Week 1 (Jan 19 - 21): Course Introduction
Nudge Introduction
Week 2 (Jan 26 - 28): Humans and Econs
Nudge ch 1-2
Preliminary Essay due Jan 28
Week 3 (Feb 2 - 4): Choice Architecture
Nudge ch 3-5
Paraphrase, Summary Quote exercises
Summary Assignment due Feb 4
Week 4 (Feb 9 - 11): [cancelled due to snow]
Week 5 (Feb 16 - 18): Money
Nudge ch 6-9
Audience
Short Report Due Feb 18
Week 6 (Feb 23 - 25): Health & Freedom
Nudge ch 9-12
Customer Letter Due Feb 25
Week 7 (March 2 - 4): Extensions and Objections
Nudge ch 18-19 & Postscript
Research Topic exercise
Week 8: Spring Break
Week 9 (March 16 - 18): Research
Locating Sources and Finding Research Topics
Library Research Assignment due
March 18
Week 10 (March 23 - 25): Evaluation
and Documentation
Evaluating and Citing Sources
Week 11 (March 30 - April 1):Synthesis
Using Sources
Research Proposal due
April 1
Week 12 (April 6 - 8):Editing
Organization and Revision
In class exercises
Week 13 (April 13 - 15): Conferences
Annotated Bibliography due April 15
Week 14 (April 20 - 22): Preparing Presentations
Audience, Organization, and Visual Information
All Revisions due April 23
Week 15 (April 27 - 29): Presentations
Peer review in class April 29
Week 16 (May 4-6): Make
up days
Presentations
Research papers due May 6