Course Schedule
Schedule may change due to unforeseen events.
- Week 1
- Optimistic: Intro, Syllabus, House Rules, Course Expectations
- Young, Gifted, and Black: Identity, Race, Ethnicity
- Week 2
- Brown Skin Girl: Gender, Sexuality
- Four Women/Whitey On The Moon: Intersectionality, Class
- Week 3
- Everybody Loves The Sunshine: Ability
- Land of the Free: White Privilege, White Supremacy, Racism
- Week 4
- Rollcall For Those Absent: Anti-XX Racism, Xenophobia
- U.N.I.T.Y.: Sexism, Misogyny, Misogynoir
- Week 5
- That's the Way of the World: Homophobia, Transphobia
- Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler): Classism, Ableism
- Week 6
- I Can't Breathe: The Movements (Part I): The Movements (Part 1): Suffrage, Civil Rights, Feminist, MeToo, Black Lives Matter
- Fight the Power: The Movements (Part II): The Movements (Part 2): Stonewall, United Farm Workers, Immigrant Rights, Disability Rights
- Week 7
- NO CLASS: Fall Break
- Don't Touch My Hair: Policy-13th Amendment, 19th Amendment, 15th Amendment (Voting Rights Act), American Disabilities Act, Crown Act
- Week 8
- This Is America: What Does This Have to Do with Computing? Digital Divide, Cultural Competence
- Talkin Bout a Revolution: What is Bias? Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
- Week 9
- Land of the Free: Facial Recognition Software
- 10/21: NO CLASS
- Week 10
- Lockdown: Surveillance Technology
- Joanne Little: Predictive Policing, Recidivism/Bail Software
- Week 11
- Living For The City: Search Algorithms/ChatBots, Job/FinTech Applications
- Sweeter: Healthcare Software
- Week 12
- Hella Black: Voice Recognition Technology
- We Are One: Tech Impacting People with Disabilities
- Week 13
- Wake Up Everybody: Tech Impacting LGBTQ+ Communities
- Nina: The Movements
- Week 14
- Get Up, Stand Up: Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAT)/Policy
- 11/25: NO CLASS
- Week 15
- The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: Presentations
- Umi Says: Presentations, Course Wrap-Up