Final Paper Assignment: Incubation Residency
Due Date: Your final paper is due on Tuesday, March 15 at midnight in Canvas.
Undergraduate students: Write a five-page, single-spaced paper. Your paper should also include at least eight citations and a literature cited section. The literature cited is not included in the page count.
Here is the outline for your paper. Please label each section clearly.
Congratulations! You have been awarded an “Incubation Residency” with the Environmental Arts and Humanities Initiative. The Environmental Arts and Humanities Initiative acknowledges that the environmental challenges we face are unprecedented in their complexity, danger, and scale. At the same time, we know that environmental challenges present correspondingly important opportunities. Meeting these challenges and opportunities will require new ideas and new forms of intellectual and cultural leadership based on a scientific understanding of Earth’s environmental and ecological systems, and grounded in a deep understanding of the sources of human wisdom and values. Neither the sciences nor the humanities can meet the challenges alone. Together, we have a chance.
During your Incubation Residency, you will have one week to explore a question(s) of your choice with a team of humanities scholars, environmental artists, and environmental scientists. This residency includes lodging, food, travel, and honoraria for five people. In preparation for your residency, we ask that you submit an outline of your residency plan by Tuesday, March 15. Please including the following in your plan:
Title: Develop a catchy, engaging title for your residency.
Overview: Develop a two-sentence overview of your residency.
Environmental Issue: What environmental issue are you going to explore? For example: wildfire, fracking, microplastic pollution in drinking water, missing and murdered Indegenous women near petrochemical extraction sites, etc.
Background (at least two pages for undergraduates and four pages for graduate students): Write the origin story of the issue. You’ll want to make your topic accessible to the general public, so write about it in a straightforward way that does not include jargon. Include the following:
What is the history of this issue? How did this issue start? How has it changed since it started?
What is the current scientific understanding of this issue? (You’ll want to cite the seminal works in this section.)
How have the arts and humanities engaged with this issue? (You’ll want to cite the seminal works in this section, too.)
Questions: What conceptual question(s) are you going to explore during your residency? How could these question(s) help humankind make the turn toward a more sustainable life on Earth?
Collaborators: Build a team of people, including yourself, for your residency. One of your collaborators must be a scientist who can provide the empirical perspective your collaboration will need. The other collaborators will be artists and humanities scholars who can provide the conceptual and creative insight your project will need. All of your collaborators should be from different disciplines. (Undergraduate students will have three people, including themselves, on their teams. Graduate students will have five people, including themselves, on their teams.) For each person on your team, provide a biosketch that includes:
The person’s name and affiliations
A brief bio (about 150 words)
The method(s) that person brings to your team, including an explanation of each method and what you anticipate that method will contribute to the project.
** For the part about me you can make up anything you want
**Name Bader Alabbad, Major Business Administration – senior
** included methods examples used by speakers and such in weekly reflections included 3,8,9,10
Team preparation: Assign key readings that your collaborators should complete before your residency. Provide an annotated bibliography for each reading. (Undergraduates will assign and annotate three readings.)
*** These are the three resources I showed to the professor and approved them to be included in the paper. I have done 2 annotations for the first 2 just need one more annotation and 5 other sources, total of 8 as mentioned:
(Sources)
Masri, S., Scaduto, E., Jin, Y., & Wu, J. (2021). Disproportionate Impacts of Wildfires among Elderly and Low-Income Communities in California from 2000-2020. International journal of environmental research and public health, 18(8), 3921.
Hutson, S. H. (2018, November 15). Study: People of Color and Low-Income Residents Most Vulnerable to Wildfire Impacts. KQED.
Rosenthal, A. (2021, March 26). Health and social impacts of California wildfires and the deficiencies in current recovery resources: An exploratory qualitative study of systems-level issues. Plos One.
Interdisciplinary best practices: Given what you have learned this term, provide an overview of best practices for working on interdisciplinary teams. What would you like your collaborators to consider before they start the residency together? What will they need to know to work well as a team?
Literature cited: Cite all the literature you reference in your proposal. This section is not included in the page count. (Undergraduates will include at least eight references. References do not include the annotated bibliography you included in the above section.)
**I included an example files of the weekly reflections and some of the methods used and should also give you an idea about the lectures and guest speakers we have. Also in weekly reflection 3 you have the in part 4 the topic sort of start-up idea presented. also the class subject, number, and professor.
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