After successful completion of the course, students are able to...
Provide an overview of the subject area of technology and gender. After the course, students should be able to establish references to their own subject discipline. The relevance of the category gender in technology is made recognisable and visible on different levels in and through the course. The lecture provides an overview of the current state of the debate on gender in engineering. Using selected examples, central fields of research are then discussed and the topic is approached from three sides:
- "Women in Science and Technology": structural and symbolic barriers for women in these fields, proposed solutions for entry and qualification.
- "Science and Technology of Gender": production and determination of gendering and gender differences in technological artefacts.
- "Gender in Science and Technology": meta-analytical approaches to research practice and methodology in the technical sciences, mechanisms of gendering in technical epistemological interests, theorisations, methods, interpretations of results and research practices.
"This course is part of the basic module of the additional certificate "Gender and Diversity Competence". More information about the certificate can be found here."
With the Gender and Diversity Competence Certificate, graduates demonstrate their competence in taking gender and diversity aspects into account.
A prerequisite for issuing the certificate is the completion of courses from the following list in the amount of at least 16 ECTS.
Three courses amounting to 7 ECTS must be completed; for the remaining 9 ECTS, all courses from the "Optional Courses" list can be selected.
A list of courses can be found here.
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