Teaching: Understanding and Broadening the Images of Computing
Undergraduate Course 15-296
Spring Semester
Tuesday and Thursday, 3:00 - 4:20 p.m.
Units: 6 (mini)

Director, Women@SCS, and Co-Director, Women@IT, Carnegie Mellon

• OurCS -- a 3 day research-focused workshop at CMU for undergraduate women in the USA and abroad.
• Women@SCS
• SCS Representative for NCWIT and Pacesetters and AccessComputing
• TechNights -- Creative Technology Nights is a program focused on exposing middle and high school girls to creative technologies.
• TechNights Movie
• School of Computer Science Outreach Roadshow (demonstration version)
• "Adventures in Computing": Weekly Activities Sessions at SciTech School
  
  

School of Computer Science (SCS)

• School of Computer Science
• Computer Science Department
  
  

Research and Papers

Dr. Frieze gained her doctorate in the field of "Cultural Studies in Computer Science" from the School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University. Thesis title: "The Critical Role of Culture and Environment as Determinants of Women's Participation in Computer Science". Her research interests include the culture of computing, broadening participation in computing fields, diversity issues, gender myths and stereotypes.

• From Difference to Diversity: Including Women in the Changing Face of Computing, Carol Frieze and Jeria Quesenberry, Proceedings of the 44th SIGCSE ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education 2013
• Diversity or Difference? New Research Supports the Case for a Cultural Perspective on Women in Computing, Carol Frieze, Jeria Quesenberry, Elizabeth Kemp and Anthony Velaszquez, Journal of Science Education and Technology, September, 2011
• The Images of Computing: Engaging Undergraduates in the Broad Issues of Computer Science, Carol Frieze, Proceedings of the 42nd SIGCSE ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education 2011
• A Cultural Perspective on Gender Diversity in Computing, Lenore Blum, Carol Frieze, Orit Hazzan and Bernardine Dias, in Reconfiguring the Firewall: Recruiting Women to Information Technology across Cultures and Continents eds. by Carol J. Burger, Elizabeth G. Creamer, and Peggy S. Meszaros, AK Peters, Ltd., 2007
• Culture and Environment as Determinants of Women’s Participation in Computing: Revealing the ‘Women-CS Fit’”, Carol Frieze, Orit Hazzan, Lenore Blum and Bernardine Dias, Proceedings of the Thirty-Seventh SIGCSE ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education 2006
• Diversifying the Images of Computer Science: Carnegie Mellon Students Take on the Challenge! Carol Frieze and Emily Treat. Proceedings of the 2006 WEPAN conference.
• As the Culture of Computing Evolves, Similarity can be the Difference, Lenore Blum and Carol Frieze, Gender and IT issue of Frontiers, 26:1 2005
• In a More Balanced Computer Science Environment, Similarity is the Difference and Computer Science is the Winner, Lenore Blum and Carol Frieze, May 2005 edition of Computing Research News, Vol. 17/No. 3
• Diversifying the Images of Computer Science: Undergraduate Women take on the Challenge! Carol Frieze, Proceedings of the Thirty-Sixth SIGCSE ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 2005, p. 397-400
• Building an Effective Computer Science Student Organization: The Carnegie Mellon Women@SCS Action Plan by Carol Frieze and Lenore Blum, Inroads SIGCSE Bulletin Women in Computing; vol.34.no.2, 2002, June, p. 74-78

CREU (Collaborative Research Experience for Undergraduates)

• CREU Research Advisor 2009-2010 -- Cultural Attitudes Towards Computer Science: How do they Affect Women’s Representation in the Field?
• CREU Research Advisor 2004-2005 -- Motivation, Persistence and Success in Computer Science: What Can Computer Science Seniors Tell Us?
  
  

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