Student projects from that year included:
These projects are still referenced in UW’s current DASS 341 syllabi as exemplars. dass 341 eng jav 2021
Following the racial justice protests of 2020, UW revised its curriculum to emphasize actionable data justice. DASS 341 in 2021 explicitly taught how to audit algorithms for racial bias in environmental permitting. Student projects from that year included:
To understand the workload, here is a reconstructed weekly plan from the archived 2021 syllabus: These projects are still referenced in UW’s current
| Week | ENG Lecture Topic | JAV Lab Activity | |------|-------------------|------------------| | 1 | Introduction to Environmental Racism | Setting up Node.js and Git | | 2 | The EJ Atlas Project | Fetching JSON data from EPA APIs | | 3 | Case Study: Cancer Alley, Louisiana | Creating choropleth maps with Leaflet | | 4 | Data Bias in Environmental Reporting | Debugging JavaScript callbacks | | 5 | Midterm: Essay on Flint Water Crisis | Midterm: Code review (functions & arrays) | | 6 | Indigenous Data Sovereignty | Working with GeoJSON | | 7 | Climate Gentrification | Interactive sliders with D3.js | | 8 | Group Project Proposals | Wireframing the interactive dashboard | | 9 | Policy Implications (Title VI of the Civil Rights Act) | Integrating multiple APIs | | 10 | Final Presentations | Final project submission (GitHub Pages) |