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GLOS 3305 is also offered in Spring 2023
GLOS 3305 is also offered in Fall 2021
Spring 2023 | GLOS 3305 Section 001: Science for Sale: Environment, Capital, and Medicine (65396)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Enrollment Requirements:
- soph or jr or sr
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
Tue,
Thu 11:15AM - 12:30PM
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 110
- Enrollment Status:
Open (25 of 35 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- This class uses a social justice lens to explore the interrelations of scientific discoveries, unequal global economies, and commodification. We will look at practices, new technologies, and policies that are trenchant for the negative impacts they have on environments broadly defined, and for human and non-human populations. We will ask how these practices, technologies, and policies - and the social and economic contexts that produce them - variably impact the health, well being, and valuation of particular populations. In a series of interconnected themes, we will examine what factors produce food insecurity and for whom; where and why pollution of resources such as water happens; the history and current state of antibiotic resistance; climate change and its various effects; and how new technologies can be life-saving and life-denying according to the ways national and global policies determine who gains access and who does not. We will also look at the innovative ways grassroots movements tackle issues confronting particular groups, what constitutes positive social change and by whose definition, and potential ways forward. Final projects focus on website construction or policy documents that have application beyond the classroom. Prereq: soph or jr or sr
- Class Notes:
- 10 seats reserved for GLOS majors/minors.
- Class Description:
- This course examines topics in science, medicine, and the environment that shape everyday lives, change practices, contour perceptions of ourselves and others, and open possibilities as well as new perils. We will use a social justice lens to examine climate change, health care, environmental regulations, food justice, and water politics among other topics, while asking questions of who benefits and who suffers with each new policy and its myriad impacts. Class projects will be collaborative and hands on, and the materials we cover will include news accounts as well as scholarly analyses, films, reports, and eyewitness accounts.
- Who Should Take This Class?:
- Those interested in the intersections of science and society and social justice.
- Learning Objectives:
- Critical thinking, using different materials as texts to analyze, utilizing various methods for project development.
- Grading:
- A-F
- Exam Format:
- Midterm, final
- Class Format:
- Discussion based
- Workload:
- Approximately 2-3 hours per week.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/65396/1233
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 12 April 2017
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