INSTRUCTOR: These four students are working on a proposal to irrigate a third-world country. This clip shows them brainstorming and selecting tasks.

JAMAAL: Well, we can't do countries like South Africa or Kenya, because they're pretty well developed.

DON: Mhm.

TONYA: What about Ethiopia?

JIM: Actually, that doesn't mean anything. I mean, they can still be well-developed and still have a need for irrigation. I mean, as long as we find a need, we're a company doing it for profit.

JAMAAL: We need a place somewhere in the middle in a drought.

JIM: Somalia's dry. Possibly Ethiopia.

DON: Ethiopia, Eritrea, Rwanda, there's some strife there.

JIM: I'd say Ethiopia.

JAMAAL: OK.

JIM: I mean, there hasn't been that much water.

JAMAAL: Yeah.

JIM: It isn't a desolate area.

JAMAAL: I mean, trouble's going to be everywhere. We just need a country we can handle.

TONYA: I just went there with my church.

DON: Not arid?

TONYA: Mm-mm.

DON: So it's not all that hot there?

TONYA: Mm-mm. Green.

DON: Ah, so we would need spray there. But we're not sure? OK, so we're going to need to do some research. OK.

JIM: Well, since it is like a scenario and we're not actually doing it--

TONYA: Or maybe it's not a company, but we're with the Red Cross, doing it for free. Or with the UN.

JAMAAL: Yeah, the UN. Irrigation for humanity.

[LAUGHTER]

JIM: Yeah, it could be like the UN, like help this new country or whatever.

DON: The UN.

JIM: Yeah, I like that. I like that a lot, actually. That sounds good.

DON: So then the UN's paying for this.

JIM: Yeah. I like that a lot.

JAMAAL: We need to section things off.

TONYA: I can do economics, workforce, language, and threats.

JIM: All right. I was looking at the need, like doing all the background research on it.

TONYA: Yeah. That's a pretty big one.

JIM: Yeah.

TONYA: And you're doing systems?

DON: I'm doing the systems.

JAMAAL: Looks like you guys took everything.

TONYA: You can do transportation, delivery system.

JAMAAL: Yeah, I could look into that.

JIM: I don't know if we really need to do that transportation. That's more of a specific detail.

JAMAAL: I have a proposal.

JIM: Big boss man.

JAMAAL: Here's my proposal. You all pretend to be engineers, and then I'm the manager who doesn't know anything about engineering, but then I boss you all around.

[LAUGHTER]

TONYA: No, I'm the one that doesn't know anything.

JIM: Yeah, you're the social scientist.

TONYA: Yeah. I'm the woman.

JAMAAL: And I just tell you about the deadlines.

[LAUGHTER]