STA200 - Statistics for Social Justice

Course Schedule and Due Dates

Date Day Materials and/or Activities Homework (due at 8:30am the following day)
8/28 1 Activity 1

Listen to podcast “An Anti-Racist Approach to Data Science” (25 minutes)

Reflect on podcast. Submit on Moodle

Pose a question for class discussion on Moodle

8/29 2 Disparity Trap board game and Activity (printed)

Listen to podcast “Why Black Women Are More Likely to Face Eviction” (35 minutes)

Reflect on podcast. Submit on Moodle

Post a question for class discussion on Moodle

Waypoint Volunteer Application- Submit on Moodle. Click HERE.

8/30 3

Waypoint and Iowa Legal Aid training’s.

Activity 3

Watch Segregated by Design video

Reflect on video. Submit on Moodle

Post a question for class discussion on Moodle

8/31 4

Visit QRS.

OpenIntro Chapter 1 Notes

OpenIntro Ch1 Exercises: 1.1, 1.4, 1.10, 1.11, 1.12, 1.25, 1.35, 1.40, 1.43

Submit on paper.

9/1 5 OpenIntro Chapter 2 Notes

OpenIntro Ch2 Exercises: 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.7, 2.9, 2.10, 2.15, 2.16, 2.20, 2.21, 2.22, 2.23, 2.34

Submit on paper.

9/4 6

OpenIntro Data

Ex: labor_market_discrimination and pop_race_2019

IMS Ch6

Listen to podcast “Women’s Homelessness in Canada: A gendered experience” (76 minutes)

Post a question for class discussion on Moodle

9/5 7

Group Project

Housing Panel

Reflect on panel event. Submit on Moodle
9/6 8

Group Project

SYS Lecture

Reflect on lecture. Submit on Moodle

Paired group project work.

9/7 9

Group Project

YAC Panel

Reflect on YAC youth visit. Submit on Moodle

Paired group project work.

9/8 10

Group Project

Mid Block Presentations (Zoom)

Group Project
9/11 11

Group Project

Sign up for Refugee Simulation

Group Project
9/12 12

Group Project

Evening Refugee Simulation (6:30-8:30).

Refugee Simulation

Post a question for class discussion on Moodle

9/13 13 Group Project Work on Analysis Report
9/14 14

Lead Me Home

Handout One

Handout Two

Group Project

4 Approaches to Multiple-Race Questions

Lead Me Home Handout 3 (handed out) Source

Finish Analysis Report, due at 11:59pm via Moodle

9/15 15

Group Project

Project Visual In-Progress Meeting

Work on Group Project Visual

Lead Me Home Question Answers. Submit on Moodle.

9/18 16

Group Project Visual

Practice Presentations using Visuals

Review of analysis report

Finalize Group Project Visual

Submit visual file or files on Moodle.

Revise Analysis report.

9/19 17 SYS Showcase

Revise Analysis report

Fill out Group member survey on Moodle. Required.

9/20 18

Present to Waypoint

Course Evaluations

Revise Analysis report. Submit on Moodle by 3pm

Fill out Waypoint feedback survey on Moodle. Wait until after presentations.

Course Google Calendar:

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