HD 6640

The Science and Politics of Gender in the Academy

Course Description

Course information provided by the 2025-2026 Catalog.

Designed for graduate students and select seniors who are interested in graduate study in scientific disciplines that focus on human behavior and social interaction. The purpose of the seminar is examine the science and politics in an academic career. The seminar has three goals: 1) to promote discussion, debate, and an eventual understanding of sociopolitical aspects of the academy, 2) to provide members with an opportunity to summon, integrate, and apply insights that they have acquired through readings and discussion as they analyze arguments from the standpoint of multiple social sciences, and 3) to integrate scholarship across disciplinary lines.

Prerequisites introductory statistics.

Distribution Requirements (CA-HE, KCM-HE, SBA-HE)

Last 4 Terms Offered (None)

Learning Outcomes

• Critique and evaluate information, design, and claims: interpret visual information; demonstrate quantitative reasoning and statistical inference; distinguish between objectivity and subjectivity.
• Apply multi-disciplinary perspectives: identify complex interactions between individuals and their environments; explain interactions within and between the natural, physical, and social sciences; manage diverse and changing social, technological, and material environments.
• Innovate in research: synthesize ideas; use research methods to generate knowledge; develop new practices; solve problems.
• Write, speak and use visual communications effectively: speak and write logically, clearly and persuasively; use effective visual communications; adapt communications to audience and goals.

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