The course as a whole collaboratively contributes to a multi-layer Google Map. Each iteration of the course focuses on 2 layers. The first layer, which students work on individually, maps architecture from the textbook with expanded information (videos, online resources, 3D models, etc.) added to the pin. The second layer, which students work on in groups, adds pins and expanded information to one of the following existing additional layers: Women Modernists, Modernists of Color, or Endangered Modernism (things not covered by the textbook, requiring additional library-resourced research).

In lieu of a final exam, students give 10-minute group presentations of some of the key discoveries they made in researching their modernist works. The students work directly in Google My Maps but also deliver their assignments in the form of the data entered into excel spreadsheets, which I then aggregate to demonstrate examples of network analysis and timelines as other ways to visualize and analyze the information.