{"id":4420,"date":"2023-12-11T10:58:43","date_gmt":"2023-12-11T15:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/honors\/?p=4420"},"modified":"2025-06-27T15:27:04","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T19:27:04","slug":"hpr-124-outcomes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/honors\/hpr-124-outcomes\/","title":{"rendered":"New Honors Course Demonstrates Design Thinking and Leads Students to Propose Creative Solutions to Global Challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"cl-wrapper cl-hero-wrapper\"><div class=\"cl-hero  \"><div class=\"cl-hero-proper\"><div class=\"overlay\"><\/div><div class=\"still\" style=\"background-image:url(https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/honors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1731\/north-woods-hpr-124.jpg);\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"cl-hero-caption-wrapper\"><div class=\"cl-hero-caption\">Students are photographed exploring the North Woods as part of their course work in HPR 124: Welcome to Planet Honors.<\/div><div class=\"cl-hero-credit\">Nora Lewis<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n<div class=\"type-intro\">\n<p>HPR 124: Welcome to Planet Honors is a new course being offered to Honors students with a goal of acclimating them to life at URI as an Honors Student, and helping bring their awareness to local manifestations of global issues here on campus.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>As the home of the changemakers, Honors courses focus on providing students with hands-on learning opportunities that will teach them how to think critically about issues and equip them with the tools to take appropriate actions.<\/p>\n<p>Under the instruction of Dr. Cynthia Taylor, students in <a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/honors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1731\/HPR-124-Graphic-Syllabus.pdf\">HPR 124: Welcome to Planet Honors<\/a> were guided through 5 units: <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Community Immersion, Design Thinking, Food Waste &amp; Recovery, North Woods Conservation, and Microplastics in the Narragansett Bay. In each unit, the students completed projects that demonstrated their understanding of core concepts and generated a variety of proposals for addressing different aspects of the problems. <\/span>Below are samples of their work throughout this past semester.<\/p>\n<h2>Highlights for Unit 3: Food &amp; Waste Recovery<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In this project unit, students collaboratively mapped the problem of food waste and\/or insecurity on campus, identified possible leverage points to intervene, engaged in stakeholder analysis, brainstormed solutions and created an infographic summarizing the problem and ideas on how to address the problem.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<a class=\"cl-button  \" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/honors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1731\/HPR124_unit3_foodwaste_infographics.pdf\" title=\"\">View Selection of Infographics<\/a>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Highlights for Unit 4: North Woods<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In this project unit, students collaboratively created&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">a proposal to submit to the DWELL lab\u2019s 2023 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Call for Proposals.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<a class=\"cl-button  \" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/honors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1731\/HPR124_NorthWoods.pdf\" title=\"\">View Sampling of Proposals<\/a>\n<h2>&nbsp;<\/h2>\n<h2>Highlights for Unit 5: Microplastics in the Narragansett Bay<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Students engaged in a 5-day design sprint challenge to address the problem\/generate solutions through product redesign, the creation of a zero waste business model, or creative data visualization. Design teams pitched their idea to the class in a 5 minute presentation.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<a class=\"cl-button  \" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/honors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1731\/HPR124_Unit5_Plastics.pdf\" title=\"\">View Presentations<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HPR 124: Welcome to Planet Honors is a new course being offered to Honors students with a goal of acclimating them to life at URI as an Honors Student, and helping bring their awareness to local manifestations of global issues here on campus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1667,"featured_media":4992,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/honors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/honors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/honors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/honors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1667"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/honors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4420"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/honors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4440,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/honors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4420\/revisions\/4440"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/honors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/honors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/honors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/honors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}