FW 222 (FW 295 Special Topics) Fall 2026
Citizen and Community Science
2 credits, GEP Interdisciplinary Perspectives
T 8:30-9:20 am | F 12:50-3:35
Instructor: Dr. Caren Cooper
This course includes lecture and lab (field and computational labs). Students will examine the scope of participatory sciences spanning citizen and community sciences for answers to question like:
- How are trustworthy scientific discoveries achieved in participatory sciences?
- What are the risks and benefits of AI technologies in citizen science?
- When can the power of local lay knowledge lead to action?
The course takes an optimistic yet critical perspective that collaboration between science and society will lead to a stronger democracy and governance of natural resources. This course is an elective for the Interdisciplinary Applied Data Science Minor. There is an option to pair this course with 1-credit DSA 295-002 Citizen Science Data Analytics.