The collaborative project provides you with the opportunity to build a team and do something together that you couldn’t do alone, something that you see as significant and worth the time/effort. Each team member should have a substantive role to play that’s recognizable, significant, and includes comparable responsibilities. Think of these projects as your final projects, and give them the commensurate time, care, and energy that suggests. It is difficult to specify what these collaborative projects should/not be because so many different projects are possible and each team member will be doing something different. This is why it is strategic to confer with Bill at several points during the process to make sure that what you are doing is neither too much nor too little. Bill has a lot of experience with these kinds of projects and can be very helpful in keeping things reasonable, manageable, and humane for you and the team members. The non-negotiables here are:

Start with what you want to do, and then discuss the project with Bill to make it doable and manageable.

• There must be at least two people involved.
• There can be no more than four people on a team.
• The final project must be available for the class to see at our final exam period.
• The project should clearly demonstrate the necessity for the number of people involved.