Course:  Cog468 "Cognitive Science Captstone Seminar"
Instructor:  Craig Graci
Office:  114 Snygg Hall
Telephone:  315.312.2690

Text: "The Craft of Research", by Wayne Booth, Gregory Colomb, and Joseph Williams

Course Description

The course will feature individual interdisciplinary research projects of a relatively modest scale. Students will have wide latitude in negotiating a realm of study, as well as the approach to study of the selected project, so long as the topic stands in a justifiable relationship to the computational/representational assumption which unifies the field.

Main Course Objectives

In this course you will:

• Satisfy the capstone goals of integration, application, transition, and breadth.
• Provide an assessment of the Cognitive Science program at Oswego.
• Demonstrate your resourcefulness, resilience, and persistence in the process of doing an individual research project.
• Demonstrate that you can build and maintain developmental, assessment, and showcase portfolios online .
• Present research reports both orally and in writing.
• Participate in peer review processes and cognitive apprenticeship relationships.
• Work collaboratively on all aspects of producing a Cognitive Science Capstone Conference.

Requirements

1. Propose, develop, defend, present and "publish" a modest research project.
2. Craft, using XeX, a process/progress/project portfolio.
3. Craft, using XeX, an assessment portfolio relating their work to the CogSci at Oswego learning outcomes.
4. Craft, using XeX, a showcase portfolio.
5. Present oral and written reports.
6. Each student will be responsible for securing and actively engaging a project committee consisting of four members: two internal (within the class) peer reviewers, an internal project advisor (the instructor for this course), and an external project advisor (another faculty member associated with cognitive science at Oswego).
7. Participate in project committees as peer consultants and reviewers.
8. Collaboratively organize, administer, and participate in a Cognitive Science Capstone Conference.

Grading

Your grade will be determined on the basis of:

• Web process/progress/project portfolio. (100 points)
• Web assessment portfolio. (100 points)
• Web showcase portfolio. (100 points)
• Oral and written presentations. (100 points)
• Surveys of your research committee members and participation on the research committee of others. (100 points)
• Final Paper. (200 points)
• Contribution to success of the Capstone Conference. (100 points)
• Miscellaneous activities and assignments. (100 points)
• Attendance (100 points)