Grad 202: Racism in Science [Fall 2025]

Grad 202: Racism in Science [Fall 2024]

Grad 202: Racism in Science [Fall 2023]

Grad 202: Racism in Science

Grad 202: Racism in Science [Fall 2021]

Grad 202: Racism in Science [Fall 2022]

Course Overview:

This introductory course provides the historical background of systemic racism in scientific research.  It explores the relationship between notions of race and science and how scientific research has been informed by and perpetuates anti-Black racism.  This course also examines the impact of bias and a lack of diversity in science and ways in which to address these deficiencies. Students will learn the principles of social justice-oriented scientific research and its potential. 


The centrality of anti-Black racism.  How do we avoid confusion of the nature of this course.  This is a course where we are addressing anti-Black racism in science and scientific research. “What about-isms”  This is about training students that once of the logic behind centrality of anti-Black racism.  Ownership in their own learning


Including other groups - how is it relative to science and to their lives


Relativism


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Course Objectives:

·  Employ the logic of the centrality of anti-Black racism to racial inequities in science

Execute the principles of social justice-oriented scientific research.

·  Analyze how scientific research can naturalize racial inequalities.

·  Identify specific historical examples of anti-black racism in scientific research.

·       Describe how implicit bias and lack of diversity undermine science.