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| Detailed information |
| Original study plan |
Bachelor's programme Chemistry and Chemical Technology 2025W |
| Learning Outcomes |
Competences |
| Students acquire comprehensive knowledge in the central subject areas of gender studies in science and engineering. Students understand how science and technological development is entangled with changing meanings of gender and gender relations.
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| Skills |
Knowledge |
| Students are aquainted with approaches and methods of gender research in their specific areas. Students are familiar with important women scientists and women engineers in the past and in the present.
Winter term: A special focus lies on Life Sciences and Chemistry.
Summer term: A special focus lies on Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence.
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• Students are able to understand (k2), reflect (k4) and act responsibly (k3) within the specific gender structures of their disciplines.
• Students are able to present (k2) the knowledge acquired in the course in their own words in a written examination.
• Students are able to recognise (k1) and critically reflect (k4) on gender stereotypes and hierarchies in scientific theories, technological outcomes, products and practices.
• Students acquire intersectional gender competence (k3) important for working in diverse teams.
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| Criteria for evaluation |
Attendance and participation in discussion; reading of the assigned literature; written exam on the content of the course at the end of the semester.
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| Methods |
Research results are presented that unpack mechanisms and background assumptions of gender relations in science and engineering. Students are encouraged to pursue self-learning in this field. Several approaches to integrating aspects of gender and diversity in research and development in innovative ways will be discussed.
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| Language |
English |
| Study material |
- Waltraud Ernst/Ilona Horwath (eds.): Gender in Science and Technology. Interdisciplinary Approaches, Bielefeld: transcript 2014.
- Knut Sorensen/Wendy Faulkner/Els Rommes: Technologies of Inclusion. Gender in the Information Society, Trondheim: Tapir Academic Press 2011.
- Virginia Eubanks: Automating Inequality. How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police and Punish the Poor, New York: St. Martin’s Press 2018.
- Catherine D'Ignazio/Lauren F. Klein: Data Feminism, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press 2020
- Anne Fausto-Sterling: Sexing the Body. Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality, New York: Basic Books 2000.
- Susanne Lettow (ed.): Reproduction, Race, and Gender in Philosophy and the Early Life Sciences, Albany: State University of New York Press 2014.
- Londa Schiebinger: Plants and Empire. Colonial Bioprospecting in the Atlantic World, Cambridge MA: Harvard UP 2004.
- Deboleena Roy: Molecular Feminisms. Biology, Becomings, and Life in the Lab, Seattle: University of Washington Press 2018.
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| Changing subject? |
No |
| Further information |
The course is designed for students of the Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, but it can also be attended by incoming students who are interested in the field.
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| Corresponding lecture |
GS-TNE: KV Gender Studies TNF - Einführung (3 ECTS)
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