Instructor: Dr. Sandra Shattuck
Office: Fine Arts 452
Phone: 410.455.2822
Hours: MW 3.15-4.15pm
E-mail: shattuck@umbc.edu

Please be aware that many of our required readings are online; these readings are all indicated on the Daily Plan with direct links. PLEASE plan ahead - technology is fallible, and sometimes it even seems malicious - usually at 1 pm on a Monday when you finally have a half-hour to do the assigned reading and the system decides to go down. Print out any readings ahead of time and you won't need to worry.

required texts
American Association of University Women Educational Foundation Commission on Technology, Gender, and Teacher
   Education.Tech-Savvy: Educating Girls in the New Computer Age. NY: AAUW Educational Foundation, 2000. ($17.30)
Balsamo, Anne. Technologies of the Gendered Body: Reading Cyborg Women. Durham NC: Duke UP, 1996.
Cassell, Justine and Henry Jenkins (eds.). From Barbie to Mortal Kombat: Gender and Computer Games.
   Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1998. ($17.95)
Hawthorne, Susan and Renate Klein (eds.). CyberFeminism: Connectivity, Critique and Creativity. North
   Melbourne: Spinifex Press, 1999. (17.95)
Piercy, Marge. He, She, and It. NY: Mass Paperbacks, 1993.
Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus. NY: Penguin Books, 1985

class website
http://research.umbc.edu/~shattuck/wmst390.html
The splash page gives you links to
- course information (the page you're currently reading)
- daily plan (tells you what we're doing each class period; includes links to assigned online readings)
- class links (these are links we'll use often)
- class resources (helpful links)
- moo login (takes you directly to login page)

class list
Some of your assignments require you to post to the class list, so be sure and subscribe.
To subscribe:
1. send an e-mail message to listproc@listproc.umbc.edu
2. don't type anything in subject header and be sure you don't have a signature file
3. in the body of the message, just type SUB WMST390A YOUR NAME
4. send message
You'll receive a message asking you to confirm. Follow the instructions. Whenever you want to send a message to the list, use this address: wmst390a@listproc.umbc.edu. For more information on lists, visit listproc.umbc.edu.

MOO
We'll use OldPuebloMOO located at the University of Arizona. An administrator (or "wizard") at OldPuebloMOO will send you an e-mail message (SAVE THIS!) with your user name and your password (you can change both of these when you first log on). Please remember to bring this information with you on Wednesday, 13 September, when we'll meet the first time in ECS 104. Class will always meet Wednesdays in ECS 104.

attitude and attendance
This course is discussion-intensive and student-centered. Bring openness of mind and heart, willingness to discuss and state your honest opinions, respect for others, and enthusiasm for individual and collective learning. Be prepared, show up and contribute. Excessive absences will qualify you for an administrative drop.

assignments
web analysis
moo logs
cwit talk series list reports
class discussions

first published: march 2000
last revised: 5 september 2000
send comments: shattuck@umbc.edu