The goal of a service-learning project is to enhance learning by sharing with others and actively reflecting on the process afterward. The community, or "others" involved should also benefit from this interaction. On April 24th the class interacted with seventh-graders from a local middle school (TJR). See below for more more details and a link to photos from the visit.
Service-learning projects are one way to apply what we know from research about perception to needs outside the classroom. There are many other areas where applied research is benefitting individuals in society at large. This course will also emphasize such applied areas, and as their first paper, the students will each summarize the current status of an area of applied perception research (see below for links to these papers).
Finally, as part of this course, the indivdual students will do some background research and develop a proposal for an original research project (see below for links to these papers).
Since all of the above will be documented on this webpage, it will be updated as the semester progresses. If you are interested, the webpages from previous classes are also available: 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000
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The Class: (or click here for our fun photo)
Back Row: Annie Nicholson,
ChrisFrazier, Todd Yarbrough, James Blackshear, Donia Nolan, Megan
Anderson
Middle Row: Sarah Penn, Kristen Turner, Katie
Brockie, Candace Palmer, Cari Denby
Front Row: Ian Norris (TA), Jana Vinson,
Leah Herrell,
Emily Stover,
Amber Stary, Dr. Lauren
Scharff
On April 24th, the class visited TJR Middle School, made handouts and gave presentations, and interacted with seventh-graders in Mrs. Leah Kahn's science class. The interactions involved many demonstrations to help the students understand some basic principles about perceptual processing and some of the effects of perceptual aging. Click here for photos of our visit!
The final major assignment this semester was an experimental write-up of a proposed, original research project related to some topic in perception.
