Term Project (Week 1): Topic Idea

In addition to the weekly project, it is also time to start to think about your term project.

• Review the project outline and become familiar with what is required each week (Term Project Overview and Weekly Deliverables). Timely submission of an appropriate topic suggestion (or suggestions) is important at this stage, since you will need to provide the entire class a project proposal that will be peer reviewed during Lesson 5.

• Post a single paragraph that discusses the following three (3) things about your term project for this class. At this stage of the term project, keep the paragraph to less than 300 words. 

  1. What is your term project's main "topic" of focus? Think broadly here (both geographically and conceptually).

  2. Why is your topic important, relevant, timely, etc.?

  3. Describe one (1) data set that you think you will need to collect for your term project. While you are at it, you should verify that you can access the data. Having access to the geographic scale, geographic extent, and temporal dimension of your data is a major hurdle that researchers encounter. Don't put off looking into acquiring your data until later in the course.  Later may be too late for the term project.

  Again, we are looking for a "big picture" description of your term project for this deliverable.

Questions?

Please use the Discussion - General Questions and Technical Help discussion forum to ask any questions now or at any point during this project.