Each student in the class must complete ONE of the RPEs listed below as part of a two or three person team. There are two teams for each RPE, except for the RPE on 27 June, for which there are three teams. Please give both RPE and team when you send me your selections.
As you create your RPE please remember that the descriptions you find on this web site are intended to be starting points away from which you develop your roles. Please feel free to contact any of the course personnel (me or the TAs) for advice or feedback as you develop your ideas.
In planning your RPE please remember the documentation requirements. Each team must complete a five hundred word document explaining the position of the team with respect to the issue addressed inthe RPE. This document must be the result of research by and discussion among members of the team. (Interaction between the teams is encouraged; the two teams both want the RPE to be stimulating to the audience; springing a clever surprise that leaves the other team speechless lowers the mark of both teams!)
These documents must be made available to the class. Students are expected to read them before coming to the RPE. To make them available they should be e-mailed to me (wmcowan@cgl.uwaterloo.ca) before noon on the day before the RPE. (That is, because most RPEs are on Mondays they should usually be e-mailed to me before noon on Sunday.) I will link them to this page using the name of the team.
To make it easy for group members to contact each other I have listed group members by their e-mail addresses.
Date | RPE | Team A | Team B | Team C |
23 May | Neophiles and Neophobes consensus |
Neophiles q35huang, astu, j457liu |
Neophobes m2hayash, r24lin, vnly@edu |
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29 May | Hard Head versus Soft Heart consensus |
Hard Heads j336liu, wjwillem, s2vij |
Soft Hearts jkw2lo@edu, xj2yu, kevin.cai@edu |
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5 June | Ambition consensus |
Veterans wgordon, kpalway, flli |
Challengers apbrioux, w23lam, otsylke |
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12 June | Evolution versus Revolution consensus |
Evolvers jonathan.smith@edu, zkchen@edu, amy.li@edu |
Revolvers jzshen@edu, gssuri, mj5murph |
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19 June | The Social Self and the Sociable Self consensus |
Social selves asfujita, james.cagalawan@edu, tj3rober |
Sociable selves alspeats@edu, jordan.upiter@edu, rdwebber@edu |
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26 June | The Fish and the Fishers consensus |
Fish s4weng, jjwiebe, y45xia |
Fishers j58song, jjslam |
Civilization x272liu, muribazo, djwierds |
10 July | Safety versus Freedom consensus |
Better Safe than Sorry gssuri, y43ji, q225zhan |
Don't Fight Terror with Terror. anna.lorimer@edu, seshah, t24pham |
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17 July | War in the Internet consensus |
Techno-optimists adanciulescu@edu, patrick.guo@edu |
Techno-pessimists r2goswami@edu, jchoek, xycong@edu |
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