{"id":7107,"date":"2026-09-02T13:50:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T17:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arlduc.org\/senseandscale\/?p=7107"},"modified":"2026-09-01T17:51:44","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T21:51:44","slug":"diversity-and-technology-2026-session-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arlduc.org\/senseandscale\/?p=7107","title":{"rendered":"\u201cDiversity and Technology\u201d 2026: Session 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Agenda<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>device time\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>welcome<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>syllabus<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>device free time\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>oldest invention in the room<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/search.library.nyu.edu\/permalink\/01NYU_INST\/1n0hp3f\/alma99103190637207871\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BELOVED movie<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Assignment<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For all weekly assignments, you can use AI, but you must verify any information you find. Don&#8217;t be surprised if I ask about your sources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Please come to class prepared to verbally discuss the following items without a device in front of you. (Paper-based notes are okay.) \n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>What&#8217;s a surprising fact about minoritized people in the United States during the 1800s?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What&#8217;s a surprising facts about technology from the 1800s?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What&#8217;s a surprising face about Toni Morrison? <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What type of <a href=\"https:\/\/owl.purdue.edu\/owl\/research_and_citation\/conducting_research\/conducting_primary_research\/index.html?TSPD_101_R0=08993c5290ab20002678913c9ae48ea2bda522436f17709616f57e1ea2c5a8b3ed8d725a154bfb740842b541db1430005cfad3f45f70e0995a5d6ff17367914b209b5dcce37418a61b577f146490555a5b4544ac77a3f31e0822d657b2c3ee0b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">primary research<\/a> might you like to conduct on 1800s technology? Note: for this class, survey-based primary research will generally not be accepted, but we can discuss on a case-by-case basis.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Read and be prepared to discuss the similarities and differences between civil &amp; human rights laws\/policies of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyu.edu\/about\/policies-guidelines-compliance\/equal-opportunity.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NYU<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www1.nyc.gov\/site\/cchr\/law\/the-law.page\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">New York City<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/ag.ny.gov\/labor\/discriminations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">New York State<\/a>, and the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eeoc.gov\/employers\/small-business\/3-who-protected-employment-discrimination\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">United States<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Start looking through the novel <em>Beloved<\/em>. You won&#8217;t be asked about it until after Add\/Drop, but it doesn&#8217;t hurt to start getting familiar! <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agenda Assignment For all weekly assignments, you can use AI, but you must verify any information you find. Don&#8217;t be surprised if I ask about your sources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diversity","category-nyu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arlduc.org\/senseandscale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arlduc.org\/senseandscale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arlduc.org\/senseandscale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arlduc.org\/senseandscale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arlduc.org\/senseandscale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7107"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/arlduc.org\/senseandscale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7112,"href":"https:\/\/arlduc.org\/senseandscale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7107\/revisions\/7112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arlduc.org\/senseandscale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arlduc.org\/senseandscale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arlduc.org\/senseandscale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}