| TTIT70 | Communication and gender, 3 ECTS credits. /Tema: Kommunikation och genus/ |
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Area of Education: Humanities/Social Science Subject area: Swedish/Gender Theory |
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| Advancement level
(A-D): B
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| Aim: The theme has two interrelated goals. Firstly, to give the student an understanding of how science and technology can be seen from a gender perspective; secondly, to develop the student?s skills and knowledge about argumentation presentation and rhetoric. |
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| Prerequisites: (valid for students admitted to programmes within which the course is offered) TTIT 14 or TTIT 29 The Engineer in Society. Note: Admission requirements for non-programme students usually also include admission requirements for the programme and threshhold requirements for progression within the programme, or corresponding. |
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| Organisation: The theme is given in the form of lectures, seminars and tutorials. |
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| Course contents: In the theme, how we speak about and describe technology and science, in both popular scientific and scientific contexts, is problemized. We discuss how this affects our conceptions of gender/sex. Discussions and analyses are based on historical examples of the situation for women and men in academia and society. The introduction to the gender perspective on science and technology is combined with exercises in rhetoric and argumentation. |
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| Course literature: Marja Vehviläinen (2000) - Gender and Information Technology - in Where do we go from here? Feminist Challenges to Information Technology (ed. Christina Mörtberg), pp 17-37. Dorothy Nelkin (1995) - The Culture of Scientific Journalism - in Selling Science: How the Press Covers Science and Technology, New York: W H Freeman. Constance Penley (1997) NASA/TREK: Popular Science and Sex in America. London: Verso. There will be more literature, details of which will be given when the course starts. |
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| Examination: | |||
| Oral examination Written report |
0,5 p 1,5 p |
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| One of two marks is awarded for the course: Pass or Fail. Compulsory attendance – 75% minimum at lectures and seminars. | |||
Course language is Swedish. Department offering the course: TEMA. Director of Studies: Johanna Forssell Examiner: Johanna Forssell Link to the course homepage at the department |
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