Coordinator: Professor Michael Mandiberg

The Graduate Center

365 Fifth Avenue

New York, NY 10016

Email: itp@gc.cuny.edu

https://www.gc.cuny.edu/itp

FACULTY

Lisa Brundage, Colette Daiute, Ximena Gallardo, Matthew Gold, Carlos Hernandez, Alexandra Juhasz, Kimon Keramidas, Nerve Macaspac, Michael Mandiberg, Anthony Picciano, Lisa Rhody, Robert Robinson, Maura Smale, Christopher Stein, Joseph Ugoretz, Julie Van Peteghem, Lucas Waltzer

THE PROGRAM

The Interactive Technology and Pedagogy (ITP) Certificate Program provides students with the critical skills to reflect on and then design and implement technology in their research and teaching. The ITP program’s multidisciplinary approach draws on the discipline-based expertise of many doctoral faculty members and thereby builds a collective conversation about the broad implications of the use of technology in scholarship and pedagogy. The sequence of courses described below offers theoretical, historical, philosophical, and sociological perspectives on technology and pedagogy and their intersection with academic practices.

Curriculum and Course Description

The certificate program provides students with an interdisciplinary environment to gain theoretical, historical, philosophical, literary, and sociological knowledge on technology and pedagogy, and explore the implications of their intersection in the classroom, academic research, and scholarly publication. Students learn praxis-oriented methodologies for digital research and pedagogy and complete capstone projects under the mentorship of one of our doctoral faculty members, drawn from across the disciplines. ITP provides intellectual insights and technical training to prepare students for employment in the academy and beyond by advancing their skills as critical and creative makers and users of technology. While students learn about and experiment with new software applications, the program moves beyond functional technology training to generate a rigorous dialogue about technology in research and pedagogy.

SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS FOR THE CERTIFICATE IN THE INTERACTIVE TECHNOLOGY AND PEDAGOGY

Applicants to the Interactive Technology and Pedagogy Certificate Program who are not already enrolled in a doctoral or master's program at the Graduate Center may apply for admission. Requirements for admission are on the program’s website: www.gc.cuny.edu/itp.

The sequence of courses required for the certificate—which can be completed by students in two years and total 9 doctoral degree credits—is designed to provide a variety of historical, theoretical, political, and practical approaches to the connection among and between technology, academic research, and classroom pedagogy. The ITP Certificate Program relies on an interdisciplinary approach to these questions; questions that lead us to pursue solutions applicable to the humanities, the social sciences, and the physical and natural sciences.

First, two 3-credit core courses provide students with an overview of history and theory, academic practice, and pedagogy and practice. Second, in a series of noncredit lab sessions, students master relevant technical software and IT-design skills that allow them to develop new tools or rigorously evaluate existing IT tools for academic use; a minimum of 12 such noncredit lab sessions must be taken by students when they are enrolled in the Core 1 and Core 2 courses to complete and receive the ITP certificate. With permission of the Coordinator, ITP students may also take lab sessions to fulfill the certificate requirement while working on their Independent Study projects.

Courses

Core Courses

ITCP 70010 Interactive Technology and Pedagogy I: History and Theory

3 credits, 30 hours plus conferences and lab hours

ITCP 70020 Interactive Technology and Pedagogy II: Methods and Practice

3 credits, 30 hours plus conferences and lab hours

Prerequisite ITCP 70010

The Independent Study

ITCP 89010 Independent Study

3 credits

Department: Interactive Tech & Pedagogy