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This seminar introduces frameworks for grappling with questions around research integrity in the world of fast-moving, high-tech, transnational, financialized scientific knowledge production. Topics include peer review, the replicability crisis, industry funding of science...

Why are women well represented in some fields of scientific study but not others? How do gender beliefs influence the content of scientific knowledge? How is gender encoded in the practices and norms of science? This course explores the intersection of gender and science...

This course supports the writing of the junior paper through seminar discussions and directed reading in small-group tutorials. In the seminar portion of the course, students discuss feminist methodologies across the humanities, social sciences, and life sciences through...

This upper-level seminar examines how Western medical knowledge, practices, and institutions define female health and normality and manage diseased and gender-variant female bodies. We will explore how medicine conceives of the female body as a medical problem or mystery and...

This interdisciplinary graduate seminar provides an introduction to central texts, theories, and research methods in scholarship on gender and science. Students will gain a foundation in the historical development of feminist science studies and encounter fundamental and...

This seminar has two aims. First, it offers a long view of the intellectual history of the Western sciences of human heredity and reproduction from Aristotle to the mid-twentieth century. Participants will gain a broad understanding of the history of thought and scientific...

This seminar supports graduate students in becoming feminist scholars. The focus is twofold: research methodology and professional development. Readings, discussions, and assignments are designed to help students identify research strategies suited to the questions they wish...

Evolutionary theories of sex and gender and central controversies in human evolutionary biology from Darwin to the present. Topics include debates over the theory of sexual selection and the evolutionary basis of monogamy, sexual preference, physical attraction, rape...

How have the life sciences been transformed by the completion of the human genome projects and the arrival of whole-genome technologies? Joining "postgenomic" assessments of the genome projects, this seminar examines the history and contemporary practice of genomics from a...

This seminar examines historical, philosophical, and social dimensions of science through the lens of gender. Students will pursue independent projects as well as explore methods in interdisciplinary and feminist pedagogy through the development of a General Education course...

Joining "postgenomic" assessments of the genome projects, this seminar examines the history and contemporary practice of genomics from a multidisciplinary perspective. Topics include the role of technology, government funding, private industry, and race, gender, and...

The objective of this course is twofold: First, the course will provide a feminist analysis of methods and methodologies as intellectual frameworks within the social sciences, sciences, and humanities. We will focus on how feminist scholars challenge dominant theories of...