Anthropology 353 - SEM: TOPICS IN ANTHROPOLOGY

Topics course. This seminar explores the complex interaction between science, technology and society. Our aim is to examine how political, cultural and material conditions shape techno-scientific work and how science and technology, in turn, shape society. In doing so, we think critically about how scientific knowledge and artifacts are produced, by and for whom, and to what effect.  Course texts consider topics as diverse as laboratory space and practice; innovation and expertise; experimentation and tinkering; technology and the human; authority and governance, race, gender and embodiment; and emergenet publics and cybercultures.

Topic: Science, Technology & Society. Instructor permission. Not open to first-years, sophomores