Enrollment

Chapter 6 - Teaching Technology for Community
Managing IT in Government, Business & Communities
by Gerry Gingrich (ed)
Idea Group Publishing 2003

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The course is open to all undergraduate students at UCB. About 48% of the students who have enrolled in the first three semesters are female. That is a remarkable percentage in the Department of Computer Science, where females have totaled between 11 and 16% of undergraduate majors during the last 14 years. It demonstrates that UCB's Development Center is achieving its goal of woman-friendly technical education.

The student body is also diverse in terms of majors. In the first three semesters, 40% of the 41 students have come from the College of Engineering and 60% from three other UCB Colleges (Arts and Sciences, Business, and Journalism and Communication). About 28% of the students have been Computer Science majors. Freshmen and sophomores have enrolled, but most (85%) of the students have been juniors or seniors. The course is part of the Technology, Arts, and Media [TAM] certificate curriculum (TAM, 2002), and 35% of the students have come from the TAM program. Enrollment has grown each semester, but teaching facilities will likely limit class size to about 20 25 students.

The heterogeneous student body is suitable. Students work in small, interdisciplinary teams to complete the projects. Students with capabilities in such areas as design, art, writing, and social science find natural roles, as do students with strong computational skills. There is particular need for students with expertise in databases, Web site development, and the writing of educational materials.

There are no formal prerequisites for the course, but, for maximal comfort, participants should be able to write a simple program, compose a Web page, or have some familiarity with at least one commercial software package. Students with more advanced computing knowledge are invited to help with computational instruction.

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