General Projects

You will be randomly assigned to interview someone from the class and you will be assigned to participate in an interview with someone else from the class. You must conduct each interview face to face (ideally in person).  

Evidence/Completion (5 points)

·       Print a photo or screenshot from your interview and glue or staple it into your journal.

·       Remember to include the name of the person you interviewed

·       Write at least 20 answers from the meeting, written in your journal (you can skip around but include the numbers so I know what question they refer to).

·       Write the reflection (below)

Reflection (5 points)

Write a 300+ word introduction to the person that answers the following questions: 

a)      What is the one thing I should know about this person that sets them apart from their classmates? 

b)     What do you think you could learn from knowing this person? 

c)      What do you wish you had followed up on during your interview? 

d)     What was the most surprising thing that happened during your interview?

Questions
1.     For what in your life do you feel most grateful?
2.     If you could change anything about your time at UR so far, what would it be?
3.     In less than three minutes, tell your interviewer your life story in as much detail as possible.
4.     If you could wake up tomorrow having gained any one quality or ability, what would it be?
5.     If you could know the full truth about how others perceive you, would you want to know?
6.     Given the choice of anyone in the world, whom would you want as a dinner guest?
7.     Before making a telephone call, do you ever rehearse what you are going to say? Why?
8.     What would constitute a “perfect” day for you?
9.     Would it be worse to lose 10% of your intelligence or 10% of your physical health?
10.  Would you choose to live for 5,000 years if it were possible?
11.  What is one of your most treasured memories?
12.  Is there something that you’ve dreamed of doing for a long time? Why haven’t you done it?
13.  What would other people say is the greatest accomplishment of your life? Are they right?
14.  What do you value most in a friendship?
15.  When did you last sing to yourself? To someone else? What were the songs?
16.  What is something you regret missing out on?
17.  Name three things you and your interviewer have in common besides being in this class.
18.  What would you change if you knew you only had 5 more years to live?
19.  Do you think you want to have children? Why or why not?
20.  What do you think is the purpose of college? Be honest!
21.  Do you feel your childhood was happier than most other people’s?
22.  Would you like to be famous? In what way?
23.  If you had $1M that you had to spend this year, how would you spend it?
24.  What is the most disturbing movie you’ve ever seen? Why was it so disturbing?
25.  Do you think you are more ethical than most people?
26.  Tell your interviewer something that you like about them already.
27.  What, if anything, is too serious to be joked about?
28.  What is the one task you keep procrastinating on that continues to haunt you?
29.  What sentimental or symbolic objects did you bring with you to college?
30.  Ask your interviewer for advice on how to handle a problem you are facing.

Sign up in advance to participate in this project. At 6 pm every student claims one public chalkboard on campus and writes an argument, in the form of an argument map on their chalkboard. Then they need to find one other map to improve/add to the argument map and a third map, which they add an objection to. Take a picture of all 3 maps. The assignment ends at 9 am the next day. Do not put names on any of the maps. 

Evidence: Pictures 

Find two people who disagree about something and offer your services as the adjudicator of their dispute. Hear both sides, ask questions, and then you must decide that one person is wrong and the other person is correct. After the disagreement, write a paragraph about the dispute and map the argument and counter-argument. What is the crux of the dispute? Do you think they saw it that way? 

Create 5 TikTok style videos where you survey people about a series of Trolley problems, both Thomson’s 3 (turning, pushing, transplant) formulations and at least 1 that you created yourself. Then write a response evaluating whether your 5 respondents’ assessments of various trolley problems were coherent and extensionally adequate. Use this project to reflect on the value and limits of reflective equilibrium. 

Make your own purpose project for one of the readings from this semester. Make your own rubric. Then, do the purpose project and write a reflection that follows the rubric. 

Evidence: Prove that you did it.