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Micro-Seminar: The Branches that lead to STEM: Addressing Issues of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Access (DEIA) in STEM Fields PART ONE
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Thu, Aug 22, 2024
3 PM – 4:30 PM PDT (GMT-7)
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Part 1: Thursday, August 22, 2024 from 3:00 – 4:30 pm (PST)
Part 2: Friday, August 23, 2024 from 10:00 – 11:30 am (PST)
This “micro” seminar is designed to introduce incoming students, regardless of their intended or declared major, to the pressing issues and societal barriers that have long hindered increases in diversity, equity, inclusion and access within Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). During this three-hour course, students will explore the historical challenges that underrepresented minority groups (URMs) face in pursuing further education and careers in STEM fields, and discuss ways to effectively address the continuing and new challenges facing URMs today.
Learning Objectives: Define key terms related to broader discussions of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Access (DEIA), and relate these terms to challenges facing marginalized and underrepresented groups in STEM. Generate practical solutions and alternative workplace behaviors that can effectively promote increases in DEIA within STEM, on a local, national and global scale.
Day 1 Plan and Activities: Introductory survey, defining key terms as its relates to DEIA in STEM, conducting small group guided research to learn about historical barriers.
Day 2 Plan and Activities: Continue conducting small group guided research, present small group findings and engage in whole-class discussion about practical and meaningful solutions to address historical barriers.
Lead By: Professor Rita Barakat
Dr. Rita Barakat (she/ her) is a lecturer in the Department of Biological Sciences (Neurobiology section) and chair of the Neuroscience Graduate Program (NGP)'s Diversity Committee. She is also a graduate from USC's NGP, and her research focuses on utilizing behavioral and neuroimaging tools to study reading in children with dyslexia. Dr. Barakat has several years of experience teaching students from all sociocultural backgrounds and of various ages, spending four years of her graduate study working with the USC Joint Educational Project's Young Scientists Program (YSP) and other community partnership programs at USC to hone these pedagogical skills. She has applied her K-12 teaching experience to her work educating undergraduate and graduate students from all majors at USC, and has played an active role on curricular committees within her department and Dornsife to make innovative changes that seek to make higher STEM education more inclusive and accessible to all.
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Fri, Aug 23, 2024
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM
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10:00 AM – 11:30 AM
Micro-Seminar: The Branches that lead to STEM: Addressing Issues of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Access (DEIA) in STEM Fields PART TWO
Micro-Seminars have two parts. Attendance to both parts is required. Registering for the PART ONE session will automatically enroll you in the PART TWO session on Friday.
Part 1: Thursday, August 22, 2024 from 3:00 – 4:30 pm (PST)
Part 2: Friday, August 23, 2024 from 10:00 – 11:30 am (PST)
This “micro” seminar is designed to introduce incoming students, regardless of their intended or declared major, to the pressing issues and societal barriers that have long hindered increases in diversity, equity, inclusion and access within Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). During this three-hour course, students will explore the historical challenges that underrepresented minority groups (URMs) face in pursuing further education and careers in STEM fields, and discuss ways to effectively address the continuing and new challenges facing URMs today.
Learning Objectives: Define key terms related to broader discussions of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Access (DEIA), and relate these terms to challenges facing marginalized and underrepresented groups in STEM. Generate practical solutions and alternative workplace behaviors that can effectively promote increases in DEIA within STEM, on a local, national and global scale.
Day 1 Plan and Activities: Introductory survey, defining key terms as its relates to DEIA in STEM, conducting small group guided research to learn about historical barriers.
Day 2 Plan and Activities: Continue conducting small group guided research, present small group findings and engage in whole-class discussion about practical and meaningful solutions to address historical barriers.
Lead By: Professor Rita Barakat
Dr. Rita Barakat (she/ her) is a lecturer in the Department of Biological Sciences (Neurobiology section) and chair of the Neuroscience Graduate Program (NGP)'s Diversity Committee. She is also a graduate from USC's NGP, and her research focuses on utilizing behavioral and neuroimaging tools to study reading in children with dyslexia. Dr. Barakat has several years of experience teaching students from all sociocultural backgrounds and of various ages, spending four years of her graduate study working with the USC Joint Educational Project's Young Scientists Program (YSP) and other community partnership programs at USC to hone these pedagogical skills. She has applied her K-12 teaching experience to her work educating undergraduate and graduate students from all majors at USC, and has played an active role on curricular committees within her department and Dornsife to make innovative changes that seek to make higher STEM education more inclusive and accessible to all.