| Detailed information |
| Pre-requisites |
(*)Modul "Einführung in das wiss. Arbeiten und Methoden"; LVA "Themen und Theorien der Kulturwissenschaften I“ ODER LVA "Themen und Theorien der Kulturwissenschaften II"
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| Original study plan |
Bachelor's programme Cultural Studies 2012W |
| Objectives |
Students get an overview on interdisciplinary accounts in the cultural studies of science and technology development. Students get an overview on different accounts in gender research in science and technology.
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| Subject |
The lecture gives an overview on central debates and results of gender research in natural and material sciences and engineering. Topics, theories and technological artefacts get analysed, as for example the co-production of gender and technology /science will be discussed: how social ideas on gender become integrated in theories and methods of science and technological development and vice versa.
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| Criteria for evaluation |
Presence and participation in discussion; reading of the selected literature; written exam on the content of the course at the end.
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| Methods |
Visual and audio presentations of international experts get discussed; preparation necessary.
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| Language |
English |
| Study material |
Knut Sorensen/Wendy Faulkner/Els Rommes: Technologies of Inclusion. Gender in the Information Society, Trondheim: Tapir Academic Press 2011 http://genderandset.open.ac.uk/index.php/genderandset/article/view/252/415;
Anne Fausto-Sterling: Sex/Gender. Biology in a Social World, New York/London: Routledge 2012;
Waltraud Ernst (Hg.): Geschlecht und Innovation. Gender Mainstreaming im Techno-Wissenschaftsbetrieb, Berlin: Lit Verlag 2010;
Jutta Weber/Corinna Bath (Hg.): Turbulente Körper, soziale Maschinen. Feministische Studien zur Technowissenschaftskultur, Opladen: Leske + Budrich 2003.
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| Changing subject? |
Yes |
| Further information |
The lecture is organised in connection with the course of the same title.
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