CS-EV0007 - Gender & Technology, Lectures, 6.5.2024-3.6.2024

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Please note! Course description is confirmed for two academic years, which means that in general, e.g. Learning outcomes, assessment methods and key content stays unchanged. However, via course syllabus, it is possible to specify or change the course execution in each realization of the course, such as how the contact sessions are organized, assessment methods weighted or materials used.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

Upon successful completion of this course, students…

  • understand that technologies and scientific facts are not neutral and they do not evolve according to an inherent technological or scientific logic, but are shaped by diverse social factors including gender.
  • are able to give examples of the ways that the relationship between gender and technology has been analysed throughout the history of feminist movement and science and technology studies.
  • are able to critically evaluate promises and pitfalls of new technologies to diverse groups of people.
  • have skills and abilities to approach, read and discuss academic texts with others.

Credits: 5

Schedule: 06.05.2024 - 03.06.2024

Teacher in charge (valid for whole curriculum period):

Teacher in charge (applies in this implementation): Risto Sarvas

Contact information for the course (applies in this implementation):

CEFR level (valid for whole curriculum period):

Language of instruction and studies (applies in this implementation):

Teaching language: English. Languages of study attainment: English

CONTENT, ASSESSMENT AND WORKLOAD

Content

  • valid for whole curriculum period:

    Gender & Technology course is a space for collaborative learning and imagining as well as a facilitated reading group, where students can develop critical skills for analysing science, technologies and the process of design–as well as their own practice–through a gendered lens. The course consists of pre-readings (e.g. academic texts), facilitated group discussions as well as group and individual work. In the course, we use LARP (live action role-play) as a method of learning and imagining alternative technofutures and -pasts.

DETAILS

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FURTHER INFORMATION

Further Information

  • valid for whole curriculum period:

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