Syllabi on the Web for Women- and Gender-Related Courses

Last updated: July 12, 2006

Science, Math, and Technology

The following are syllabi for women- and gender-related courses in Science, Math, and Technology. Courses that make substantial use of the Internet carry the designation ++; those making at least some use carry the designation +.

Biology and Gender (WS 530): (Univ. of Wisconsin)
Biology and Gender (WS 530): Caitilyn Allen (Univ. of Wisconsin)
Biology of Women: Luz P. Mangurian (Towson Univ.)
bodies + machines: interrogating gender + technology in the digital age (COMS 642F): Mary Flanagan (Concordia University, Canada)
++ Cybergrrls and Wired Women: Gender and Information Technology (WMST 390A): Sandra Shattuck (Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore County)
++ Digital Amazons, Cyborgs, and Wired Women: Gender, Identity, and New Information Technologies (INDS 502Q): Mary Bryson (Univ. of British Columbia)
Feminism and Science Studies: Laura Kay and Afsaneh Najmabadi (Barnard College)
Feminism, Gender, and Science (WS 1250): Banu Subramaniam (Harvard Univ.)
Feminist Science Studies for Scientists (WST 6935/ZOO 6927): M. L. Wayne (Univ. of Florida)
+ From Madame Marie Curie to Agent Dana Scully: Role of Gender in Science and Technology (FYS 172): Sharon L. Stephenson (Gettysburg College)
+ Gender and Computerization (L597): Susan Herring (Indiana University)
+ Gender and (Physical) Science: Amy Bug (Swarthmore College)
Gender and Science: Audre Brokes (Haverford College)
++ Gender and Science: Karen Rader (Sarah Lawrence College)
+ Gender and Science (History 16-543-01/Women's Studies 04-543-01): Elizabeth Green Musselman (Southwestern Univ.)
Gender and Science: Karen Johnson and Valerie Lehr (St. Lawrence Univ.)
++ Gender and Technology (DMS 415, 515): Mary Flanagan (SUNY, Buffalo)
+ Gendered Techno-Culture (WGST 270): Ann Marie Nicolosi (The College of New Jersey)
Gendered Technoculture: Sex, Lies, Videotape, and Cyberspace (WMST 320): Renae Bredin (Calif. State Univ. at Fullerton)
++ Gender, Identity, and the Information Superhighway: Feminist and Queer Visibility on the Net (SWMS 499): John Waiblinger and Ruth Wallach (Univ. of Southern California)
++ Gendernauts in a Contested Zone: Exploring Gender Identity Media Art in Times of Ongoing Wars of Desire and Technology: Verena Kuni (Univ. of Mainz [Germany])
Gender, Science, and Technology (History of Science 216): Donald deB. Beaver (Williams College)
Gender, Science, and Technology (HTS 6110): (Georgia Tech)
++ Gender, Technology, and Computer Culture: Sherry Turkle (MIT)
++ Gender, Technology, and Education (CT 567): Judy Hansen-Childers (Thomas College)
Gender, Technology, and Information (GRS 390J): Hillary Hart and Philip Doty (Univ. of Texas at Austin)
Great Women of Science (GEO 499H/599): Dawn Wright (Oregon State Univ.)
Historical Issues of Gender, Science and Technology (STS/FGSS 640): Suman Seth (Cornell Univ.)
+ History of Women in Science, Technology, and Medicine (HIST 380): Amy Bix (Iowa State Univ.)
+ Introduction to Feminist Science Studies: Astrid Schrader (Univ. of California, Santa Cruz)
+ The Man-Made Woman: Technology, Race, and Women's Bodies in the 19th and 20th Century U.S. (Women's Studies 253-003): Cari M. Carpenter (Univ. of Michigan)
Mathematics and Gender (EDU 745): Helen M. Doerr (Syracuse Univ.)
+ Mathematics, Gender, and Culture (MAT 391): John Kellermeier (Tacoma Community College)
+ Race, Gender, and Science (WOST 297B): Banu Subramaniam (Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst)
+ Science and Technology in Women's Lives (WS 595): Pat Huckle (San Diego State Univ.)
Science, Technology, and Gender (Anthropology 132): Sarah S. Jain (Stanford University)
Seminar on Gender and Science (WOM 393): Angela N. H. Creager (Princeton Univ.)
++ Wired Women, CyberChicks, and Surfer Girls: The Literature of Feminist Cyberculture: Dene Grigar (Texas Woman's Univ.)
Women and New Information Technologies (CMNS 486): Ellen Balka (Simon Fraser Univ., Canada)
+ Women and Science (HUMN 130-01): Elaine Klett and Bud Luithle (Brookdale Community College)
Women and Science: Nilhan Gunasekera and Holly Hassel (Univ. of Wisconsin - Marathon County)
++ Women and Technology (WS 30): E. Carr Everbach (Swarthmore College)
+ Women and Technology (WS 483/SI 513): Bob Frost (Univ. of Michigan)
+ Women and Technology (WMST 3531): Krista Scott-Dixon (York Univ. [Canada])
Women, Bodies, Technology (WS166): Verena Conley (Harvard Univ.)
Women, Gender, and Science (HSci5050): Sally Gregory Kohlstedt (Univ. of Minnesota)
+ Women, Gender and Science (IDNM/WMST 307): M. Paz Galupo and Gail E. Gasparich (Towson Univ.)
+ Women in Modern Science & Technology (HIS 4528-001): Jeffrey Johnson (Villanova Univ.)
+ Women in Scientific and Environmental Professions (FOR 496-10): Diane Kuehn et al. (SUNY College of Environmental Science & Forestry)
Women in Science (Physics 380): Heidi L. K. Manning (Concordia College)
Women in Science (EDUC/WOMS 4325): Ashley Campbell (Univ. of Texas at Arlington)
+ Women in Science and Engineering (Women's Studies/Zoology 383): Eugenia Farrar et al. (Iowa State Univ.)
+ Women in Science and Technology (First Year Seminar): Martha Myers (Kennesaw State Univ.)
+ Women in Science, Medicine, and Engineering (GST 1990): Marsha L. Richmond (Wayne State Univ.)
Women, Society, and Radiation Science (IDNM 309): Lev Ryzhkov (Towson Univ.)
Women, Technology, and Education (ED:P&L 853): Suzanne Damarin (Ohio State Univ.)
Women, Technology, and Society (SES 2999): Alyson E. King (Univ. of Toronto [Canada])

See also Anthropology of Science and Women, Ecology and Development, in ANTHROPOLOGY; Women and Men in the Engineering Workplace and Women in Business, Technology, and Engineering Leadership, in BUSINESS; The Digital Divide: Gender, Technology, and Education, in EDUCATION; Law, Science & Public Policy: Issues of Reproductive Technologies & Genetics, in LAW; Representing Female Bodies: Feminist Novels, Feminist Theory, and 20th-Century Science and Medicine and Studies in Romanticism, Gender, and Technology, in LITERATURE IN ENGLISH; Feminist Challenges to Positivism and Feminist Epistemology and the Philosophy of Science in PHILOSOPHY; Gender and Technology, in POLITICAL SCIENCE/INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS; Mentoring, Gender, and Technology in PSYCHOLOGY; Scientific Perspectives on Sex and Gender, in SEXUALITY; and Electronic Resources in Women's Studies: An Introduction for Scholars, Activists, and Educators and Introduction to Women's Studies: Science/Technology Focus in WOMEN'S STUDIES.

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