Date | Topic | Assignment |
| 8/29 | Introduction to Course | Assignment 1; Questionnaire |
| Sept | ********************************************************** | |
| 9/5 | Discussion of Topics of Interest (from Questionnaire) | Assignment 2 |
| 9/12 | Marie Banich — Guest Lecture about "Institute of Cognitive Science" | Assignment 3 |
| 9/19 | Demonstrations: Envisionment and Discovery Collaboratory (in L3D Lab; DLC 170) | Assignment 4 |
| 9/26 | Debra Goldberg — Guest Lecture about "Bioinformatics" | Assignment 5 |
| Oct | ********************************************************* | |
| 10/3 | Resources for PhD Students (online resources, guidelines for writing papers, giving research talks, writing dissertations) | Assignment 6 |
| 10/10 | Advanced Graduate Student Panel | Assignment 7 |
| 10/17 | Amer Diwan — Guest Lecture about "Programming Languages, Software Engineering, and Computer Science Education" | Assignment 8 |
| 10/24 | Employment in a Globalized World — A Report of the ACM Job Migration Task Force | Assignment 9 |
| 10/31 | Discussion of Interviews of Course Participants with their Advisors | Assignment 10 |
| Nov | ********************************************************* | |
| 11/7 | John Bacus (Guest Lecture) — SketchUp, 3D Warehouse and Google Earth | Assignment 11 |
| 11/14 | Derry / Fischer: "Transdisciplinary Graduate Education" | Assignment 12 |
| 11/21 | Fall Break / Thanksgiving | |
| 11/28 | Visit to the Google Boulder Offices; meet at: 2590 Pearl Street | Assignment 13 |
| Dec | ********************************************************* | |
| 12/5 | Discussion of Existing PhD Theses | Assignment 14 |
| 12/12 | Discussion of your own envisioned PhD Theses |