Assignments, Readings and Schedule
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)
W1: 1/17 – 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 1/23): Documenting Campus Spots Report & Reading Response
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W2: 1/24 – 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
- Scalar Registration key: qgZDUeRpybWWCaxr
W2: Assignments (Due 1/30): Alice Campbell Hall Report & Reading Response
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W3: 1/31 – Innovating Accessibility: DRES
Reading:
- Bruce MacFarlane. Researching with Integrity: The Ethics of Academic Enquiry. 2009. (Chapter 1: The Legacy of Nuremberg)
- Register at https://about.citiprogram.org using University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign (SSO) as your chosen organization. After you have an account, complete the "CORE IRB Training" module.
- Robinson Meyer. Everything We Know About Facebook's Secret Mood-Manipulation Experiment. in The Atlantic.
W3: Assignents (Due 2/6): Historicizing Research Ethics and Documenting DRES
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W4: 2/7 – Historicizing the Institutional Review Board (IRB) and Documenting Accessibility on Campus
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
W4: 2/9 Thursday Lab -- (Independent) Documenting Accessibility on Campus
W4: Assignments (Due 2/13): Historicizing the IRB and Documenting Accessibility on Campus
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W5: 2/14 – 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)
W5: 2/16 Thursday Lab -- (Group) Visit to the University of Illinois Archives, 146 Library 1408 West Gregory St, Urbana
W5: Assignments (Due 2/20): Reading Response and University Archive Visit Report
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W6: 2/21 – 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
W6: 2/23 Thursday Lab -- (Independent) Visiting and Documenting UIUC Cultural Centers
W6: Assignments (Due 2/27): Reading Response and Documenting UIUC Cultural Centers
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W7: 2/28 – People and Data -- Surveys & Data Bias
Reading:
- Unit One/Allen Hall History (1994) (ignore the links; just read the Unit One History portion)
- Proposal to Encourage Undergraduate Education Development at UIUC (1972)
- The Red, Teal, Raven, and 22 buses stop near the SLCA. (You can easily walk to the SLCA from FAR/PAR). You can use this Trip Planner to arrange to get there by 9:30 am. MTD overview map here. If it were us, we would take the Teal bus (#12) that leaves the Illini Union at 9:07am.
W7: Assignments (Due 3/6 ): Reading Response and Preliminary Proposal
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W8: 3/7 – LLCs & Alternative Education Programs
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: 3/9 Lab -- (Group) Visit to the Main Library, Room 220 (1408 W. Gregory Dr.)
W8: Assignments (Due 3/20): Reading Response and Secondary Sources
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W9: 3/14 – SPRING BREAK!
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W10: 3/21 – Survey Refinement and Release
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) To the University with Love: An Educational Reform Manifesto - University of Illinois 1968.
- (Skim) Technograph: Student Engineering Magazine at Illinois, February 1970.
- We have visitors in class next week. Their bios are here.
W10: 3/23 Thursday Lab -- (Group) Consent, Interviews, and Project Discussion, in 1047 Sydney Lu.
- Here's the Survey Outreach Template we'll use.
- Here's the Interview Outreach Template we'll use.
- Here's the Informed Consent for Interviews.
- Here's the Informed Consent Tip Sheet.
W10: Assignments (Due 3/27): Reading Response and Interview Prep
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W11: 3/28 – Student Movements -- Alumni Visit
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: 3/30 Thursday Lab -- On your own - Use this time for interviews!
- Here's the New Reminder Survey Outreach Template.
- Here's the Interview Outreach Template.
- Here's the Informed Consent for Interviews and the Informed Consent Tip Sheet.
- Here's a Guide for how to Record/Transcribe Video in Zoom.
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W12: 4/4 – Plato and Alternative Education
Reading:
Fernanda Viégas, 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?
W12: 4/6 Thursday Lab -- -- (Group) Visit to the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), 1205 W Clark St, Urbana, IL 61801. Advanced Visualization Lab. Map to NCSA from Sidney Lu Bldg.
W12: Assignments (Due 4/10): Reading Response and Interviews
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W13: 4/11 – Visualization Styles and Goals
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.
W13: 4/13 Thursday Lab -- (Group) Vis with Excel in 1047 Sidney. Lab worksheet here.
- Formula for Aggregating Gender in our Excel file: =IFERROR(IF(EQ2, ER2, INDEX($EM$1:$EP$1,1,MATCH(1, EM2:EP2,0))), "N/A")
W13: Assignments (Due 4/17): Reading Response and Outline/Slides
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W14: 4/18 – Data in the Community
Reading:
(Skim if interested)
- Marc Andreessen, Why Andreessen Horowitz Is Investing in Rap Genius
- Pages 152-158: Jimena Canales, “Mosaic: The First Point-and-Click Internet Browser,” in The University of Illinois: Engine of Innovation, edited by Frederick E. Hoxie.
- Greg Newby, "My Prairienet Story"
W14: 4/20 Thursday Lab -- (Group) We will go over the five slides and work on visualizations in 1047 Sidney.
W14: Assignments: Work on your final projects! Presentations begin 4/27.
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W15: 4/25 – NCSA's MOSAIC
Readings: none
W15: 4/27 Thursday – Final Presentations (Papers Due 5/9)
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W16: 5/02 – Final Presentations (Papers Due 5/9)
The final paper is due by email to the teaching team at IS266TeachingTeam@gmail.com at 9am Tuesday, May 9th.