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Tuskegee Scholars

Research, Pedagogy, and Discovery Seminar

About the Seminar Project Specs

Weekly Schedule

Subject to change. Jump to current week here for the latest updates.

Contact List of Guest Speakers

  • 1:00 PM
  • 1:30 PM
  • 2:00 PM
  • 2:30 PM
  • 3:00 PM
  • 3:30 PM
  • 4:00 PM

  • Monday

    • Scholars Lecture
      2:10 PM–3:00 PM
      EVANS 61

  • Tuesday

    • Group Work
      3:10 PM–4:00 PM
      EVANS 1011

  • Wednesday

    • Scholars Lecture
      2:10 PM–3:00 PM
      EVANS 61

  • Thursday

    • Scholars Lecture
      3:10 PM–4:30 PM
      AAPB 155

  • Friday

    • Group Work
      1:10 PM–4:00 PM
      EVANS 1011

Week 1 (SOCS 174)

M Jun 20
No class (Academic Holiday)
Tu Jun 21
1 Group Introduction + Team Building
W Jun 22
Office Hours Data Science/Computing
F Jun 24
2 Group What is research? Reading research papers
Project 1 Specs released
Project 1 Specifications

Week 2 (SOCS 174)

M Jun 27
Office Hours Data Science/Computing
Tu Jun 28
Group Project reading
W Jun 29
Scholars (1:30-3pm, Blum Hall B-100) Human Contexts and Ethics in Data Science Education
Th Jun 30
Scholars (3pm-4pm, SOCS 174) Principles of Data Science
F Jul 1
Group Project 1 Finish Readings
Project 1 Specifications

Week 3 (EVANS 6)

M Jul 4
No class (Academic Holiday)
Tu Jul 5
Group Project 1 Finish Lesson Plans
Project 1 Specifications
W Jul 6
3 Scholars EDA with Spreadsheets
Th Jul 7
Scholars (AAPB 155) Thriving in STEM
F Jul 8
Group Project 1 Presentations
Project 1 Specifications
Project 2 Intro to dataset
Project 2 Specifications

Week 4

M Jul 11
Scholars Guest speaker: Dave Harding, Professor of Sociology, D-Lab
Required pre-readings on the Diamante Case Study
(all files)
Why Data Science Needs Feminism
Video Intro to Case Study
Case Study Sheet
Lecture Slides
Tu Jul 12
Group EDA
W Jul 13
Scholars Human Contexts and Ethics Reading
“Digital Natives”
Th Jul 14
Scholars (AAPB 155) Thriving in STEM
F Jul 15
Group EDA, Python
Project 2 Due (Checkoff)

Week 5

M Jul 18
Scholars Guest speaker: Ari Edmundson, Human Contexts and Ethics
“Digital Natives”, Joanna Radin
Tu Jul 19
Guest Speaker: Chris Volinsky, AT&T
Group Project 3 EDA - Python
Project 3 Specifications
W Jul 20
Scholars Guest speaker: Charis Thompson, Chancellor’s Professor and Associate Dean of CDSS
Watch “The New Jim Code”, Ruha Benjamin
Read Lazer et al.
Slides
Th Jul 21
Scholars CDSS Social with Eric Van Dusen (4pm, Blackwell Hall)
F Jul 22
Group EDA - Python

Week 6

M Jul 25
Scholars (Yali’s Qualcomm Cafe) Coffee Chat: Hikari Murayama, PhD student, Energy and Resources
Tu Jul 26
Guest Speaker: Avi Feller, Professor of Public Policy and Statistics
Group EDA, Python
W Jul 27
Scholars Guest Speaker: James Rue, Associate Dean, School of Journalism
Slides
Th Jul 28
Scholars (AAPB 155) Thriving in STEM
F Jul 29
Group Project 3 Due (Checkoff)
Group Final Project Specifications Released

Week 7

M Aug 1
Scholars Pedagogy: How to write computational problems
Tu Aug 2
Guest Speaker: Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton, Professor of Psychology
Group Society
W Aug 3
Scholars Guest speaker: John DeNero, Teaching Professor of EECS
Th Aug 4
No class
F Aug 5
Group Presentation Work

Week 8

M Aug 8
No class
Dinner 5:30pm, Great China (2190 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, CA 94704)
Tu Aug 9
Group Project **2:30-4pm** Final Presentations
W Aug 10
No class
Th Aug 11
No class
F Aug 12
No class (Finals)