First-Year Seminar: Feminist and Queer Science and Technology Studies

WOMEN, GENDER, AND SEXUALITY STUDIES 106


This course will introduce students to key concepts and ideas emerging from the fields of feminist and queer science and technology studies. Science and scientific practice are commonly understood to proceed from a neutral, objective perspective aimed at producing universal truths. Similarly, technological innovation is understood to be an unquestioned good for human development. Feminist and queer thinkers have critiqued these views along epistemological, methodological, and socio-political lines. They have consistently pointed to both the gaps in scientific knowledge production and the risks of uncritical technological development for reproducing marginalization and oppression. At the same time, feminist and queer thinks have critically imagined the possibilities of both science and technology as potential forces for addressing social injustice. We will survey a number of these interventions while considering how this work might inform our present contexts. Course is for first-year, non-transfer students only. Waitlist managed by dept.
Course Attributes: EN H; FYS; BU Hum; BU BA; AS HUM; AS SC

Section 01

First-Year Seminar: Feminist and Queer Science and Technology Studies - 01
INSTRUCTOR: Tamsin Kimoto
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