Schedule
Course Schedule
| # | Date | Week | Studio | Topic | Slides | Notebook | Milestone | Required reading |
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| 1 | Mon Aug 24 | Week 1 | Studio 1: Begin with your curiosity | Orientation: what a researcher is for, and the one rule this course runs on (Lecture 1/2) | Deck |  |
M1 | Assigned today, read for the next session: EDR|AI Ch. 1 Recommended companion: RDSS ch. 4. |
| 2 | Wed Aug 26 | Week 1 | Studio 1 | From curiosity to a research problem: the four stops, and the tool that quietly changes your question (Lecture 2/2) | Deck | |
M1 | Required before today (It is your turn due tonight): EDR|AI Ch. 1 Recommended companion: RDSS ch. 4. |
| 3 | Fri Aug 28 | Week 1 | Studio 1 | Studio Friday · Milestone 1: your curiosity, committed (M1 due Sunday) | Deck | |
M1 | Still in play this week: Ch. 1 (linked above) |
| 4 | Mon Aug 31 | Week 2 | Studio 2: Set your rules, shape your question | The rules you set before you need them: your arm, your triage, your checklist, your name (Lecture 1/2) | Deck | |
M2 | Required before today (It is your turn due tonight): EDR|AI Ch. 2 · EDR|AI Ch. 3 · EDR|AI Ch. 4 · EDR|AI Ch. 5 Recommended companion: RDSS ch. 2. |
| 5 | Wed Sep 2 | Week 2 | Studio 2 | The question you declare: kind, reach, and the words your name signs (Lecture 2/2) | Deck | |
M2 | Required before today (It is your turn due tonight): EDR|AI Ch. 6 · EDR|AI Ch. 7 Recommended companion: RDSS ch. 7. |
| 6 | Fri Sep 4 | Week 2 | Studio 2 | Studio Friday · Milestone 2: your rules and your question (M2 due Monday, Labor Day) | Deck | |
M2 | Still in play this week: Ch. 2 · Ch. 3 · Ch. 4 · Ch. 5 · Ch. 6 · Ch. 7 (linked above) |
| – | Mon Sep 7 | Week 3 | Studio 3 | No class · Labor Day | ||||
| 7 | Wed Sep 9 | Week 3 | Studio 3: Ground it in verified evidence | A lead is not a source: retrieve it, read it, and find out what it actually supports (Lecture 1/1) | Deck | |
M3 | Required before today (It is your turn due tonight): EDR|AI Ch. 8 · EDR|AI Ch. 9 Recommended companion: RDSS ch. 4. |
| 8 | Fri Sep 11 | Week 3 | Studio 3 | Studio Friday · Milestone 3: your evidence base (M3 due Sunday) | Deck | |
M3 | Still in play this week: Ch. 8 · Ch. 9 (linked above) |
| 9 | Mon Sep 14 | Week 4 | Studio 4: Declare and diagnose provisionally | The four parts of a design, and the pile of answers behind every number (Lecture 1/2) | Deck | |
M4 ✚ | Required before today (It is your turn due tonight): EDR|AI Ch. 10 · EDR|AI Ch. 11 Recommended companion: RDSS ch. 2, ch. 5. |
| 10 | Wed Sep 16 | Week 4 | Studio 4 | Diagnose it before it costs you anything, then find out whether you are allowed to run it (Lecture 2/2) | Deck | |
M4 ✚ | Required before today (It is your turn due tonight): EDR|AI Ch. 12 · EDR|AI Ch. 13 Recommended companion: RDSS ch. 10, ch. 11. |
| 11 | Fri Sep 18 | Week 4 | Studio 4 | Studio Friday · Milestone 4: your research contract, v0 (M4 due Sunday) | Deck | |
M4 ✚ | Still in play this week: Ch. 10 · Ch. 11 · Ch. 12 · Ch. 13 (linked above) |
| 12 | Mon Sep 21 | Week 5 | Studio 5: Develop the pathway | The route hub: three signals, five routes, and the licence each one buys (Lecture 1/2) | Deck | |
M5 | Required, your declared route (It is your turn due tonight): EDR|AI Ch. 14 · EDR|AI Ch. 15 · EDR|AI Ch. 16 · EDR|AI Ch. 17 · EDR|AI Ch. 18 Only if your design has stages (if it binds, It is your turn due tonight): EDR|AI Ch. 19 Recommended companion: RDSS ch. 15–18. |
| 13 | Wed Sep 23 | Week 5 | Studio 5 | The route jigsaw: advocate a road that is not yours, then rule out your mandated contrast (Lecture 2/2) | Deck | |
M5 | Required, your assigned contrast route (read it; its It is your turn section is not collected): EDR|AI Ch. 14 · EDR|AI Ch. 15 · EDR|AI Ch. 16 · EDR|AI Ch. 17 · EDR|AI Ch. 18 Still in play this week: Ch. 19 (linked above) Recommended companion: RDSS ch. 15–18. |
| 14 | Fri Sep 25 | Week 5 | Studio 5 | Studio Friday · M5: your pathway, declared (Research Contract v1) | Deck | |
M5 M6 |
Still in play this week: Ch. 14 · Ch. 15 · Ch. 16 · Ch. 17 · Ch. 18 · Ch. 19 (linked above) |
| 15 | Mon Sep 28 | Week 6 | Studio 6: Govern data and measurement | How data reach you: acquisition routes, provenance, and the permission recheck (Lecture 1/2) | Deck | |
M6 | Required before today (It is your turn due tonight): EDR|AI Ch. 20 Recommended companion: RDSS ch. 15–18. |
| 16 | Wed Sep 30 | Week 6 | Studio 6 | Do your measures measure your concepts? Concept, construct, indicator: reliability on items, validity as use (Lecture 2/2) | Deck | |
M6 | Required before today (It is your turn due tonight): EDR|AI Ch. 21 Recommended companion: RDSS ch. 15–18. |
| 17 | Fri Oct 2 | Week 6 | Studio 6 | Studio Friday · M6: your data and measurement, governed | Deck | |
M6 M7 ✚ |
Still in play this week: Ch. 20 · Ch. 21 (linked above) |
| 18 | Mon Oct 5 | Week 7 | Studio 7: Produce a reproducible first analysis | AI as programmer: does the code run YOUR analysis? (Lecture 1/2) | Deck | |
M7 ✚ | Required before today (It is your turn due tonight): EDR|AI Ch. 22 Recommended companion: RDSS ch. 5. |
| 19 | Wed Oct 7 | Week 7 | Studio 7 | AI as analytical assistant: the number, its uncertainty, and the record that proves it (Lecture 2/2) | Deck | |
M7 ✚ | Required before today (It is your turn due tonight): EDR|AI Ch. 23 Still in play this week: Ch. 22 (linked above) |
| 20 | Fri Oct 9 | Week 7 | Studio 7 | Studio Friday · M7: your first reproducible analysis and the URC abstract gate | Deck | |
M7 ✚ M8 ✚ |
Still in play this week: Ch. 22 · Ch. 23 (linked above) |
| – | Mon Oct 12 | Week 8 | Studio 8 | No class · October Break (fall break) | ||||
| 21 | Wed Oct 14 | Week 8 | Studio 8: Stress-test and adjudicate | Stress-test and adjudicate: four moves that decide whether your number survives (Lecture 1/1) | Deck | |
M8 ✚ | Required before today (It is your turn due tonight): EDR|AI Ch. 24 · EDR|AI Ch. 25 · EDR|AI Ch. 26 · EDR|AI Ch. 27 Recommended companion: RDSS ch. 10. |
| 22 | Fri Oct 16 | Week 8 | Studio 8 | Studio Friday · M8: your robustness audit | Deck | |
M8 ✚ M9 |
Still in play this week: Ch. 24 · Ch. 25 · Ch. 26 · Ch. 27 (linked above) |
| 23 | Mon Oct 19 | Week 9 | Studio 9: Write, bound, and disclose | Write and bound I: from a printed result to the claim your evidence can carry; the claim-license matrix and the claim-evidence table (Lecture 1/2) | Deck | |
M9 | Required before today (It is your turn due tonight): EDR|AI Ch. 28 · EDR|AI Ch. 29 Recommended companion: RDSS ch. 7. |
| 24 | Wed Oct 21 | Week 9 | Studio 9 | Write and bound II: the disclosure your ledger writes, the note spine, and the scored audit of a note that leans on a source nobody retrieved (Lecture 2/2) | Deck | |
M9 | Required before today (It is your turn due tonight): EDR|AI Ch. 30 · EDR|AI Ch. 31 |
| 25 | Fri Oct 23 | Week 9 | Studio 9 | Studio Friday · M9, due Sunday: your bounded claims, the trace-or-cut drill, and the note red-team | Deck | |
M9 M10 |
Still in play this week: Ch. 28 · Ch. 29 · Ch. 30 · Ch. 31 (linked above) |
| 26 | Mon Oct 26 | Week 10 | Studio 10: Prepare to publish or present | Adapt and audit I: the venue contract, the artifact that satisfies it, and the audit that catches a figure changing the finding (Lecture 1/2) | Deck | |
M10 | Required before today (It is your turn due tonight): EDR|AI Ch. 32 · EDR|AI Ch. 33 |
| 27 | Wed Oct 28 | Week 10 | Studio 10 | Adapt and defend II: compress without inflating, then make the defend-or-concede call (Lecture 2/2) | Deck | |
M10 | Required before today (It is your turn due tonight): EDR|AI Ch. 34 · EDR|AI Ch. 35 |
| 28 | Fri Oct 30 | Week 10 | Studio 10 | Studio Friday · M10, due Sunday: the venue contract and one artifact that satisfies it (a version, not the lock) | Deck | |
M10 M13 ✚ |
Still in play this week: Ch. 32 · Ch. 33 · Ch. 34 · Ch. 35 (linked above) |
| 29 | Mon Nov 2 | Week 11 | Conference block: poster production and peer review | Poster production lab: the compass positions, and the number that has to trace (Lecture 1/2) | |
M11 | Revisit: EDR|AI Ch. 32 Recommended companion: RDSS ch. 23. |
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| 30 | Wed Nov 4 | Week 11 | Conference block | The draft on the wall: structured review across every active project (Lecture 2/2) | |
M11 M12 ✚ |
Revisit: EDR|AI Ch. 33 Recommended companion: RDSS ch. 23. |
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| 31 | Fri Nov 6 | Week 11 | Conference block | Studio Friday · the revision block: repair what the reviewers found, and take the file to the edge of the lock | |
M12 ✚ M13 ✚ |
Revisit: Ch. 33 (linked above) | |
| 32 | Mon Nov 9 | Week 12 | Conference block: presentation preparation | Three lengths of the same truth: the thirty-second, the ninety-second, and the two-minute pitch (Lecture 1/2) | |
M14 ✚ | Revisit: EDR|AI Ch. 34 Recommended companion: RDSS ch. 23. |
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| 33 | Wed Nov 11 | Week 12 | Conference block | Questions you can predict, and the answer that concedes the smaller true claim (Lecture 2/2) | |
M14 ✚ | Revisit: EDR|AI Ch. 35 Recommended companion: RDSS ch. 23. |
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| 34 | Fri Nov 13 | Week 12 | Conference block | Studio Friday · the printed poster arrives: rehearse on the real thing and go public, M14 due Sunday | |
M14 ✚ | Revisit: Ch. 34 · Ch. 35 (linked above) | |
| 35 | Mon Nov 16 | Week 13 | Conference block: the public test (dress rehearsal and the Expo) | Dress rehearsal: the questions you can predict, and the numbers that moved since you locked (Lecture 1/1) | |
M15 ✚ | Revisit: EDR|AI Ch. 32 · EDR|AI Ch. 33 · EDR|AI Ch. 34 · EDR|AI Ch. 35 | |
| – | Tue Nov 17 | Week 13 | Conference block: the public test (dress rehearsal and the Expo) | 🎓 Purdue Fall Undergraduate Research Expo · REQUIRED poster presentation (graded in Final Project) | M15 reflection evidence · Final Project Poster Presentation at the Purdue Undergraduate Research Conference | No new chapter. You present the artifact Studio 10 built. | ||
| – | Wed Nov 18 | Week 13 | Conference block | No class · the day after the Expo, to rest and catch up | ||||
| 36 | Fri Nov 20 | Week 13 | Conference block | Audience-data capture: the coded tally of what the room actually asked | |
M15 ✚ | Revisit: Ch. 33 · Ch. 35 (linked above) | |
| 37 | Mon Nov 23 | Week 14 | Conference block: the asynchronous reflection module | Adjudicate the public test: what changes the claim, and what only changes its defence | |
M15 ✚ | Revisit: EDR|AI Ch. 33 · EDR|AI Ch. 35 | |
| – | Wed Nov 25 | Week 14 | Conference block | No class · Thanksgiving Break | ||||
| – | Fri Nov 27 | Week 14 | Conference block | No class · Thanksgiving Break | ||||
| 38 | Mon Nov 30 | Week 15 | Studio 11: Reproduce and package | The cold run: does your number come back without you in the room? (Lecture 1/2) | Deck | |
M16 + Book Milestone 9 | Required before today (It is your turn due tonight): EDR|AI Ch. 36 Assigned today, read for the next session: EDR|AI Ch. 37 |
| 39 | Wed Dec 2 | Week 15 | Studio 11 | Package it for a stranger, then hand it to one: the capsule, its five sins, and the live cold run (Lecture 2/2) | Deck | |
M16 + Book Milestone 9 | Required before today (It is your turn due tonight): EDR|AI Ch. 37 |
| 40 | Fri Dec 4 | Week 15 | Studio 11 | Studio Friday · the repair block: your package against a stranger’s run, and the note the Expo rewrote, M16 due Sunday | Deck | |
M16 + Book Milestone 9 | Still in play this week: Ch. 36 · Ch. 37 (linked above) Revisit: EDR|AI Ch. 31 |
| 41 | Mon Dec 7 | Week 16 | Studio 12: Special topic: agentic AI, release, and the next cycle | Direct the closing review: wire the reviewer roles, then price their agreement (Lecture 1/2) | Deck | |
No milestone | Required before today (It is your turn due tonight): EDR|AI Ch. 38 · EDR|AI Ch. 39 Recommended companion: RDSS ch. 24. |
| 42 | Wed Dec 9 | Week 16 | Studio 12 | Audit the release before you release: the stale-run test and the seven-row audit (Lecture 2/2) | Deck | |
No milestone | Required before today (It is your turn due tonight): EDR|AI Ch. 40 Still in play this week: Ch. 38 · Ch. 39 (linked above) Recommended companion: RDSS ch. 24. |
| 43 | Fri Dec 11 | Week 16 | Studio 12 | Course reflection: scientific discovery and AI in research | Deck | |
No milestone | Still in play this week: Ch. 40 (linked above) |
Slides column. Each Deck is that Studio’s lecture deck, built from the Studio’s own EDR|AI chapters, so it always says what the book says. Weeks 11 to 14 are the conference block and carry no Studio, so those rows carry no deck.
Notebook column. Every notebook loads the same course dataset bundle: data.zip. Download it once.
Milestone column. Every milestone links to the Book Milestone it presents in EDR|AI. A ✚ means that this course requests something in addition to the book milestone.
Core Course References
- Blair, G., Coppock, A., & Humphreys, M. (2023). Research Design in the Social Sciences: Declaration, Diagnosis, and Redesign. Princeton University Press. Read free online: book.declaredesign.org.