Prof. McNamee offered CS 190 two terms. Beginning with Spring 1995, every quarter it has been taught by Prof. Klinger. In the seventeen past offerings, a variety of practices have been put into place to help those willing to change to work to ameliorate some of their communication and cooperation deficiencies. For most of the participants the Design Project course concerns new methods. The primary aspect of novelty is via review .
Students comment on and contribute to each other's development via written and oral methods.
Regular reading, writing, speaking, dialogues, and technical creativity are elements of the course. Those who do these things with effort and purpose benefit personally and have their activities validated by the course grade. Although people work cooperatively, each participant gets an individual grade. Slightly more than half the course grade comes from the final joint project report. Student ratings and confidential letters supply a significant part of the final grade.