Online Community Impact Projects
IPI 194 - OpenCitizen Project
Overview
Unlock your potential to create real-world change with this dynamic course! Learn to identify community needs, conduct research, and lead projects that make a meaningful impact. Using the proven OpenCitizen process—goal setting, research, planning, action, and reflection—you’ll be guided step by step to design and lead your own community impact project. Along the way, you'll develop essential skills like asking productive questions, gathering information, project planning, problem solving, documentation, and reflection.
Course prerequisites and requirements
To be successful in this course, we recommend English language fluency and computer literacy. We also encourage you to make sure your laptop or desktop computer meets the technical requirements.
Quick facts
- Credits: 3
- Length: 8 weeks
- Cost: $25 + $400
What you’ll learn
- Identify real-world community-based problems, issues, or challenges
- Practice a research process, including asking productive questions, summarizing source content, and reporting on findings
- Design and execute a community impact project using various tools and techniques
- Document project processes and outcomes
- Reflect on project impact and lessons learned
What to expect in class
Transcript
This course appears on your transcript identically to how it appears on the transcript of an enrolled ASU student who has taken the course on one of ASU’s campuses. Course attendance dates will be listed on your transcript. An on-demand course will appear on your transcript in the session you complete the course.
This course satisfies 3 credit hours at Arizona State University. It is strongly encouraged that you consult with your institution of choice to determine how these credits will be applied to their degree requirements prior to transferring your credit.
Faculty and course staff
Lindy
Elkins-Tanton
Foundation and Regents Professor,
School Of Earth and Space Exploration
Arizona State University
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