Hmmm, interestingly there is a first year unit on Car Culture at Stanford University run by an Assistant Professor Sarah Jain in the program for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology.
Come on Australian universities! We need a car cultures unit somewhere!
Hmmm…
It could be incorporated into an existing subject somewhere. You should write it up and propose it (and yrself as lecturer of course).
Shannon, this is exactly one part of academia that one does not receive classes on. I would not have the slighest idea how to go about this. I can imagine the list of readings for the unit. I can imagine the content of lectures (this bit is easy cause I have already written one and started working on a few others) and basic outline of the unit. The institutional dimension of it is more than problematic!?!? I don’t even know who I would speak to about organising it? Any tips?
i guess it’s a matter of familiarising yrself with the existing subjects/courses that are out there and how it might fit in. then doing the requisite networking to make it happen. cs isn’t really my scene, so i can’t be of direct help, but i’m sure you have an idea of whom you might talk with at different institutions. and it’s the sort of thing that conference schmoozing is for, no?