My idea was very well received; Andrew told me that I might even be able to get an article in the college paper - this would be helpful in the marketting of my app, also. I have included 'Part One: Proposal' and my reading list below.
Part One: Proposal

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Reading List
- A Project Guide to UX by Russ Unger & Carolyn Chandler
- The Elements of User Experience: User-Centred Design for the Web by Jesse James Garrett
- Don’t Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability by Steve Krug
- Content Strategy for the Web by Kristina Halvorson
- Information Architecture for the World Wide Web: Designing Large-Scale Web Sites by Peter Morville and Louis Rosenfeld
- The Design of Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman
- Designing Web Usability by Jakob Nielson
- Modular Web Design: Creating Reusable Components for User Experience Design and Documentation by Nathan A. Curtis
- The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity by Alan Cooper
- Observing the User Experience: A Practitioner’s Guide to User Research by Mike Kuniavsky