The Fall 2020 Women in Tech Initiative Decal Course Opportunities and Barriers is for students who want hands-on experience in creating projects that advance diversity and inclusion in tech. The course engages in an innovative approach to learning by viewing social-good opportunities from diverse perspectives.
The course leverages weekly guest speakers who are practitioners from diverse sectors of tech fields – college recruiting to medical technology – who work toward finding technology-driven sociological solutions. By exploring diverse social good innovation via guest speakers with expertise, this decal hopes to enable students to see different pathways others have taken into the tech industry, network, and get feedback on their big ideas. Students from all majors can learn new pathways into technology careers where they can use their skills to enter unexpected fields and/or identify pathways into tech.
This course uses innovative pedagogy as a student-centered learning, student-facilitated course that brings students across campus majors and diverse life experiences to contribute to discussion-based learning rather than a single-perspective lecture. The course culminates with a capstone project where they will be able to pitch and prototype their idea in front of a panel of judges and their peers.
The course meets Tuesdays starting September 1, 2020 from 6-7:30 pm on Zoom. This is a 1 or 2 unit course.
Opportunities and Barriers: Identifying Pathways into Tech
Fall 2020 Decal Course
1 or 2 Units
Zoom/Remote
EECS 98, Class #27775
Learn more about the course: https://witi.berkeley.edu/opportunities-and-barriers-identifying-pathways-into-tech/
Learn more about the Women in Tech Initiative at the University of California.