Readings/Participation You are responsible for all course readings on the day noted in the schedule and you must indicate your preparedness through online and in-class participation. You must post meaningful, engaged discussion points and responses before every one of the Russian and Swedish students' classes throughout the semester.

Participation Quality In addition to your general participation grade, you will be specifically responsible for the quality of your participation within your groups of Russian, Swedish, and American students. You must bear your weight of responsibility for document development as well as group communication. You should be careful to produce as much evidence of your participation as possible during the semester. Keep in mind that virtual class participation is weighted as heavily as face-to-face class participation.

Collaboration Quality You must collaborate effectively and consistently with your Russian and Swedish counterparts. To make this possible, your communications must be frequent and timely and must be of linguistic tone and style that is appropriate for your audience.

Resumes You will create effective, clear resumes as a means to introduce yourselves to your Swedish and Russian colleagues. You should refer to our class discussions and the Icarus site at http://icarus.lcc.gatech.edu to prepare your assignments. Each individual will prepare his/her own resume. You will submit your resume in hard copy and in digital form.

Proposals You and your international groups will submit hard copy proposals to pursue your plans for working within a collaborative team of Swedish, Russian, and American students to develop an affective expression in response to the Southeast Asian tsunami tragedy. Your primary focus will be to consider these perceptions from cross-cultural and international perspectives, informed through your collaborative group work with your Russian and Swedish colleagues. By necessity, you will also consider issues in cross-cultural, digital communication.

A successful proposal will be analytical at its base, providing reasoning for all choices made in proposing the final product.

You will describe your plans for developing your final product. You will begin by describing the need for the artifact, then indicate how the proposed products will satisfy that need. Next, you will describe in detail, the portion of the products that each of your separate group members intend to create, then assure your readers that the plan for production is feasible. You will conclude with a summary of all these points to persuade readers that you will be able to complete the analysis and digital artifact within the constraints of available equipment, skills, and time. Your final product description must be extensive in detail and well-justified from a basis of valid research.

The proposal must explain and describe each student's individual tasks as part of the collaborative team, then must also explain each student's duties involved in integrating the team's work with that of other collaborative members. Your collaborative duties must be noted and agreed upon by all group members and evidenced in a signed document indicating your agreement to the terms of your participation. You must use memo format for the proposal document and submit it to me in hard copy format, and maintain digital copies for the Swedish, Russian, and American participants in your group.

Your proposal must include a clear, detailed schedule of deadlines tied to group members' project tasks and responsibilities.

You should very clearly delineate your group members' capabilities for the developing the end product that your propose and then create your proposal accordingly. An actual end-product, due at the end of the semester, will be the result of your proposal.

The proposal must include a well-developed bibliography, a list of applicable and useful sources to prepare your work in creating your final product. Your international group must also include a signed contract noting the duties of each participant and his/her acceptance of those responsibilities in preparing the work. Since your grades will be determined by noting your work in regard to your accepted duties, you should be careful to balance the work load equally among group members. Each student is responsible for a portion of each of the assignments. Students bearing notably less responsibility for project outcomes will receive less grade credit in proportion.

In addition to the signed contract noting each group member's accepted duties, upon final proposal submission, students may also include individual memos indicating issues affecting their individual project contributions.

Progress Reports You will submit individual progress reports that notate your assigned responsibilities for your collaborative projects, your assessment of how work is developing, what you have accomplished, and what you have yet to complete. Your report should indicate any problems you have encountered and how you have worked through them or intend to eliminate them, note any work that you have completed that goes beyond what you contracted to do, indicate any work that you failed to complete but that you were contracted to do, and assess your expectations for your work for the duration of the group project. You must submit the progress report in hard copy memo format.

Final Project Your final project will be an affective expression of your group's response to the Southeast Asian tsunami tragedy. The product could be a digital, hard copy, musical, literary, artistic, architectural or some other expression; your group will choose the form it will take. The product must appeal to a broad international, cross-cultural audience of users/viewers/listeners. It must be based on solid research of past expressive responses to global or national tragedy, cultural characteristics of target audiences, and national responses to tragedies among your various group members' cultures. The product must appropriately reflect your understanding of how your expressive response to the tsunami's devastation could be perceived by others and of what effect it might have on your audience. You must be able to justify your choices in project development.

Your group should carefully consider how your expression will be perceived by those directly affected by the tsunami and by those who respond as outsiders.

The product must be accompanied by project documentation that justifies any changes from what your proposal noted or limitations on the end result of your work; the documentation must explain any aspects of use, response, or development of the product that are different from the proposed product results or were not adequately developed in the proposal because they could not be foreseen.

The documentation should also indicate the actions completed by each of your group members and note the dates of completion. It should indicate any changes that you would like to make but are not able to complete as a result of time or other constraints.

You should also document any lessons learned from your intercultural/international collaboration that could benefit those who undertake similar collaborations in the future.

Note that you will receive no credit for completion of your work until it is submitted in the formats noted above. Documents submitted after the deadline will not receive full credit. Again, group members must submit signed contracts noting their agreed-upon distribution of collaborative work. Please submit individual memos to support your participation in project developments if you feel that the product and the final materials do not adequately reflect your work.