official, scholar
If you have another media that you would like to present your project in, just run it by your instructor!
* You may choose to make your work “anonymous,” use a pseudonym, or use your own name.
If you decide that your work will not be available to future students, this will not affect your grade.
**These types of projects also require a short “artist’s statement” that allows you to explain how you have synthesized course concepts in your creative process.
Knowledge and Skills You Will Use:
- Analyze and synthesize course concepts.
- Apply course concepts to real-world situations.
- Create learning materials that can be used to benefit future students and the community at large.
- Choose an open license so your work can be used by future students.
Tasks:
- Choose a topic related to environmental justice in the United States that you are interested in. You can view some examples of possible topics here.
- Feel free to consult with Deron while you are choosing the topic!
- Submit proposed topic and format (Week Seven). Research tools from the LBCC library will be introduced Week 7 in class.
- Draft an outline/rough draft/raw footage/and submit it on Moodle (Week Nine). This is your chance to draft your ideas, identify sources, and consider the best format for your project
- Cite your sources using any citation style (such APA or MLA). If you are unclear about how to do this, please ask your instructor for guidance.
- Upload your final product to Moodle. Share your work with students during the Finals period (Week Eleven).
- Learn about different types of open licenses and choose how you would like to lic