| AK-255350-17 | Education Programs: Humanities Connections | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | Building a Humanities Minor: Construction and Critique in Digital Technology | 5/1/2017 - 9/30/2020 | $64,670.00 | James | W. | Malazita | Rebecca | | Rouse | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | Troy | NY | 12180-3590 | USA | 2017 | History and Philosophy of Science, Technology, and Medicine | Humanities Connections | Education Programs | 64670 | 0 | 44805.44 | 0 | A two-year interdisciplinary faculty project to
develop a four-course
minor that integrates critical humanities
analysis with applied computer science.
This proposal develops a new, 4-course minor titled "alt.code," to be housed in Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences. The goal of the project is to develop a humanities curricula that leverages the techno-centric passions of both Humanities and STEM students in our Engineering-Centered Institution, while also providing those students with a critical lens to historicize, contextualize, and deconstruct the roles, values, and histories of digital technology. |