Course Syllabus

The project portion of the capstone sequence is cross-listed:

  • PSTAT 197B (Winter)/197C (Spring)

  • CMPSC 190DE (Winter)/190DF (Spring)

In addition to each project having sponsors and faculty mentors, the class logistics will be handled by the teaching staff.

Instructors

  • Alex Franks

  • Sang-Yun Oh

Teaching Assistants

  • Joshua Bang (class, Carpe Data, CCBER, CSEP, FLIR, NRI)

  • Chau Tran (class, CalCOFI1, CalCOFI2, NCEAS)

  • Jiajing Zheng (Evidation, Sansum)

  • Sikun Lin (AppFolio, Invoca)

Grading

You are expected to fully engage with your project groups. While you will be assigned a letter grade, the evaluation is based on your participation and group work. The following will be the grading criteria.

  • Meetings/Participation (individual): 20%

    • Attendance in group meetings and lecture time sessions

  • Assigned Reading: 20%

    • Must make at least one comment (question, answer, thought etc) on assigned readings

  • Deliverables (group): (More details to be added)

    • Progress updates: 30%
      3 progress updates in this Jupyter book

    • End of Quarter Project Summary: 20%
      Report and video presentation

  • Sponsor and mentor evaluations (individual): 10%
    Based on your engagement and contribution to the project