ANT 390 Cultural Simulation: The Mars Settlement

Spring 2006

CALENDAR & ASSIGNMENTS

Version 1.0
pending review and update
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Electronic Reserve Readings

PRELUDE:

DATE
CLASSROOM ACTIVITY
ON-LINE LAB
WEEKS I - IV
FIRST           QUARTER
WEEK I

JAN

Tue 17


Thr 19
INTRODUCTION
Part I
    A. The Charge, The Process, The Evaluations
         B. 1st Quarter Problem
            C. Three Task Forces:
                    Mission, Dome'estics, Emergency
Part II
    A. Divide and discuss
COMPUTER LAB - I
Part I
* why NOT MS products ?
    A. Mozilla browser/ MOOzilla client, and others
        B. The MUD: SolSySim
Part II
   A. HTML: page format, tables, lists, links & images
= = =
select your photo
= = =
DUE:1st journal entry
WEEK II

JAN

Tue 24

Thr 26
PARSING the LABORS
Part I.
    A. The Roles Fair
        B. About 1st Q Paper
Part II
            C. Introduction of Personas
                D. Moderator, agenda & minutes
1 st COMMUNITY MEETING
= = =
Robert's Rules
"submission adenga"
= = =
DUE: 2nd journal entry

WEEK III

JAN

Tue 31

FEB

Thr _2

2nd COMMUNITY MEETING

Moderator: ____ , Secretary: ____

"submission adenga"
COMPUTER LAB -III
FIRST COMMUNITY MEETING ON-LINE

Moderator: ____, Secretary: _____

"submission adenga"

DUE: 3rd journal entry
--- Subsequent agendas to be determined by community process. ---
WEEK IV

FEB
Tue _7

Thr _9
3rd COMMUNITY MEETING

Moderator : ____, Secretary: ______

Part I
    A. Report:
        1. Scenario
        2. Base Ops
        3. Gvt & Economy
        4. Admin & Comm
    B. Everybody's Roles
Part II
    A. Charge :
        elections, governance, selves

On-Line Activity:

        Shuttle everyone from PMS down to Mars Base

Moderator: _____, Secretary: _____

DUE: 4th journal entry
1st professionalism ratings
1st Q Paper "Roles" on-line
WEEKS V-VIII
SECOND           QUARTER
topics below not in bold are subject to revision
WEEK V

FEB

Tue 14

Thr 16
Assigned reading: the "Role papers" on-line;  identify and make links

Guest Speaker: t.b.a.
On-line session
agenda ?

DUE:5th journal entry
WEEK VI

FEB

Tue 21

Thr 23
see agenda & minutes,
on record
On-line session:

DUE: 6th journal entry

WEEKVII

FEB Tue 28

MAR

Thr _2

Assigned reading: Jay, and Hine

    A. Social organization
     

tentative
Field Trip:
USGS Planetary Data Center

DUE: Scenario
7th journal entry

WEEK VIII
MAR

Tue _7

Thr _9

  Lifelines - informing life histories

On-line session

DUE: 8th journal entry
2nd professionalism ratings
2nd Q Paper"Life History"

WEEKS IX-XIII
THIRD           QUARTER

WEEK IX
MAR

Tue 14

Thr 16

Assigned reading: The "Life History" papers on-line; identify and make links

Taking stock:
    A.the Scenario;
        B. SolSystem relations

on-line session
Group and individual progress reports

DUE:
9th journal entry

Delegation en route to CONTACT

WEEK X
MAR
20-24

CONTACT 2006 Conference
NASA-Ames Research Center Campus, Moffett Field, Mountain View, CA
17 - 19 March

on-line activities Fri nite and Saturday

SPRING           BREAK

WEEK XI
MAR

Tue 28

Thr 30

A Protocol for Problem Solving

 

Group and individual progress reports

On-line session

DUE:
10th & 11th journal entry

WEEK XII
APR

Tue _4

Thr _7

Assigned reading: Los Harcones 1 & 2, Brown, McIntosh, & from Human Organization

the polity and the economny

On-line session

DUE:
12th journal entry
3rd professionalism ratings
3rd Q Paper"Problem Solving"

 
HONORS WEEK
WEEK XIII
APR

Tue 11

Thr 13

Assigned reading:
          The "Problem Solving" papers;
    identify and make links

 

On-line session

DUE:
13th journal entry

WEEKS XIV-XVI
FOURTH           QUARTER
WEEK XIV
APR

Tue 18

Thr 20

Introduction to
The Search for Culture

On-line session

DUE:
14th journal entry

WEEK XV
APR

Tue 25

Thr 27

The Search for Culture continues

(NAU course evaluations)

On-line Session

DUE:
15th journal entry

 

WEEK XVI
Reading Week
WEEK XVI
Reading Week
MAY

Tue _ 2

Thr _4

Review web chronicle; edit papers, links

DUE:
Complete Writing Portfolio
including
4th Q paper"Culture of Mars Base"
Lab Paper: "Tour of Your Space" narrated and annotated
also
16th journal entry
4th professionalism ratings

FINAL WEEK

MAY

8 - 11

Mars Final Exam/ Post-tests
( t.b.a. )

MAY

Fri 12 - 13

NAU COMMENCEMENT

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