Work in Progress Seminar

Gender and the making of Computer Scientists in Singapore

Samantha Breslin

13th March 2014, 6pm

First Floor Common Lounge

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As students we are trained in particular skills, values, and behaviors. University computer science programs such as the one at NUS aim to train students in logical reasoning, computer programming, design analysis of computing algorithms, and professional ethics. How do students experience this learning process? To what extent is this learning “successful,” by what measure, and with what goal? And how is gender a part of this process? Based on my ongoing ethnographic research on computing at NUS and in Singapore more generally, I will explore the values, menaings, and significances students and educators attribute to learning computer science. I will also discuss how gender is made is made both relevant and irrelevant to different facets of learning and teaching computer science.

Samantha Breslin, PhD candidate

Department of Anthropology, Memorial University of Newfoundland

Research attachment, Department of Sociology, NUS