The DISCO Curriculum Project explores student learning about race, gender, and disability in Digital Studies Institute (DSI) undergraduate courses at the University of Michigan. Project collaborators are surveying and interviewing students in DSI courses, building upon a pilot study launched in 2023.
Among other questions, this project considers the following:
- How can instructors better support student learning about digital inequality? How can digital studies classes in particular address gaps in STEM courses, especially regarding critical and cultural approaches to digital technologies?
- How do students’ stories about themselves or others inform their burgeoning understandings of digital inequality, race and racism, disability and ableism, and related concepts?
- How do students narrate their own experiences with or understandings of disability, accessibility, techno-ableism, and related concepts? How do these narratives shift, if at all, over the arc of a semester?
Past and present collaborators
- David Adelman
- Toni Bushner
- Cherice Chan
- Kitty Geoghan
- Huan He
- Martha Henzy
- Evan Hoye
- Sarah Hughes
- Pratiksha Menon
- Elise Nagy
- Jessica Hill Riggs
- Kristen Waterbury
- Eric Whitmer
- Grace Wilsey
- Remi Yergeau
- Lida Zeitlin-Wu