Our research team has developed three undergraduate courses centered on the output of our collaborative work: one at UIUC (instantiated in the Fall 2017 semester as Innovation Illinois: From Accessible Design to Supercomputing Cultures and in the Spring 2018 semester as Storytelling and Digital Media – both under a broader MACS 199: Innovation Illinois course header created by this project), and two at Purdue University (one in American Studies on Design, Innovation and Society, and the other a History course entitled HIST 31405: STEM and Gender). See a sample of current course descriptions below!

MACS 199: Innovation Illinois (Anita Say Chan, Fall 2017; Ned Prutzer, Spring 2018):

Want to learn about UIUC history and the innovations that came from it? Innovation Illinois introduces the histories of interdisciplinary innovations from the Urbana-Champaign campus that bridged students and researchers in engineering, humanities, sciences and the arts. We will explore how local histories of Illinois innovations help us understand today’s innovation trends and processes, from the growth of new design centers on university campuses to contemporary accessibility design, online education, and electronic music. As part of a final research project, students will be introduced to the basics of video editing and team produce a short-form video using a variety of primary sources, from interviews and news media to materials drawn from the University Archives.

HIST 31405: STEM and Gender (Sharra Vostral): 

Technological innovation has been a cornerstone of American identity. How technology matters to gender, and gender matters to technology, will be explored through studying amateur and professional scientists, industrialization, education, sexual division of labor, and home and work spaces in twentieth century America. Examining objects of technological innovation, their production, consumption, and use, reveals changing relationships between men and women.