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HUB XC 410

  • Creativity/Innovation
  • Research and Information Literacy
  • Teamwork/Collaboration
  • Writing-Intensive Course

Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - Are you looking to take on a real-world challenge, build your collaboration, leadership, and written communication skills? Would you like to work with fellow students from across BU and with a community partner on an interesting and engaging project? Then the Cross-College Challenge (XCC) is for you! This particular course will focus on writing-intensive within the communication Hub area. Each semester there are exciting new courses offered in areas such as social equity, data science, sustainability, public health, and more. XCC courses are open to juniors and seniors from all schools and colleges at BU. For specific course offerings visit: bu.edu/xcc. Create-Communicate-Collaborate. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Teamwork/Collaboration, Creativity/Innovation, and Research and Information Literacy.

FALL 2024 Schedule

Section Instructor Location Schedule Notes
A1 Williams CDS B64 F 11:15 am-2:00 pm Project: Justice Media Co-Lab This Cross-College Challenge (XCC) and BU Spark! course is a newsroom and a laboratory. If you have a background in computer and data science, statistics, computer engineering, or journalism-related disciplines, you will have an opportunity to work on interdisciplinary, student teams to co-produce a data-driven news investigation for one of our established media partners (like the Boston Globe, CBS Boston, GBH, USA Today, and more). You will work on computational investigations focused on issues of justice and accountability and be guided by veteran faculty practitioners in journalism and computer and data science. Cross-College Challenge courses offer a unique project-based learning experience in which interdisciplinary student teams tackle real-world problems in collaboration with community partners. An application and approval to this course is required. Visit this link for more information and access to this application: https://www.bu.edu/spark/students/jmcl/

FALL 2024 Schedule

Section Instructor Location Schedule Notes
C1 Lamontagne CGS 323 TR 12:30 pm-1:45 pm Project: Back to the Past-Gaming for Immersive Role Play In this game-based Cross-College Challenge (XCC) course, students will play and then design an immersive role-playing game for the Reacting to the Past (RTTP) consortium, our community partner. RTTP uses active, experiential learning to help students engage with important social, political, historical, and cultural debates. Student teams will research, create, playtest, and pitch their own micro-games based on controversies broadly related to topics such as social justice, science and technology, law, and/or focused in the Northeast. Cross-College Challenge courses offer a unique project-based learning experience in which interdisciplinary student teams tackle real-world problems in collaboration with community partners. Note: This class has a Prerequisite: WR 120 or equivalent.

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