CSCI 315 - Introduction to Human-Centered Security
Undergraduate course, Oberlin College, 2024
Taught Spring & Fall 2024. This course is an introduction to the field of human-centered security to upper-level CS majors, focusing on basic empirical methods in computer science, fundamental security and privacy concepts, and reading a wide variety of relevant papers. This was the first course that I developed on my own, with significant inspiration from Michelle Mazurek’s version of this course at the graduate level.
In Fall 2024, I switched to a collaborative grading model, where instead of giving numerical grades, I exclusively gave qualitative feedback. Students decided their grade with my help at the end of the semester after reviewing a portfolio of their work. I was surprised to see students were actually more engaged and did more work than the previous semester, not less!