Course title: Decolonizing Science
Course number: IDS 495 (001)/ NR 595 Spring 2024 – 3 credit hours
Time: Thursdays – 4:30 – 7:15 pm
Instructor: Dr. Madhusudan Katti
Course number: IDS 495 (001)/ NR 595 Spring 2024 – 3 credit hours
Time: Thursdays – 4:30 – 7:15 pm
Instructor: Dr. Madhusudan Katti
**This course is available to graduate students and advanced undergraduates. It has also been approved to meet History of Science or Philosophy of Science Breadth requirements for the Science, Technology, and Society major.**
Course overview:
Science occupies a high pedestal as our primary source of knowledge, despite rising science denialism. Yet Science remains rooted in Western European traditions aligned with a history of colonial appropriation of land and resources, and erasure of indigenous peoples and knowledge systems. This seminar course, led by an ecologist, will examine the colonial underpinnings of Science and the consequences of how it is practiced and taught, both for our understanding of the universe, and for the wellbeing of people struggling under the continuing legacies of colonial histories that have shaped our profoundly unjust and unequal world.
Course title: Feminist Futures
Course number: WGS/STS 315 (001) Spring 2024 – 3 credit hours
Time: T/TH – 1:30 – 2:45 pm
Instructor: Dr. Patsy Sibley
Course number: WGS/STS 315 (001) Spring 2024 – 3 credit hours
Time: T/TH – 1:30 – 2:45 pm
Instructor: Dr. Patsy Sibley
**This course has been approved to meet the STS Elective Breadth requirement for the Science, Technology, and Society major and has been approved to meet the Interdisciplinary Perspectives GEP.**
Course overview:
This course seeks to both analyze and disrupt dominant narratives of science, technology, and science fiction by exploring the possibilities of alternative futures as imagined by and with feminist communities and feminist thinkers. By examining critical technology studies, theories of feminist technoscience, and speculative and science fiction across media, we will work to interrogate how technologies have been used to create, sustain, or challenge systems of power and oppression and to imagine new possibilities.