UC Berkeley Faculty: Bring Human Contexts and Ethics to your classroom
The Human Contexts and Ethics (HCE) team collaborates with UC Berkeley faculty to integrate HCE materials into technical courses across campus.
Hundreds of Berkeley students take HCE courses each semester, and many of these classes meet requirements for a wide range of majors. We envision a future where all undergraduates, regardless of discipline, graduate with this critical foundation.
To reach that goal, we collaborate with UC Berkeley faculty who are interested in bringing HCE principles forward in their own courses.
The collaboration experience
While each collaboration is unique, generally, if you reach out to our HCE team with interest in learning more about integrating materials into a UC Berkeley course, you can expect a partnership to:
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Review existing syllabi and materials to identify opportunities for HCE integration
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Identify key HCE learning objectives that complement existing course materials
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Co-develop novel curricular interventions or modify existing curriculum
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Collaborate on grant proposals to support more extensive curriculum development
Our goal is to empower faculty to determine the right way to integrate lectures, assignments, and other materials with HCE principles in an organic way that enhances, rather than distracts from, the goals of their courses.
Read about our collaboration to bring HCE to Data 102
Breaking Down the Divide Between Technology and Society at Berkeley
Berkeley’s undergraduate Data Science program is embedding Human Contexts and Ethics (HCE) directly into its core technical courses. Instead of treating ethics as an afterthought, faculty are demonstrating their commitment to the "society" piece in the College of Computing, Data Science, and Society--working to show students that technical decisions have real-world consequences for real people.
The Human Contexts and Ethics Team
Cathryn Carson
Cathryn Carson is a historian of science and technology and a scholar in Science, Technology, and Society (STS). She has been active for several decades in interdisciplinary collaborations in undergraduate and graduate STEM education, including nuclear engineering and data science
Ari Edmundson
Ari Edmundson is a lecturer in the Department of History. He has taught and developed Human Contexts and Ethics curriculum for data science since 2018.
HCE-affiliated faculty
Massimo Mazzotti (Professor, Department of History; teaches Data C104)
Jordan Mursinna (lecturer, Department of History; teaches Data C104)
Daniel Roddy (lecturer, Department of History; teaches Data 4AC and Data C104)
Lisa Yan (Teaching Professor, EECS; collaborated on integrating HCE into Data Science Undergraduate Studies curriculum)
Interested? Connect with our team!
Even if you are unsure whether you wish to commit to updating your curriculum at this time, we are excited to talk to anyone interested in HCE.
Contact Cathryn Carson (clcarson@berkeley.edu) or Ari Edmundson (aedmundson@berkeley.edu).