Building a Predictive Probabilistic Model
This assignment’s objective is to build a probabilistic model to predict the winners of MarchMadness, game by game. As summarized by Google AI: “March Madness is the nickname for theNational […]
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Archiving New York Political Events
In this scaffolded assignment, students propose a topic related to New York City politics, visit an archive, and identify a few primary source documents that might help them formulate an […]
Read moreCreating Commodities
While doing a sequence of readings on capitalism and its discontents, this assignments tasks students with considering how things became commodities (like water, land, animals’ bodies, etc). To familiarize students […]
Read moreIllness Narrative
Students conduct an ethnographic interview with someone they know who has experienced “illness” in their life. The illness narratives are used to support student learning about the methods of ethnography. […]
Read morePhoto Essay on Political Participation
Students are tasked with attending an in person or online a political event that takes place in New York City. For the assignment, students take 5 pictures (or 5 screenshots […]
Read moreEthnographic Journal
Students are asked to keep an ethnographic journal throughout the semester to observe and analyze an aspect of society or culture. Each journal will be written in response to a […]
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