This is a lab course, designed to give students a quarter-long opportunity to engage in sustained, collaborative research on a problem in Science, Technology and Society. For this iteration of the Identity and Intersectionality Lab, we will focus on neurodiversity and intersectionality. We will pair selected readings on neurodiversity, meaning the imperative to value and support a variety of cognitive strengths and challenges in educational, health, social, and occupational settings, with a group project that will attend to intersectional approaches to neurodiversity, meaning programs to affirm neurodiversity that also respond to the overlapping effects of racial and ethnic, class, and gender differences. Course readings and discussions will cover a variety of topics relevant to our group project, including the history of the disability rights movement and disability accommodations on college campuses, intersectional approaches to disability, critical approaches to social and political representation, social studies of health measurement techniques, and sociological theories of the life course.
Chloe Silverman, "SCTS 780: SPECIAL TOPICS: IDENTITY AND INTERSECTIONALITY LAB", contributed by Ali Kenner and Eliza Nobles, STS Infrastructures, Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography, last modified 20 August 2018, accessed 18 April 2024. https://stsinfrastructures.org/content/scts-780-special-topics-identity-and-intersectionality-lab
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This is a lab course, designed to give students a quarter-long opportunity to engage in sustained, collaborative research on a problem in Science, Technology and Society. For this iteration of the Identity and Intersectionality Lab, we will focus on neurodiversity and intersectionality. We will pair selected readings on neurodiversity, meaning the imperative to value and support a variety of cognitive strengths and challenges in educational, health, social, and occupational settings, with a group project that will attend to intersectional approaches to neurodiversity, meaning programs to affirm neurodiversity that also respond to the overlapping effects of racial and ethnic, class, and gender differences. Course readings and discussions will cover a variety of topics relevant to our group project, including the history of the disability rights movement and disability accommodations on college campuses, intersectional approaches to disability, critical approaches to social and political representation, social studies of health measurement techniques, and sociological theories of the life course.