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Changing Life: Reading the Intersections of Gender, Race, Biology, and Literature

Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited StatesWGS.700
Free, no sign-up neededSpring 2017English
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In this course, students will develop their abilities to expose ways that scientific knowledge has been shaped in contexts that are gendered, racialized, economically exploitative, and hetero-normative. This happens through a sequence of four projects that concern: Interpretation of the cultural dimension of sciences Climate change futures Genomic citizenry Students’ plans for ongoing practice The course uses a Project-Based Learning format that allows students to shape their own directions of…

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