1060 final exam

1060 final exam

Final Exam. In-class on December 3
Three weeks of preparation time
Thirty minutes in-class writing time

You have three weeks to formulate a question and prepare a response to the question. Develop your response through outlines and drafts until you have a clear sense of the argument you wish to make in thirty minutes of writing time.

COA 1060 has exposed you to a wide range of issues in the designed and built environment (DBE) from multiple points of view. While the lectures, readings, and research projects have introduced you to a lot of material, our primarily goal for this course was to get you thinking about the world around you, to get you to make connections between things that at first may have appeared to have nothing to do with each other, or even with why you were here.

To put this in another way: our goal was for you to leave this class with a head-full of questions. And, ideally, with one or two really good questions that could help you thread together the disparate courses and experiences that await you.

For the Final Exam you are to formulate such a question.

In your response you will be expected to first clearly state the question and then identify the following about the question you have formulated:

how and when you first became aware of the question as an intriguing formulation. (reference readings, lectures, research projects, other classes, other sources)
the constellation of issues the question ties or brings together. (what are the diverse issues, both general and specific, that the question puts into relation with one another?)
why it is worth pursuing as a question? (why are the disciplinary, professional, societal, and personal concerns the question raises important? Reference readings, lectures, research projects, other classes, other sources)
how would you go about pursuing it? (identify a research plan, procedures, sources etc.)
and how would you suggest the College of Architecture at Georgia Tech could go about pursuing the question? (suggest how the college could address the issues that your question puts into play)

As you prepare a response over the next three weeks, we encourage you to review and reflect upon not only the readings, lectures, and research projects from COA 1060 and COA 1011 but from your other classes as well, within and outside the COA. As this course should have made clear, issues that seem to be related to the DBE disciplines and professions play out in larger historical, social, political, cultural, and economic contexts.

The question you formulate could be broadly or narrowly framed. But in either case the question should resonate both within the DBE disciplines and professions and within society at large. Ideally the question you formulate should cut across not just the academic programs and research centers located within the COA but other disciplines as well and, ultimately, be tied to (y)our time, (y)our place, and (y)our cultural moment.

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