Course Schedule and Catalog

Department: Anthropology

Meeting: 1:00PM - 3:30PM W (26-AUG-2024 - 6-DEC-2024) 

Part of Term: Full Term

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Method of Instruction: Face to Face

Credit Hours: 3

 

Section Max Enrollment: 10

Section Enrolled: 3

Total Cross-list Max Enrollment: 20

Total Cross-list Enrolled: 4

Enrollment data as of: 19-JAN-2025 7:31AM

 

 

Final Exam: No Final Exam

 

Description: This course engages Black feminism as a foundation for science and technology studies (STS). STS is a field that focuses on how power is infused in how we create scientific knowledge, how we disseminate “objective” information, and how it materializes in the technology we build into our everyday lives. However, how might we better understand “science” through an intersectional framework that attends to race, gender, sexuality, and disability simultaneously? Drawing on critical methods of speculation, the course will address the following themes: the role of racism in social reproduction through the body from colonialism and slavery to contemporary genomics; humanism; the racialization of physical matter and space; and concluding with Afrofuturism. In addition to mobilizing the theories and concepts developed to bear witness to the particularity of Black womxns lived experience, this class has us consider what Black feminism can teach us about how to reckon with building a more with just and equitable world with science and technology against various oppressive forces. Cross-list: ANTH 619.