This roundtable discussion
explores the scope, structure, and practices of online graduate programs for
the 21st Century. UW-Parkside has developed a new Master’s in Professional
Communication online graduate program that is student-centered, offers feminist-centric
online coursework, includes high-impact practices, and focuses on equity, diversity, and
inclusion of non-traditional graduate students. The program incorporates feminist
pedagogical tenets such as: promoting reflexivity, concern for materiality,
treating students as co-educators, presenting knowledge as intersectional and
constructed, honoring diversity and lived experience through intersectional
approaches, cultivating self-care and boundaries and feminist pedagogy in an
online environment. The roundtable features four faculty and one student.