Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, NY 12180-3590) James W. Malazita (Project Director: October 2016 to May 2022) Rebecca Rouse (Co Project Director: March 2017 to May 2022)
AK-255350-17
Humanities Connections
Education Programs
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Totals:
$64,670 (approved) $44,805 (awarded)
Grant period:
5/1/2017 – 9/30/2020
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Building a Humanities Minor: Construction and Critique in Digital Technology
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.
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