Gender,ScienceSpeculThinking

3 Credits · Level: Undergraduate

This course gives an introduction into the field of feminist science and technology studies. Students will learn the history of the tradition and how to incorporate Indigenous, feminist, trans, queer, speculative, and deconstructive methodologies to transform and produce new ways of scientific thinking, writing, and learning. We will explore and investigate hierarchies and networks of knowledge, from asking who has the power to create facts to how facts circulate to what gets left behind. Students will learn how to spot and question the way that gendered colonial constructs of knowledge legitimacy have shaped current realities of ethics, truth, and power, and how to incorporate alternative modes of knowledge creation through asking different questions, speculative fiction, and teasing out dimensions of connectivity between objects and worldmaking.