Difficult Conversations
By including meaningful, hard conversations about these topics, one can facilitate student learning on issues that will only become more urgent as time goes on.
Overview
When performing a deep dive into responsible computing, it is critical to have conversations about topics including but not limited to race, gender, structural inequalities, and violence. The reason for that is when talking about responsible computing, one is talking about the role of computing in society, and talking about society is messy and difficult (as is life in general). This section focuses on classes that are (i) primarily discussion/reading based (so not required introductory courses though we address such class very briefly later in the section) and (ii) taught to primarily computing majors (i.e. the students might not have the required background or training to talk about difficult topics).
