One of the roles of scientist is to communicate ideas to other scientist. Discoveries that are not reported die with the discoverer. One of the methods for communicating in the scientific community is through posters. Scientists from all over the world attend conferences where hundreds or even thousands of posters are presented at each conference.
Poster sessions have the advantage of presenting a large number of topics in a single place.
People roam around and spend time reading those posters that are most interesting to them. We will conduct our own poster session but instead of presenting original research, our posters will address issues. The poster session will be during the last week of class. There Are several assignments due prior to the final poster. It must be controversial.