01-target_audience.Rmd

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# Audience and Tiered Structure {-}

These modules are made to provide opportunities for students, especially **underserved and minority students**, at higher education facilities to explore and critically think about environmental justice data using EJScreen and other tools.   

We intend for these modules to be discipline agnostic, so that students of multiple disciplines and majors can participate in environmental data science. We have also designed these modules with under-resourced instructors in mind, such as those teaching at Minority Serving Institutions, community colleges, primarily undergraduate universities, and historically women’s colleges.  

In order to provide for a range of experience levels, we have created **three tiers** of educational content. The tier 1 module targets the lower division level undergraduate students, across a variety of disciplines (e.g., biology, social science).   

Tiers 2 and 3 will target more advanced students, potentially junior and senior undergraduate students, graduate students or students completing a research capstone. Tiers 2 and 3 will also assume some background knowledge in data science. Finally, we have included additional follow-on learning objectives for students interested in social science disciplines or socially engaged art. We encourage instructors to gauge their students’ interests and mix objectives from the different tiers and disciplines.