Course Info: CSI-0231
| Course | CSI-0231 Queer Fem Sci. Studies |
| Long Title | Queer Feminist Science Studies Research Practicum |
| Term | 2020S |
| Note(s) |
Satisfies Distribution Textbook information |
| Meeting Info | Franklin Patterson Hall 106 on M,W from 10:30-11:50 |
| Faculty | Angela Willey |
| Capacity | 16 |
| Available | 9 |
| Waitlist | 0 |
| Distribution(s) |
Power, Community and Social Justice |
| Cumulative Skill(s) | Independent Work Multiple Cultural Perspectives Writing and Research |
| Additional Info | Students are expected to spend at least six to eight hours a week of preparation and work outside of class time. |
| Description | This course will introduce and explore themes in Queer Feminist Science Studies. Among the central questions of this class are: What is queer feminism? What is science studies? How is the study of science important to queer feminist critical and worlding work? How do we understand the boundaries between critiquing and practicing science? What does it mean to read queer/feminist theory as a site of knowledge production about biology's proper objects? What sorts of methodologies can help us to know our worlds beyond the nature/culture binary? What might an interdisciplinary biology look like? Students will gain hands-on research experience in "queer feminist science studies" through collaboration with the professor and one another and by applying the conceptual and methodological tools explored throughout the semester in the development of independent projects related to their own interests. The class with be experimental and research-intensive. Previous coursework in science studies and/or critical theory helpful. Because Covid-19 took us away from campus after spring break, the last few weeks of class were devoted to two pursuits: one, using what we had learned in class to frame questions about and analyses of the pandemic, and, two, workshopping individual research projects each week. |