ENGR498C: Leadership Development to Promote Equity in Engineering Relationships -

Fall 2011 Course Syllabus

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WEEK 1 (October 4) - Introduction to PEERs and State of Engineering

Week one class notes

WEEK 2 (October 11) - Introduction to Expert Jigsaw I: Group Work in Engineering

Readings Due

Dreifus, C. (2008, Jan. 8). In Professor’s Model, Diversity = Productivity. New York Times, from http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/08/science/08conv.html?_r=1
The Situation of Sexism. Excerpt from Vedantam, S. (2010). The Hidden Brain New York, NY: Random House Publishing. Retrieved from http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2010/05/17/the-situation-of-sexism/
Tatar, N., Chachra, D. Zastavker, Y.V., & Stolk, J. (2010). Work in Progress: Using Video and Self-Reflection to Enhance Undergraduate Teams. 40th ASEE/IEEE Fronteirs in Education Conference, from http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel5/5659688/5673102/05673324.pdf?arnumber=5673324
Jordan, Diann (2006). Jennie R. Patrick: Rebel With A Cause, in Sisters in Science: Conversations with Black Women Scientists about Race, Gender and Their Passion for Science. Purdue University Press, West Lafayette, pg. 163-175.

Assignment Due

Catalyst Reading Summary

Handouts

Expert Jigsaw Model handout

Week two class notes

WEEK 3 (October 18) – Jigsaw Planning I with Expert Groups

Readings Due

Readings are specific to the Assigned Jigsaw I Topic (See Syllabus, Page 6)

Assignment Due

Catalyst reading response specific to Jigsaw reading

Activity

Planning Jigsaw I Teaching Material

Week three class notes

Implicit Bias

Bedrick, C. (2004, December 19). Invisible Bias. Boston Globe, from http://www.projectimplicit.net/Invisiblebias.pdf
Chapter 8: Implicit Bias. (2010). Why So Few? Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. American Association of University Women.
Chapter 8: Shades of Justice: Unconscious Bias and the Death Penalty. In Vedantam, S. (2010). The Hidden Brain (pp. 168-187). New York, NY: Random House Publishing.
Assignment: Implicit Association Test (Gender-Science Demo), http://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/demo/

Stereotypes and Belonging

Gladwell, M. (2005). Primed for Action. In, Blink: The power of thinking without thinking (pp. 52-61). New York: Little, Brown, and Company.
Chapter 3: Implicit Bias. (2010). Why So Few? Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. American Association of University Women.
Chapter 3 (2010). Delusions of Gender "Backwards in High Heels." Delusions of Gender: How our Minds, Society and Neurosexism Creates Difference. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, p. 27-39.

Biology and Socialization

Chapter 2: Gender begins – and continues – at home. InValian, V. (1998). Why so slow? The advancement of women. (pp. 23-46). Cambridge, MA: The M.I.T. Press.
Crowley, K., Callanan, M.A., Tenenbaum, H.R., & Allen, E. Parents Explain More Often to Boys than to Girls during Shared Scientific Thinking, Psychological Science, 12, 258-261.
Shanahan, M.C. (2011, March 29) Can We Declare Victory for Women in Their Participation in Science? Not Yet. Scientific America. Retrieved from http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=can-we-declare-victory-in-the-parti-2011-03-29#comments
Chapter 2 (2010). Why You Should Cover Your Head with a Paper Bag if you Have a Secret you Don’t Want Your Wife to Find Out. Delusions of Gender: How our Minds, Society and Neurosexism Create Difference. New York: W. W. Norton and Company, p. 14-26.

WEEK 4 (October 25) – Expert Jigsaw I Teaching Session

Readings Due

Reading specified by groups (Review Week 3 readings as needed)

Assignment Due

Prepare for teaching Expert Jigsaw topic

Activity

Expert Jigsaw I teaching
Minute Paper

Week four class notes

WEEK 5 (November 1) -- Student Panel

Readings Due

Access to Advancement: An Audio Exploration of the National Effort to Increase the Role of Women with Disabilities in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. (2010). WAMC Northwest Public Radio. http://womeninscience.org/story.php?storyID=197
Ebert, J. (2005). Scientists with disabilities: Access all areas. Nature, 435, 552-554. http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v435/n7042/full/435552a.html
Loftus, M. (Summer 2010). In their grasp. ASEE PRISM, 19 (9), 37-39. http://www.prism-magazine.org/summer10/feature_02.cfm
Mattlin, B. (2010 July 26). Looking Back On 20 Years of Disability Rights. NPR. Retrieved from http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128697147.
Meaux, J.B., Green, A., & Broussand, L. (2009). ADHD in the college student: A block in the road. Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, 16, 248-256.

Assignment Due

Catalyst Reading Summary

Activity

Disability Panel

Week five class notes

WEEK 6 (November 8) – Introduction to Expert Jigsaw II: Stuck in the Shallow End

Readings Due

Introduction and Chapter 1: An Unlikely Metaphor: The Color Line in Swimming and Computer Science. In Margolis, J. (2008). Stuck in the shallow end: Education, race, and computing (pp. 1-25).Cambridge, MA: The M.I.T. Press.
Conclusion: The Best and the Brightest. In Margolis, J. (2008). Stuck in the shallow end: Education, race, and computing (pp. 133-140).Cambridge, MA: The M.I.T. Press.
Reluctant feminist? http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/08/education/the-reluctant-feminist.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm

Assignment Due

Catalyst Reading Summary

Week six class notes

WEEK 7 (November 15) –Jigsaw Planning II with Expert Groups

Readings Due

Uneven Playing Field

Reviewing applicants: Research on bias and assumptions. (2006). Women in Science & Leadership Engineering Institute University of Wisconsin-Madison [Brochure]. Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System.
Russ, T., Simonds, C., & Hunt, S. (2002). Coming out in the classroom. An occupational hazard?: The influence of sexual orientation on teacher credibility and perceived student learning. Communication Education, 51, 311-324.
Sandel, M. (2009 September 8). Justice: What’s the right thing to do? Episode 08: “What’s a fair start?”[Video file]. Retrieved from http://www.justiceharvard.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=45&Itemid=16

Talent, Hard Work, & Grit

Chapter 2 (2010). Why So Few? Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. American Association of University Women.
Gladwell, M. (2008). The 10,000 Hour Rule. Outliers (pp. 35-68). Boston, MA: Little, Brown, and Company.
Hyde, J.S., Lindberg, S.M., Linn, M.C., Ellis, A.B., & Williams, C.C. (2008). Gender similarities characterize math performance. Science, 321, 494-495.
Lehrer, J. (2011). Which Traits Predict Success? (The Importance of Grit). Wired Science: The Frontal Cortex. http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/03/what-is-success-true-grit/

Privilege

Lopez, G., & Chism, N. (1993). Classroom concerns of gay and lesbian students. College Teaching, 41, 97-104.
McIntosh, P. (1988). White privilege: A personal account of coming to see correspondent through work in Women Studies. Paper presented at the Center for Research on Women. http://www.iub.edu/~tchsotl/part2/McIntosh%20White%20Privilege.pdf
Preface. In Wise, T. (2007). White like me: Reflections on race from a privileged son (pp vii-xi). New York: Soft Skull Publishing.
O'Doherty, Susan. (2010 January 24). The Privilege of Not Recognizing Privilege. Inside Higher Education. http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/mama_phd/the_privilege_of_not_recognizing_privilege

Assignment Due:

Jigsaw Catalyst Survey

Activity

Planning Jigsaw II teaching material

Week seven class notes

WEEK 8 (November 22) – Expert Jigsaw II Teaching Session

Readings Due

Reading specified by groups (Review Week 6 readings as needed)

Assignment Due

Prepare for teaching Expert Jigsaw Topic

Activity

Expert Jigsaw teaching

Week eight class notes

Final Presentation Guidelines

WEEK 9 (November 29) – How to Deal with Resistance and How to be an Ally

Readings Due

Reason, R. D., & Broido, E. M. (2005). Issues and Strategies for Social Justice Allies (and the Student Affairs Professionals Who Hope to Encourage Them). New Direction for Student Services, 110, 81-89.
Excerpt (pp. 70-79) from Bonilla-Silva, E. & Forman, T. A. (2000). “I am not a racist but…”: Mapping White college students’ racial ideology in the USA. Discourse & Society, 11, 50-85.
Barres, B. (2006). Does Gender Matter? Nature, Vol. 442, 133-136
Some Reflections on the Dearth of Women in Science: A Talk by Ben Barres: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=608750863703097892#, Minutes 27:07 - 52:28

Assignment Due