Teaching
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Explores knowledge, practices, culture and labor in engineering. Oriented in a critical standpoint, it engages in the theories and methods of science and technology studies (STS) to gain a comprehensive understanding of the cultural production of engineers, engineering and technology.
Science technology and society 4500
STS and Engineering Practice
Anthropology 393
Action Oriented Ethnography
Explores the reflexive “turn” in anthropology, and its effect on the form and purpose of ethnographic writing. Situated in critical race, science, technology and society (STS), queer and feminist praxis, it seeks to excavate and appreciate subjugated knowledge in social science.
Anthropology 460
Queer Anthropology
Evaluates how anthropology has been transformed by queer critiques of knowledge production. It interrogates the ideological, discursive and material aspects of embodied subjectivity in western culture, and its scientific categories and certainties.
Anthropology 401
Critical Medical Anthropology
Inquires into the ideological, cultural and material aspects of human well-being, roots of health inequalities, and the multi-scaled fields of power involved in both local and global health issues.
Anthropology 201
Cultural Anthropology
Examines how individual lives are shaped by broader social and cultural contexts, and how global forces impact the lived experience of people at a local level.
Women & Gender Studies/Ethnic Studies 350
Gender, Race, Culture, Science and Technology
Investigates the foundations of western science and technology, the role of capitalism in scientific knowledge production and the power dynamics involved in making western science appear to be the only valid form of inquiry. Relies on feminist and postcolonial critiques of science to envision the transformation of the powers of technology to advance social justice.
Science Technology and society 456
Advanced Project-Based Learning in Science, Technology & Society
Examines the use of appropriate technologies to address the effects of climate change in California, and the Pacific Islands.