This
year’s Capstone Urban Sustainability Project (CUSP) is off to a good
start with a bright and lively class of students
and exciting new features to the course (GG465). For the first class
students started getting to know each other, were introduced to research
journal writing, and engaged in their first team-building exercise.
While the students might not have known exactly what to
expect coming into the class, they left with a promise of a kind of learning
they have never experienced before. The students will be forming consulting
teams and responding to a real Request for Proposals from the City of
Cambridge. Because the class will be working in a group for a full year, the
course began with time spent getting to know each other through peer interviews
and team activities. The consulting groups will be solving real problems for
the City of Cambridge and gaining the kind of experiential learning that is
exclusive to the C3 Innovation Labs (C3IL), a multidisciplinary partnership
within the Laurier Faculty of Arts.
