Changing Life: Reading the Intersections of Gender, Race, Biology, and Literature
WGS.700 · Women's and Gender Studies · Graduate · Spring 2017
Prof. Mary Baine Campbell, Prof. Peter Taylor
<p>In this course, students will develop their abilities to expose ways that scientific knowledge has been shaped in contexts that are gendered, racialized, economically exploitative, and hetero-normative. This happens through a sequence of four projects that concern:</p> <ol> <li>Interpretation of the cultural dimension of sciences</li> <li>Climate change futures</li> <li>Genomic citizenry</li> <li>Students’ plans for ongoing practice</li> </ol> <p>The course uses a Project-Based Learning form…
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