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COM ARTS 336

RACE, GENDER, AND TECHNOLOGY

3 credits.

Explores and interrogates the historical and contemporary connections and between race, gender, and technology. Attention will be paid to the ways media and technology construct - and are constructed by - social, economic, political, and cultural formations of race and gender. Explores an array of social issues and challenges as well as a variety of media, technology, information and communication forms, practices, and systems. Connects the topics of critical race, feminist, and queer studies with the study of technology, with an emphasis on studies of digital technologies and cultures.

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Requisites: Junior standing Course Designation: Core GenEd - Social & Behavioral Science Breadth - Humanities or Social Science Level - Advanced L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Learning Outcomes: 1. Explain key concepts in the study of race, gender, and technology. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Demonstrate through oral and written work the ability to analyze and interpret intersecting relationships of power in studies of technology. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Examine historical and theoretical links between issues of race and gender relating to technology. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Apply feminist analysis to studies of technology. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Analyze materials from an interdisciplinary perspective, using critical tools drawn from a variety of methodologies. Audience: Graduate 6. Synthesize and apply course content to individual academic research and thesis interests. Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Explain key concepts in the study of race, gender, and technology. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Demonstrate through oral and written work the ability to analyze and interpret intersecting relationships of power in studies of technology. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Examine historical and theoretical links between issues of race and gender relating to technology. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Apply feminist analysis to studies of technology. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Analyze materials from an interdisciplinary perspective, using critical tools drawn from a variety of methodologies. Audience: Graduate 6. Synthesize and apply course content to individual academic research and thesis interests. Audience: Graduate

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