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 UMN Humphrey School
Summer Capstone 2022

Instructor: Dr. Robin Phinney

May 15 - August 20, 2022 | Tuesdays 6:00-8:45 pm
In-person sessions: 1-142 Carlson
Zoom link for virtual sessions

Course Schedule and Syllabus
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Weekly Topics and Resources

 
Week 1: foundations
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Activities
  • Review syllabus, schedule, and course expectations
  • Discuss foundations, research harms, and how to develop and refine research questions

Key Questions
  • What research approaches, designs, and methods might work for your project?
  • How will you avoid harm to research subjects?
  • How will you ensure that your team meets all interim and final deadlines?
WEEK 2: ASSESSING THE CONTEXT
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Activities
  • Discuss literature and document review and stakeholder analysis

Key Questions
  • Where will you look for existing evidence on your topic?
  • How will you engage different types of stakeholders?
Week 3: Data Collection I
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Activities
  • Class discussion, question/answers, and group time

Key questions: 
  • What does existing evidence tell you about your research questions? What information is missing?
  • What data will allow you to answer your research questions?
  • What are the limits to your design?
Week 4: data collection II
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Activities
  • Class discussion, questions/answers

Key questions: 
  • What data will your team collect? 
  • How will your team distribute tasks related to data collection?
  • How will you minimize biases?
week 5: data analysis I
Activities
  • Class discussion, question/answers, and group time

Key questions: 
  • What is your method and process for collecting and analyzing your data? 
  • How will you keep track of preliminary findings?
week 6: data analysis II
Activities
  • Group meetings w/Robin

Key questions: 
  • What is working well with your team dynamics? What isn’t working so well?
  • What are early findings from the data collection and analysis?
week 7: deep in the data
Activities
  • Class discussion, question/answers, and group time

Key questions: 
  • What findings are emerging? 
  • What questions have been answered? 
  • What questions remain unanswered?
week 8: no class -- enjoy your holiday!
week 9: from data to evidence
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Activities
  • Class discussion, question/answers, and group time

Key questions:
  • What inferences can you draw from the analysis?
week 10: preparing the final products
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Activities
  • Group meetings w/Robin

Key questions
  • What is the key message you need to deliver in the final presentation and how will you do this convincingly?
  • What supplementary materials will help your client act on your findings?
week 11: presentation rehearsals I
week 12: Presentation rehearsals II
week 13: no class -- client presentations
week 14: wrapping up
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