Issues for Ethnic Minorities and Women in Science and Engineering

Announcements

•   3/28  Thanks for an interesting class.  Students who are interested in working with us to pursue delivery of their policy memos should contact Profs. Ginorio and/or Olmstead, as we plan to bring your best ideas to the UW administration.
  
• Older Announcements

Schedules and Assignments

• Class Schedule
• List of Reading Assignments by class date (will be added to/updated regularly throughout the quarter).
• List of Written Assignments, with Due Dates
• Detailed Description of Grading and Assignments.
• Submit Assignments Electronically here.

Other Class Links

• Course Chat Room.
• Anonymous Email Form.
• First Day Handout
• Assorted Web Links Relevant to the Class

PLEASE send suggestions.

Peer Evaluation Forms

• Generic Form for planning your presentation
• Form for February 7.  K-12 Climate.  Ashleigh
  
• Form for February 7.  K-12 Intervention Programs.  Frank and Ellen
  
• Form for February 16.  Role models and Stereotypes.  Grace and Allison K.
  
• Form for February 28.  Impact of Federal Equity Laws.  Daryl and Carter
  
• Form for February 28.  Testing and Standards in Public Education.  Nahid and Allison H.
  

TIME:

• Winter Quarter 2006. Tuesdays & Thursdays 1:30-3:20 p.m

• Mechanical Engineering Building:  MEB237, University of Washington (link to map)
  

INSTRUCTORS:

The seminar will be co-taught by a social scientist (Angela Ginorio) and a physical scientist (Marjorie Olmstead):

 

Prof. Angela B. Ginorio	Office hours: Tuesday 3:30 - 5:00 and by appointment
Women Studies	Padelford B-110P (for office hours)	685-2238
	email:  ginorio@u.washington.edu
Prof. Marjorie A. Olmstead	Office hours: Monday 11-12 and by appointment	685-3031
Physics	Physics-Astronomy Bldg. B-433
	e-mail: olmstd@u.washington.edu

Seminar Goals:

• Inform students of issues faced by women and ethnic minorities in science and engineering, providing both a national and local context
• Introduce students to expert women and minority practitioners of science, as well as expert social scientists, who study and/or experience these issues
• Enable students to critically evaluate both the framing of issues facing women and minorities in science and engineering and the effectiveness of solutions
• Prepare students to address these issues in the context of their own disciplines and institutions

Seminar Topics:

For specific dates see Schedule.

Status of Ethnic Minorities and Women in Science and Engineering:  Historical Context and Current Issues.

Climate Issues and Successful Interventions:  Identifying Problems and Solutions

Impact and Creation of Policy:  Agenda for Action

Seminar Structure:

The seminar will meet twice weekly. Classes will combine lecture presentations with class discussions (based on both presentations and assigned readings). Presentations will be made by invited (off-campus) speakers, invited UW faculty and staff, course instructors, and students. Each presenter will suggest related readings.

A Schedule of all classes.

Grading:

For more complete information, see First Day Handout and Assignment Detail Handout.
All students will be expected to participate in class discussions, write several short reports, and make a class presentation (as part of a group). Students taking the course for 5 credits will also do a research project with a corresponding paper. Students who wish to obtain W-credit may do so, but they should check early in the quarter with Profs. Olmstead and Ginorio.  They will have earlier deadlines for reports and papers to allow for feedback on their writing.

This is a reading, writing, and discussion course. These are the major requirements:

• participating in class discussion (with evidence of having completed the readings) (13% of final grade)
• leading/facilitating a class presentation, and a report on this presentation (25% of final grade, partly by peer evaluation)
• preparing four short reports (52% of final grade)
• summary of one of the panels or visiting speakers (10% of final grade)

• The above requirements (renormalized to total 60% of the final grade).
• research and policy paper (40% of final grade)
  

Prerequisites:

One quarter of natural science or engineering (not including math, computer science, or technical writing).

Old Announcements

• 3/14  Please turn in all items to be graded by 11 pm this evening (Tuesday, March 14).  If you have trouble posting to the electronic submission site, email your files to wost.  We plan to determine course grades on Thursday, and thus need to grade all your work by Wednesday.
  
• 2/24  Four slide/page, pdf versions of student presentations are posted through the reading assignments page on the day of the presentation.  They are in the passworded folder.  If you need the full powerpoint for some reason, contact either Prof. Olmstead or the presenter.
  
• 2/7  Peer review forms are available for the first student presentations.  You should receive an email with a link to the survey, or you can find the link below.  Please fill the forms out within a week of the presentation.  It counts both for your class participation grade and for the presenters' grades on their reports.
  
• 1/26  Please come to class on Jan 31 prepared to select a UW intervention program for your second report.  Links to several programs may be found here on the Links page.  Feel free to choose another that you are aware of, or one of the sub-programs of the larger organizations linked to on the web page.
• 1/23  The Electronic Submission "E-Submit" board for this class has been created through Catalyst.  You may turn in electronic copies of any reports here.  If you have difficulties using it, please contact Prof. Olmstead.  It is currently set to accept work until 11 pm on each due date.  Extensions must be requested, with the reasons documented, at least 24 hours in advance of the due date.  If your files are larger than 2 MB (a possibility for the visuals for your presentations), please put a small file on the E-submit board letting us know that you have instead emailed them to wost@u.washington.edu.
  
• 1/13  On Monday, Feb 6, 3:30 pm in EE1 003, Dr. Lenore Blum will present a seminar on a successful intervention program for women in computer science at Carnegie Mellon University, "Transforming the Culture of Computing: The Carnegie Mellon Experience (Similarity is the Difference)."  abstract
  
• 1/12  The student presentation list is on the Class Schedule.
  
• 1/6  The Reading Assignment page has been updated to give guidance for the readings for next Tuesday and also to link to the  various graphs of statistics presented yesterday.
• 1/6  The Web Links page has been updated.  Please browse and let Prof. Olmstead know of other links to be added or of links that don't seem to work.
  
• 1/3  One-page pdf file containing tentative course schedule/syllabus (duplicates info on Class Schedule web page)
  
• 1/3  Link to campus map showing location of MEB.
  
• 12/23 Note that assignment details and reading assignments are approximate, and not yet finalized.
  
• 12/22   All students interested in taking or auditing this class should attend the first day (Tuesday, January 3, 1:30 pm in MEB 237).