F2023: Assignments & Readings Schedule
Course Week: Date – Lecture
- Lab (Thursdays): Designated activity or assignment, location as noted.
- Assignments: are listed for the week they are assigned, and due the following week
- Reading: Same as above (i.e. week 1’s readings should be read before week 2's class)
- Note: Readings are linked on a rolling basis; please ask if you need them in advance
W1: 8/22 – Introductions to the Class & Instructors
Reading:
- Preface (IX-XII) and pages 281 - 314 only: Roger Geiger, The History of American Higher Education: Learning and Culture from the Founding to World War II (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015)
- Pages 73 - 76 only: "Congressional Record: University of Illinois Centennial," in Report of the Centennial Year of the University of Illinois, February 28, 1967 to March 11, 1968.
- Paul Schroeder, "Why?", The Daily Illini (March 15, 1968)
- Pages 377-382 only: Star, Susan Leigh. The Ethnography of Infrastructure, American Behavioral Scientist 1999 43: 377.
W1: Assignments (Due 8/28): Documenting Campus Spots Report & Reading Response
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W2: 8/29 – Innovating Landgrant
Reading:
- Pages 50 - 59: Leslie J. Reagan,“Timothy Nugent: ‘Wheelchair Students’ and the Creation of the Most Accessible Campus in the World,” in The University of Illinois: Engine of Innovation, edited by Frederick E. Hoxie
- Pages 165 - 187: Steven E. Brown, "Breaking Barriers: The Pioneering Disability Students Services Program at the University of Illinois: 1948-1960," in The History of Discrimination in US Education, edited by Eileen H. Tamura (New York: Palgrave McMillian, 2008)
- Skim this briefly (spend 20 minutes): Expanding Horizons: History of DRES, 1998
In Class Resources:
- Scalar Registration key:
please use the key DYgRHpqFuRaQeUcg
W2: Assignments (Due 9/4): Alice Campbell Hall Report & Reading Response
W3: 9/5 – Innovating Accessibility: Disability Resources and Educational Services (DRES)
Reading:
- Chapter 3: Joy Ann Williamson-Lott, Black Power on Campus: The University of Illinois, 1965-75. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2013
- Pages 77 - 84: Joy Ann Williamson-Lott, “Clarence Shelley: The Campaign to Diversify the University” in The University of Illinois: Engine of Innovation, edited by Frederick E. Hoxie
- Pages 219 - 223: Frederick E. Hoxie and Michael Hughes, “Nevada Street: A Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity,” in The University of Illinois: Engine of Innovation, edited by Frederick E. Hoxie
W3: Assignments (Due 9/11): Reading Response and Documenting DRES
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W4: 9/12 – Archive & Research Methods
Reading:
- Pages 32 - 81: Michael Metz, Radicals in the Heartland: The 1960s Student Protest Movement at the University of Illinois, U. of Illinois Press, 2019. (also skim pages 19-21, 231-240)
W4: Assignments (Due 9/18): Reading Response and University Archive Visit Report
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W5: 9/19 – Social Reform, Accessibility, Safety, Inclusion: Project 500 & Nevada Street
Reading:
- Ned Prutzer, The Biological Computer Laboratory
- Jamie Hutchinson, "Nerve center of the cybernetic world: Heinz von Foerster and the Biological Computer Laboratory.”
- Bethany Anderson, "Heinz von Foerster and The Biological Computer Laboratory: A Cybernetics Odyssey," (https://archives.library.illinois.edu/blog/heinz-von-foerster-and-thebcl/) University of Illinois Archives blog
W5: Assignments (Due 9/25): Reading Response and Documenting UIUC Cultural Centers
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W6: 9/26 – Social Reform (cont)
Reading:
- To the University with Love: An Educational Reform Manifesto (University of Illinois, 1968)
- Proposal to Encourage Undergraduate Education Development at UIUC (1972)
- Unit One/Allen Hall History (1994) (pay particular attention to the "A Historical Survey-1971-1985" section, skim the rest, and ignore embedded links at end)
The Bronze (#8), Teal (#12), Raven, and 22 buses stop near the SLCA. (You can also easily walk to the SLCA from FAR/PAR). You can use this Trip Planner to arrange to get there by noon. Google map overview here. If it were us, we would take the Bronze East bus (#8 that leaves the Illini Union (Green Street, South Side Shelter) at 11:34 am and arrives at Orchard Downs North Shelter West at 11:44 am. If you have trouble finding the Archive Research Center/Student Life and Culture Archives, please call or text Karen at 217-898-8787.
W6: Assignments (Due 10/2): Reading Response and Preliminary Proposal Worksheet
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W7: 10/3 – Living Learning Communities and Movements for Educational Reform
Reading:
- Bruce MacFarlane. Researching with Integrity: The Ethics of Academic Enquiry. 2009. (Chapter 1: The Legacy of Nuremberg)
- Robinson Meyer. Everything We Know About Facebook's Secret Mood-Manipulation Experiment. in The Atlantic.
- Register at the Training Login and choose the University Users log-in link. After you have logged in, click on "Training Library" in the lefthand sidebar, then search for the "CORE IRB Training" module. There are 5 required modules which should take you no more than an hour (and probably less) to complete.
W7: Assignments (Due 10/9): Reading Response and Secondary Source Worksheet
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W8: 10/10 – Historicizing Research Ethics; Consent Overview
Reading:
- Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein. Data Feminism, Chapter 2: Collect, Analyze, Imagine, Teach (pages 1-12)
- Jeffrey Heer, Michael Bostock, and Vadim Ogievetsky, A Tour through the Visualization Zoo (click on the visualizations and explore them interactively)
- Skim: https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/ and https://flowingdata.com (30 minutes)
W8: 10/12 People & Data: Surveys and Data Bias (in-class); Survey Outreach Plan
W8: Assignments (Due 10/16): Reading Response and Survey Outreach Worksheet
W9: 10/17 – Survey Refinement
Reading:
- Michael Metz, Radicals in the Heartland: The 1960s Student Protest Movement at the University of Illinois, U. of Illinois Press, 2019. (Read the chapters: "Women Rising," 83-92; "1968: The Wildest Year," 136-142; "Spring ’69: Heating Up," 173-180; and "Spring '70; The Final Semester," 191-193).
- (Skim) Technograph: Student Engineering Magazine at Illinois, February 1970.
- We have visitors in class next week. Their bios are here.
W9: 10/19 Thursday Lab -- Finish Survey Refinement; Emails for Outreach; 31 Gregory Hall.
- Here's the Survey Outreach Template we'll use.
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W10: 10/24 – Student Movements -- Alumni Visit
Reading:
- Fernanda ViƩgas, Martin Wattenberg "Design and Redesign"
Josh Cottrell-Schloemer, "Excel is your most overlooked design tool"
Explore the visualizations on this site: The Atlas Of Redistricting
Explore the visualizations on this site: Who Gets to Breathe Clean Air in New Delhi?" - NEW: Audio recording from Alumni Conversation in Class, 10/24
- Here's the new Survey Outreach Reminder Email Template
- Here's the Interview Outreach Template and Sample Interview Questions.
- Here's the Interview Consent Form and the Interview Consent Form Tip Sheet.
- Here's a Guide for how to Record/Transcribe Video in Zoom.
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W11: 10/31 – Excel Workshop
Reading:
Spend 30 minutes skimming: Brian Dear, PLATO History Blog
- Don Bitzer, "Use of CBE for the Handicapped," American Annals of the Deaf 124.5 (1979)
- Pages 149-162: Valerie Lamont, “New Directions for the Teaching Computer: Citizen Participation in Community Planning,”Technological Forecasting and Social Change5 (1973)
- Pages 17-20: Larry Weber, "Blind Student Power," Technograph (October 1968)
W11: 11/2 Thursday Lab -- -- (Group) Visit to the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), 1205 W Clark St, Urbana, IL 61801. Advanced Visualization Lab, Room 1005. Here's a map, if you need help finding the building.
W11: Assignments (Due 11/6): Reading Response and Interviews
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W12: 11/7 – Plato
Reading:
- Chapters 3 - 7, Yang, Andrew. The War on Normal People: The Truth About America's Disappearing Jobs. Hachette Books: 2018.
- Read the Executive Summary (pp. 3-5) to the Champaign County Illinois Community Health Improvement Plan 2021-23.
W12: Assignments (Due 11/13): Reading Response and Interview Transcript
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W13: 11/14 – Citations (and Visualizations with our Survey Data) Workshop
Reading: NONE
W13: 11/16 Thursday Lab -- Individual Meetings on Projects in 31 Gregory Hall
W13: Assignment (Due 11/29) Paper Outline and Draft Slides
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W14 THANKSGIVING BREAK
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W15: 11/28 NO CLASS!! WORK ON YOUR PAPER OUTLINE AND DRAFT SLIDES!!
Readings: none
W15: 11/30 -- Individual Review of Paper Outline and Draft Slides via Zoom: https://illinois.zoom.us/j/84356704174?pwd=RzNIdGNYR0ZtZzB1TDNyUjhNc0dSdz09. Individual times emailed to you from MACS265TeachingTeam@gmail.com.
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W16: 12/5 FINAL DAY OF CLASS - Slide Presentations (Papers Due 12/12) Meeting has been changed to virtual; here is the Zoom link: https://illinois.zoom.us/j/87329714341?pwd=NEMxT0F3VkpCcSswdlh3MVVTWFBwZz09
The final paper is due by email to the teaching team at MACS265TeachingTeam@gmail.com at 9am Tuesday, December 12th.