Course Description
Hacking for Oceans—Lean Design Methods, CSP 281A
One-quarter graduate-level class in which multidisciplinary student teams of four address problem or challenges provided by real-world sponsors or identified by student groups. Teams learn how to apply the Lean Launchpad and Lean Startup methodologies to discover and validate customer needs and to continually build prototypes to test whether they understood the problem and solution. Weekly assignments involve working outside of class on steps or skills in the design process and then sharing it for peer-review in class. Involves reading and a substantial assignment each week before the next week's session on that topic. Course is held concurrently with an undergraduate course.
All students, please complete the H4O Interest Form.
- UCSC graduate and undergraduate students: Permission numbers will be issued based on the interest form
- Non-UCSC undergraduates: After completing the interest form, click ENROLL above
- Non-UCSC graduate students: Click HERE to complete the Intercampus Exchange form. In addition to your signature, you will need to obtain the signature of your home department Graduate Advisor or Chair and the signature of your Graduate Division dean. Once your form has been signed by those individuals, please email the form to CSP@ucsc.edu for routing at UCSC.
- Questions: Email CSP@ucsc.edu.
Key Information
Spring Quarter 2023
Instruction start date: April 3, 2023
Instruction end date: June 10, 2023
Credit: 5 quarter units / 3.33 semester units credit
UC Santa Cruz, Physical & Biological Sciences
Course Credit:
Upon successful completion, all online courses offered through cross-enrollment provide UC unit credit. Some courses are approved for GE, major preparation and/or, major credit or can be used as a substitute for a course at your campus.If "unit credit" is listed by your campus, consult your department, academic adviser or Student Affairs division to inquire about the petition process for more than unit credit for the course.
UC Berkeley:
Unit Credit
UC Davis:
Unit Credit
UC Irvine:
Unit Credit
UC Los Angeles:
Unit Credit
UC Merced:
Unit Credit (see your Academic Advisor)
UC Riverside:
General Education: Elective units
UC San Diego:
Unit Credit
UC San Francisco:
Unit Credit
UC Santa Barbara:
Unit Credit
UC Santa Cruz:
Unit Credit
Section Meeting Times
(Seminar) Asynchronous Section - UC01Course Meeting Requirements
Students are required to actively participate in 3 hours/week of class meeting . Expect 9-12 hours of team/individual work outside of class for meetings with team mentors, conducting interviews, teamwork to synthesize weekly progress, preparing weekly class presentations and office hours meetings with teaching team members.
More About The Course
Do you have passion for tackling Ocean challenges and discovering how to innovate?
Fill out the course Interest Form at: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeouhbC0Rh2nGMe0HP-hsKGlKOF0falSkGM4wqe0Q7LLsQAcA/viewform
Goal : Hands-on experience in understanding and working as an interdisciplinary team (4-5 students) with sponsors/mentors to solve real world problems facing the oceans and to design and evaluate solutions to pressing challenges using technology, innovation, and policy design.
Anything your team develops in doing work for this course (software, hardware, ideas, etc.) is open source.You do not give up any IP rights of anything you bring to the class. Your software, technology, or hardware IP, if not shown or uploaded as part of presentations to the class, is not considered open-sourced.
Additional Course Information
Exam Info
In lieu of a final exam, graduate students submit a final culminating report.
Course Creator
Anne Kapuscinski
Core Faculty
Director and Core Faculty, Coastal Science and Policy Program
Professor, Environmental Studies
Anne R. Kapuscinski is an interdisciplinary scholar committed to finding scientifically and socially robust solutions to a major challenge: how to perpetuate healthy aquatic ecosystems while sustaining resource uses that support human wellbeing. Her past research examined impacts of dams, fish hatcheries, aquaculture and genetic engineering on fish conservation. Her current research aims to shift aquaculture, the world’s fastest growing food sector, towards sustainability. Her team uses marine microalgae to achieve fish-free feeds, thus decouple aquaculture from ocean-caught forage fish, reduce nutrient and carbon emissions and improve food security. She also pursues ecological aquaculture strategies to close water and nutrient loops and conserve biodiversity. Anne participates actively in the science-policy interface, presently as Chair of the Board of Directors of the Union of Concerned Scientists and member of the Ocean Protection Council Science Advisory Team, and has been a scientific advisor to the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture (under three administrations), U.S. Food and Drug Administration, World Health Organization and Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN, Global Environment Facility, European Union Food Safety Agency, state of Minnesota, and on four U.S. National Academy of Science committees. She is Editor-in-Chief of the Sustainability Transitions domain of the open-access journal, Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene. Her awards include a 2019 Ocean Award in Innovation, Pew Fellow in Marine Conservation, and Distinguished Service Award from the Society for Conservation Biology, among others. As Director of the Coastal Science and Policy Program, Anne guides and builds a diverse, inclusive community of students, faculty and partners to pursue scalable solutions to pressing coastal and ocean challenges.
Watch Anne describe her research here or read more about Anne and her research team at: https://kapsar.sites.ucsc.edu/.
Email: akapusci@ucsc.edu
Website: https://kapsar.sites.ucsc.edu
Core Faculty Director and Core Faculty, Coastal Science and Policy Program Professor, Environmental Studies Anne R. Kapuscinski is an interdisciplinary scholar committed to finding scientifically and socially robust solutions to a major challenge: how to perpetuate healthy aquatic ecosystems while sustaining resource uses that support human wellbeing. Her past research ...Core Faculty
Director and Core Faculty, Coastal Science and Policy Program
Professor, Environmental Studies
Anne R. Kapuscinski is an interdisciplinary scholar committed to finding scientifically and socially robust solutions to a major challenge: how to perpetuate healthy aquatic ecosystems while sustaining resource uses that support human wellbeing. Her past research examined impacts of dams, fish hatcheries, aquaculture and genetic engineering on fish conservation. Her current research aims to shift aquaculture, the world’s fastest growing food sector, towards sustainability. Her team uses marine microalgae to achieve fish-free feeds, thus decouple aquaculture from ocean-caught forage fish, reduce nutrient and carbon emissions and improve food security. She also pursues ecological aquaculture strategies to close water and nutrient loops and conserve biodiversity. Anne participates actively in the science-policy interface, presently as Chair of the Board of Directors of the Union of Concerned Scientists and member of the Ocean Protection Council Science Advisory Team, and has been a scientific advisor to the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture (under three administrations), U.S. Food and Drug Administration, World Health Organization and Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN, Global Environment Facility, European Union Food Safety Agency, state of Minnesota, and on four U.S. National Academy of Science committees. She is Editor-in-Chief of the Sustainability Transitions domain of the open-access journal, Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene. Her awards include a 2019 Ocean Award in Innovation, Pew Fellow in Marine Conservation, and Distinguished Service Award from the Society for Conservation Biology, among others. As Director of the Coastal Science and Policy Program, Anne guides and builds a diverse, inclusive community of students, faculty and partners to pursue scalable solutions to pressing coastal and ocean challenges.
Watch Anne describe her research here or read more about Anne and her research team at: https://kapsar.sites.ucsc.edu/.
Email: akapusci@ucsc.edu
Website: https://kapsar.sites.ucsc.edu
Instructor of Term
Anne Kapuscinski
akapusci@ucsc.edu
