Organized into weekly topics, the course covered how the Divide manifested on a global
scale, and how the phenomenon affected the following demographics: age, gender, race
and ethnicity, (dis)ability, prison populations, and more. Along with a midterm and a
final exam, the students also had to craft a handbook, composed of ten chapters and
with each chapter corresponding roughly to one week and one topic. In these chapters,
students submitted their class notes (as evidence of their participation), and their
contributions for the “Digital Divide in the News” segment, where students found a
current news or magazine article that discussed issues of information and technology
inequity. The purpose of this brief assignment was to train students to recognize the
Digital Divide in “real life” settings. Lastly, students chronicled both their responses to
assigned course readings, and reported on their field experiences while working with
their Community Partner.