Special Topics: Race, Gender, Science, and Technology

WMST 689-203, Stacked with WMST 391

 

Course description:

Women and minorities are still underrepresented in science and engineering.  To better understand this phenomenon this course sets up a dialogue among practicing women scientists, engineers, and social scientists from multiple perspectives who have been examining the ways social assumptions about gender and race can be constructed into scientific practice and outcomes.  Goals of the course include understanding how constructions of difference are created in scientific, biomedical, and technological practice in order to contribute to the creation of gender and race neutral knowledge production and work environments.