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Welcome to the first day of a six-month journey!

Welcome to the first day of a six-month journey!. Six Skills We Develop in the Senior Sequence. A Perfect Storm? John Beddington, the UK government's chief scientific adviser, warns of a possible crisis in 2030. By 2030 "a whole series of events come together":

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Welcome to the first day of a six-month journey!

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  1. Welcome to the first day of a six-month journey!

  2. Six Skills We Develop in the Senior Sequence

  3. A Perfect Storm? • John Beddington, the UK government's chief scientific adviser, warns of a possible crisis in 2030. • By 2030 "a whole series of events come together": • The world's population will rise from 6bn to 8bn (33%) • Demand for food will increase by 50% • Demand for water will increase by 30% • Demand for energy will increase by 50%

  4. “You are here because you are the best and brightest students,” Chancellor PradeepKhosla said. “Here, you will learn to use your left and right brain to think critically and to solve problems. You will learn to work with your peers and faculty members in different disciplines…That is the type of collaboration and thinking that we need to address problems facing our society—like food and water shortages, global warming and health issues.” “The greatest search engine is not Google,” Don Murphy (welcome week keynote speaker) said. “The greatest search engine is the human mind…You must ask the question, “Who Am I?” What is my unique genius?” Use these years to gain a deeper understanding of yourself, not in terms of grades only but in terms of understanding, wisdom and knowledge.”

  5. Your Research Identity * 1. Describe yourself or your career ambition in one or two sentences * 2. What are you most curious about? * 3. What social, cultural, economic and/or environmental problem concerns you the most? * 4. What positive (local, regional and/or global) trend, initiative or project most inspires you?

  6. Your Six-Month Journey Begin with broad questions narrow down, focus in. Proposal OBSERVE Analyze data. Reach conclusions. Senior Research Project Sept. 27, 2012 October November December January February Mar. 14, 2013

  7. Required Readings • Available at the UCSD bookstore, and on reserve at the Geisel Library. We will use the same books next quarter in USP 187 • Graff, Gerald, Cathy Birkenstein, and Russel K. Durst. 2012. "They say/I say" : the moves that matter in academic writing. New York: W. W Norton Company. • Green, Gary P. and Anna Haines. 2012. Asset building and community development. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications. • Robson, Colin. 2011. Real world research : a resource for users of social research methods in applied settings. Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley-Blackwell. • Recommended Readings • All available at the UCSD bookstore, and on reserve at the Geisel Library • De Young, Raymond and Thomas Princen. 2012. The localization reader : adapting to the coming downshift. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. • Fainstein, Susan S. 2010. The just city. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. • Marshall, Catherine and Gretchen B. Rossman. 2011. Designing qualitative research. Los Angeles. • Turabian, Kate L. 2007. A manual for writers of research papers, theses, and dissertations : Chicago style for students and researchers. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. • Yin, Robert K. 2009. Case study research : design and methods. Los Angeles, Calif.: Sage Publications.

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