My syllabi are on Canvas (ie. teaching software).
So here are some PDF captures from my recent courses. Feel free to reach out for the details.
Introduction to Science, Technology, and Society Studies (STSS)
A 2-credit (small) doctoral level introduction to STS.
It’s more of a tasting menu than bootcampy or comprehensive…
A 5-credit required bootcamp course on social theory for HCDE doctoral students.
This is a curious course to teach, since HCDE does not have a ‘theory cannon,’ per se. We draw from many different intellectual traditions.
So, instead of teaching some cannon I teach a theory skillset….
The key skill to understand theory is to approach it as a long tradition, or perhaps as a dialogue, one with many internal and external debates, changing over time but still demonstrating some coherence across the tradition. What theory is not is a snapshot, or anything like tidy bullet points.
I teach this class as a grounded theory course, which is a structured sociological approach to empirically driven theory development. But the course is specifically tailored for undergraduate students in HCDE who have a research orientation.
Infrastructure Studies: Knowledge, Distribution and Power
An old syllabus (2010) for Infrastructure Studies. It’s a bit outdated, but, let’s also say it’s brimming with must-read classics.
“There is a great deal of ‘political heat’ hidden within the infrastructures that support our daily activity, e.g., where does our water supply come from? Where does our garbage go? And what are our search engines leaving out? …”