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070283 UE Methodological Course - History of Science and Gender History (2022W)

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 7 - Geschichte
Continuous assessment of course work
Moodle

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Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).

Details

max. 25 participants
Language: German

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

Meetings will be held on-site as far as pandemic-related possible.

  • Monday 10.10. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum 16, Kolingasse 14-16, OG02
  • Monday 17.10. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum 16, Kolingasse 14-16, OG02
  • Monday 24.10. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum 16, Kolingasse 14-16, OG02
  • Monday 31.10. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum 16, Kolingasse 14-16, OG02
  • Monday 07.11. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum 16, Kolingasse 14-16, OG02
  • Monday 14.11. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum 16, Kolingasse 14-16, OG02
  • Monday 21.11. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum 16, Kolingasse 14-16, OG02
  • Monday 28.11. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum 16, Kolingasse 14-16, OG02
  • Monday 05.12. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum 16, Kolingasse 14-16, OG02
  • Monday 12.12. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum 16, Kolingasse 14-16, OG02
  • Monday 09.01. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum 16, Kolingasse 14-16, OG02
  • Monday 16.01. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum 16, Kolingasse 14-16, OG02
  • Monday 23.01. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum 16, Kolingasse 14-16, OG02
  • Monday 30.01. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum 16, Kolingasse 14-16, OG02

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

The aim of the seminar is to get to know a current subfield of historical research and possible theoretical concepts and methodological approaches.
History of science is on the one hand a relatively autonomously organized field in the historical sciences, on the other hand a part of the respective other disciplines (history of medicine, for example). While for a long time a progress-oriented narrative of the continuous growth of knowledge dominated, the questions shifted more and more to the conditions of knowledge generation, the institutions, their inclusions and exclusions, the possibilities and limits of knowledge, the social and historical constitution of knowledge, its (medial) mediation, the actors of science, not only the teachers, researchers and learners, but also the sponsors and impeders, etc. Gender history sees itself as a critical science that can revise historical narratives through a gendered gaze and reveal the conditionalities of social organization and the change of historical power relations. In the seminar, we will learn about different topics and issues of history of science as gender history, from the gendered encoding of scientific knowledge and scientific epistemological processes to the gendering of the scientific persona and institutional inclusion and exclusion. We discuss the intersectionality of knowledge, science and gender with other categories of order such as race, origin, class on the basis of exemplary sources, research questions and approaches.
- Intensive text discussion
- Presentation of a text from the seminar reading
- Research of a source example
- Development of research questions

Assessment and permitted materials

Successful completion includes oral participation, preparing a text or researching an appropriate source example, and writing an excerpt on one of the texts discussed.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

For successful completion of the seminar, the excerpt must be graded at least a 4.
15 % continuous participation and discussion of the seminar reading
15 % presentation of a text/source
70 % excerpt (to be handed in by the end of the lecture period)
Equal weight will be given to structure, clarity of presentation, argumentative structure, text comprehension, language/style, and form of the excerpt.

Examination topics

A close study of the seminar literature is required for the work to be performed.

Reading list

The literature to be read and a bibliography for further reading will be provided on Moodle.

Association in the course directory

Schwerpunkte: Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Frauen- und Geschlechtergeschichte.

Last modified: Th 29.09.2022 10:48