Feminist STS

When I arrived at UCT I was handed two PG courses to teach. In shaping the content of those, I kept coming back to the ways that every course we teach could be a STS course. Development is shaped by the stories of science and society, identity is made and remade through science-society knots.  This is why a space dedicated to teaching this field is such a treat and also an exercise in restraint and curatorship. Our first iterations of the course outline tried to think about the ways we could take you all on a guided overview of the field of STS. Our first motivation to faculty is captured in an image below. I have also included a screenshot so you can see one of the very early drafts of our course outline. We only have six weeks where we can be physically co-present in a seminar though, and Amrita and I have taken the leap to, with you, to move away from the usual weekly thematic course design. We have asked each of you to choose a book from our selection and to be our guide through yo