General Catalog 2024-25

Lecture, four hours. In popular imagination, science and technology are often viewed as fields of knowledge production critical to social progress and a cooperative future. This optimistic portrayal of technological advancement is also prominently in internal discourses amongst scientists, industry leaders, and science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) students. Yet a growing body of research, investigation, and first-person counts highlight varying ways modern science, technology, and engineering industries contribute to the degradation of changing environments, and exploit and harm global low-income and marginalized populations. Students learn critical frameworks—formulated through queer, radical feminist, and black analyses of science and technology studies—that destabilize sexual, gendered, racialized, anthropocentric, and able-bodied logics and hierarchies used to challenge and rethink knowledge production. Letter grading.