Course Meetings
Lecture/discussion: 2 sessions / week; 1.5 hours / session
Prerequisites
There are no prerequisites for this course.
Grading
- Two papers: 60%
- Oral presentation: 10%
- Class participation: 30%
- For MIT students: Punctual attendance is obligatory. There is no final.
Calendar
Concepts
Session 1: Introduction
Session 2: Definitions: Sex and Gender
Session 3: Definitions: Race
Session 4: Definitions: Intersectionality and Science
Session 5: How to Think about Science
Part 1: Histories of Race
Session 6: Pre-scientific Conceptions of Race
Session 7: Nineteenth-Century Racial Science
Session 8: Eugenics
Session 9: Materiality of Race
Session 10: Racial Classifications at the Intersection of Law and Science
Part 2: Histories of Sex/Gender
Session 11: Making Sex
First paper due
Session 12: Sex, Gender, Animals
Session 13: Gender, Sex, and Race in Nineteenth-Century Medicine
Session 14: Sex in the Natural Order
Session 15: Gender and Race, Conjoined
Part 3: Sex/Gender, Race, and Careers in Science
Session 16: Sex, Gender, Scientific Careers, and Epistemology
Session 17: Race, Ethnicity, Scientific Careers, and Epistemology I
Session 18: Race, Ethnicity, Scientific Careers, and Epistemology II
Part 4: Sex/Gender, Race, and Science Now
Session 19: Sex Cells and Sex Sells
Session 20: Sexuality, Hetero, Homo, and Beyond
Session 21: Race and Medicine Now
Session 22: Reprogramming Race I
Session 23: Remixing Sex
Sessions 24–26: Class Presentations and Sum Up
Second paper due
