Sociology 234 - Science and Society:Debates on Race and Gender

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Bard College

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Human Rights, SRE, STS This course revisits the study of race and ethnicity in the context of emerging genetic research. It is structured historically, beginning with examination of the history of the race concept in anthropology, the eugenics movement in the United States, and eugenics in Nazi Germany. Next, more recent anthropological and sociological accounts of race are surveyed in relation to the genomics revolution. This revolution has witnessed the rapid growth in the development of technologies for genetic analysis, a technical change that has led to achievements such as the completion of the human genome sequences. Finally, we consider the implications and potential social consequences of this emerging research on human genetic variation across scientific domains such as health and disease (including racialized medicine), genetic screening, and forensics.

Credits:

4.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.bard.edu

Phone Number:

(845) 758-6822

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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