2015-2016

The DOCC 2015-2016 cycle spans from August of 2015 to June of 2016; this cycle features two courses: Collaborations in Feminism & Technology and Global Media Activism. These courses model collaboration as a feminist technology through a series of connected, open learning events that will allow participants to explore DOCC resources in conversation with other FemTechNet learners. If you would like to start your own node, please visit “how to get started.” For 2015-2016, the DOCC are being taught at these nodes below.

 

2016

 

Brown University

  • Elisa Giardina Papa
  • Modern Culture and Media
  • Course Title: Art/Gender/Technology
  • Number of Students: 12
  • Level: Undergraduate

College of William & Mary

  • Elizabeth Losh
  • American studies, cross listed with Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies
  • Course Title: Gender and Digital Culture
  • Number of Students: 22
  • Level: Undergraduate

Cornell University

  • Renate Ferro
  • College of Architecture, Art and Planning, The Department of Art
  • Course Title: Introduction to Digital Media
  • Number of Students: 12 to 15
  • Level: Undergraduate

The City College of New York

  • Diana Mincyte
  • Course Title: Global Media Activism 
  • Level: Graduate

McGill University

  • Carrie Rentschler
  • Course Title: Global Media Activism 
  • Level: Graduate

McMaster University

  • Paula Gardner
  • Course Title: Global Media Activism 
  • Level: Graduate

The New School 

  • Anne Balsamo
  • Course Title: Global Media Activism 
  • Level: Graduate

Pennsylvania State University & University of Helsinki 

  • Karen Keifer-Boyd & Martina Paatela-Nieminen
  • Art Education Program in the School of Visual Arts (PSU) & Dept. of Teacher Education (U of Helsinki)
  • Course Title: New Media & Pedagogy
  • Number of Students: 21
  • Level: Graduate

Temple University 

  • K.J. Surkan
  • Course Title: Gender and Media 
  • Number of Students: 20
  • Level: Undergraduate

Texas A&M University 

  • Cara Wallis
  • Department of Communication
  • Course Title: “Gender and Technology” or “Feminist Studies of Technology”
  • Number of Students: 25
  • Level: Undergraduate

University of Alberta

  • Mo Engel
  • Women and Gender Studies (undergrad) / Humanities Computing (grad)
  • Course Title: Digital Feminism(s)
  • Number of Students: 16
  • Level: Undergraduate & Graduate

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • Anita Say Chan
  • Course Title: Global Media Activism 
  • Level: Graduate

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  • Lilly Nguyen
  • Women’s and Gender Studies, cross listed with Anthropology
  • Course Title: Women in Science: Gender, History, and Labors of Information Technology
  • Number of Students: 25-30
  • Level: Undergraduate 

University of Washington

  • Ivette Bayo Urban
  • The Information School
  • Course Title: Collaborations in Feminism and Technology 
  • Number of Students: 20
  • Level: Undergraduate & Graduate

Wellesley College

  • Jenny Musto
  • Women’s and Gender Studies Department
  • Course Title: Gender, Sexuality and Contemporary American Society
  • Number of Students: 18
  • Level: Undergraduate & Graduate

 

 

2015

 

Community Venues

  • Caroyn Elerding and colleague 
  • Columbus, OH; Public Library (starts October)
  • Course Title: Dialogues in Feminism and Technology
  • Number of Students: TBA
  • Level: All levels

Colby-Sawyer College

  • Melissa Meade
  • Humanities
  • Course Title: Introduction to Media Studies — not a full DOCC, but I want to find a way to incorporate an FTN unit
  • Number of Students: 30
  • Level: Introductory undergraduate

College of New Jersey

  • Marla Jaksch
  • College of the Humanities & Social Sciences
  • Course Title: Feminist Theories [Women’s & Gender Studies 325]
  • Number of Students: 18 
  • Level: Upper level WGS with mostly WGS majors/minors and 2 gender grad certificate student; feminist theories cluster in collaboration with Ileana Jimenez and her High School fem theories class in NYC

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology

McMaster University

  • Paula Gardner
  • Course Title: Feminism, Technology and Science
  • about 12 students
  • Level: Grad

The New School, Eugene Lang College

  • Marcea Decker & T.L. Cowan
  • Course Title: Designing Digital Knowledges: Labor, Action, Production
  • Number of Students: 18
  • Level: Upper-year undergrads

OCAD University

The Pennsylvania State University

  • Karen Keifer-Boyd
  • Art Education and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
  • Course Title: Diversity, Visual Culture & Pedagogy [Art Education AED 225; gaming, cultural artifacts-feminist mapping with other DOCCs]
  • Number of Students:  30
  • Level: Sophomore level undergrads
  • Karen Keifer-Boyd
  • Art Education and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
  • Course Title: Visual Culture & Educational Technologies [Art Education AED 322; Exquisite Engendering with other DOCCs]
  • Number of Students:  5 
  • Level: Junior level undergrads

Temple University

University of California, Riverside

  • Dana Simmons 
  • Units: 4
  • Course Title: Technopolitics [HIST 254]
  • Number of Students: ~9
  • Level: Graduate

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

  • Sharon Irish 
  • Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Media and Cinema Studies, and Gender and Women’s Studies
  • Course Title: Collaborations in Feminism & Technology
  • Number of Students: 12
  • Level: Graduate

University of Maryland, College Park

  • Instructor: Alexis Lothian
  • Unit: Women’s Studies (College of Arts and Humanities)
  • Course title: Transforming Cultures and Technologies: Race, Gender, and Digital Media
  • Number of students: 15 enrolled before start of classes, caps at 25
  • Level: upper division undergraduate

University of Washington

  • Regina Lee
  • Gender, Women’s and Sexuality Studies
  • Course Title: Gender and Online Engagement
  • Number of Students: 22
  • Level: mostly upper-level undergraduate

Wellesley College / Women’s and Gender Studies Department

  • Jenny Musto
  • Units: 1
  • Course Title: Transnational Feminisms
    • This seminar is structured as a critical engagement of feminism(s) in transnational context. In it we will engage with notions of “collaboration,” “solidarity” and “praxis” and creatively imagine, digitally curate, and methodologically explore what the practice of these ideas may consist of.
    • Note: This too isn’t a full DOCC course but I’d like to introduce students to readings and possibly any podcast(s) drawing upon tech and transnational feminisms
  • Number of Students: 15
  • Level: Undergraduate seminar with mostly WGST undergraduate students

Yale University

  • Laura Wexler and Vanessa Agard-Jones
  • Course Title: Gender & Sexuality in Media & Popular Culture
  • Number of Students: TBA
  • Level: Undergraduate and Graduate