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== Look at me... I'm a new section ==
<p>Tactic #1<br></p>
Tactic #2<br>
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== Overview ==
Overview:
A lot of students here at Berkeley don't ever learn the design process or gain design thinking skills. This process and these skills are very important in real life and give students an advantage in jobs and in their future. Students from most majors and students who don't seek out this knowedlge knowledge are at a disadvantage. This goal would give students out of design these design thinking skills by enrollment in our organization - The Invention Corps. Students from multiple different majors and fields that normally wouldn't get the design experience would be taught so and futhermore furthermore use it in projects paired with professors and PhD students here at Berkeley.
Project leads: Precious Listana & James Zamora & Alexander Kamgar & Sydney Zachariah
Overview:
Students have a hard time anticipating the needs and roles they play in their specific majors. Often students maybe even regret the major or path they chose in college due to just unknown factors that can be avoided with more knoweldgeknowledge. This goal focuses on delivering students knoweldge knowledge about the possible fields they can go to targeted specifically to freshman. This optional class would allow students to get a little glimpse into most majors here on campus, providing them information on workload, requirements, difficulty, opportunities, resources, and most importantly jobs. This class will hopefully reduce the number of students who switch their majors sophomre sophomore and junior year or even prevent students regreting regretting their major choice.
This class would have numerous professors come in every week and teach the same curriculum each module. Students then would have the option of going to whichever professor / major they are interested in and stay in that all week doing all the material and maybe even homework. Then the next week they would choose another professor / major module to attend to gain more knowedlge knowledge about all Cal has to offer.
Project leads: Alex Kamgar
1. Start asking around students to gauge interest in a class like this '''(BY: 03/2017)'''
2. Meet with professors and administration to better undestand understand the complexity of creating this type of class and better undestand understand the scope of this project '''(BY: 04/2017)'''
3. Decide curriculum priorities and structure of class, such as how ofter professors should come, how long each module would be, what majors to offer, etc. '''(BY: 04/2017)'''
== Strategy #4: Pairing a design course with the top 10 majors that fall under pre-professional career ambitions ==
Overview: Students coming into college often have a hard time choosing their major. As 18 year olds, it can be extremely stressful and difficult to choose the path they want to take that will affect their careers and success in such a huge way. Often times, students don’t have a well-rounded view of the majors on campus; for example, students who are an intended biology major may never have been exposed to any sort of engineering class that may impact their decision on their major. Therefore, it is important that students are able to experience the different majors on campus before making a decision. To address this problem, we have designed a strategy in which a design course is taught that incorporates the top 10 most popular majors on campus; this course would outline the course work of the majors, prerequisites, possible careers that utilize each major and corresponding salaries, and what the day-to-day life would be in each of those careers (i.e. hours, amount of work, freedom for a personal life, etc.) In designing such a course, students are able to be exposed to a few of the most popular majors on campus and can therefore make a more well-informed decision on their future path.
6. Innovate upon already existing curriculums and further develop a curriculum that will embody design thinking alongside collaborating professors from Jacobs Institute of Design, Saturdja Center (CITRIS) and the Blum Center '''(BY: 05/2017)'''
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