ClassInfo - Spring 2018 Gender, Women, & Sexuality Std Classes

Spring 2018 | GWSS 3203W Section 001: Blood, Bodies and Science (51225)

Instructor(s): Michelle Garvey
Nina Medvedeva (TA)
E Ornelas, MA (TA)
Class Component:: Lecture
Credits:: 3 Credits
Grading Basis:: Student Option
Instructor Consent:: No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:: In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:: UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Times and Locations:: Regular Academic Session

01/16/2018 - 05/04/2018

Mon, Wed 02:30PM - 03:45PM

UMTC, East Bank

Blegen Hall 10
Enrollment Status:: Closed (120 of 120 seats filled)
Also Offered:: (Tentative) Spring 2025
(Tentative) Spring 2024
(Tentative) Spring 2023
(Tentative) Summer 2022
(Tentative) Spring 2022
(Tentative) Summer 2021

Course Catalog Description:: Ways in which modern biology has been site of conflict about race/gender. Race/gender demographics of scientific professions.
Class Description:: This course aims to introduce students to the field of feminist science studies, which analyzes how techno/science re/produces both liberatory and oppressive relations between and across species, genders, sex/ualities, races, abilities, and classes. It is an interdisciplinary course that will employ critical theories and histories, scientific data, popular cultural artifacts, and technology to examine the relationships between science and its social, political, and natural cultural contexts. The methodological point of the course is to familiarize students with scientific controversies, and to help you read both science articles and their assessments critically. The substantive point of the course is to make students aware of how feminist science studies restructures the fields of critical theory and scientific practice. We will traverse an array of nonlinear topics for their ethical, epistemological, sociological, and material implications, which I hope will pique your curiosity and engender new ways of thinking, creating, and transforming the sciences.
Textbooks:: https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/51225/1183
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:: 31 July 2013

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