SEP Session 2, Day 6 (9-11)

Each day, we will feature several courses. Throughout the session, we will feature as many courses as possible.

Today in "How to Make a Podcast," students worked on recording their final podcasts.

Today in "In "From Hamlet to Black Panther," students compared the stories of Hamlet and The Lion King (1994) looking for parallels.

Today in "Dimensions of Disadvantage," students discussed and debated queer-baiting in Ariana Grande's song "Monopoly" and Taylor Swift's song "You Need to Calm Down". Students then watched an episode of Queer Eye (season 2, episode 5). The makeover subject for this episode was Skylar, a trans man. While watching, students were asked to think about gender, sexuality, masculinity, geography, and other dimensions of identity while watching. Following the episode, students had a discussion about what they noticed.

Queer-baiting: Queerbaiting is a marketing technique for fiction and entertainment in which creators hint at, but then not actually depict, same-sex romance. They do so to attract a queer audience with the suggestion of relationships that appeal to them, while at the same time attempting to avoid alienating other consumers. (source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queerbaiting)

"Math, Statistics, and Game Theory" class today was focused on what an experiment is. Students participated in a simulation selective attention hypothesis experiment before getting into the nitty gritty of experiments.They learned that an experiment involves a treatment and a control, an independent variable is a treatment or a cause, a dependent variable is an outcome or an effect, and that there are two kinds of hypotheses (null and alternative).Finally, the class learned and applied the average treatment effect formula to various real-world applications.

Today in "Architecture: Redesign in order to Reuse," students continued working on building houses. Students also began planning their redesign of the Landmark hotel.

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Today in "(Super) Human Physics," students analyzed the average height of a human's jump and compared it to the height of Superman's jump. After looking at jump data from a previous lab, students watched in order to approximate Superman's average jump height. The students' average was 24-32 cm and was compared to Superman's of about a 38 story tall building. That is super tall! Then, students finished the day working on an optics lab.

Best,

Nicole, Olivia and Abby