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Notes of the society and technology interest group meeting of 2004-07-21...
Contents
Executive summary
- In order to get a course started, we need sustainable faculty buy-in.
- There are a lot of other courses offered by other depts. that touch in some way on technology and society.
- There are many models for how to start up such a course
- Action items:
- talk to our advisors as first step in measuring faculty enthusiasm
- gather more detailed list of possible topics and objectives
- contact people at other departments to gather information about existing courses
- talk with Caroline tomorrow
detailed notes follow.
What should we do?
- Foster communication about existing stuff (course offerings, talks, etc.) on social impacts of computing.
- Lecture series/reading group/lunch?
- Start up an interdisciplinary course:
- Q: run as one course with everything, or a series of courses "technology and X", for various X? Possibly:
- Education
- Disabilities
- Law and politics
- Technology and business (already exists)
- Q: audiences?
- Tap mentioned that it's often hard to get people to perceive taking a course or a lecture series as in their interest --- you need to position it so that people feel it credibly advances their career/education/etc. This is one reason that, for example, CSE majors don't take many i-school courses, and that attendance was sparse at a lecture series that Tap attended.
- Models for this:
- Kate's undergrad (Butler) had undergrad CS ethics course, once a week meeting, with moderator
- Charlie's undergrad (Rice) had undergrad course run by anthropology (!) Syllabus is available online.
- What is the need for this course?
- Kate: people in education have spoken of wanting more knowledge re: technology issues
- Q: run as one course with everything, or a series of courses "technology and X", for various X? Possibly:
Forms this course could take
Option 1: use course as cross-listing alias for plethora of existing courses, in other depts. (Note, Pim Lustig is the person to see about course listing administration.)
Option 2: Start with a cross-dept. 590
Option 3: something bigger...
These options are non-exclusive.
Major challenge to larger-scale course: making teaching load sustainable. Need more than one prof. to continue to teach it.
Existing courses
In CSE
- CSE 100: basic fluency; lectures
- CSE 490c, a.k.a. CSE 303: roughly 1/3 of lectures spent on social issues
- CSE 490xx: PMP public policy course (taught by Ed this fall)
- CSE 500: computing and society, not recently taught
Elsewhere
List of UW courses on society and technology
Existing undergrad interest groups?
- Vibha started course to encourage women to get interested in computer science; not much explicit discussion of social impacts, but...?
ACM recommendations for teaching "ethics" in curriculum
Various ways:
- Dedicated course on ethics
- Explicit ethics modules in upper-level course
- Explicit ethics module in intro course
Action items
- Keunwoo: get in touch with depts., profs for other technology and society courses, get in touch with i-school people
- Kate: talk to education school people
Notes for Caroline
- There's a lot of "non-traditional" computer science (e.g., HCI, Tap's work) that would be nice to bring to the attention of non-CS people (or CS people)