Sociology

SOCI3544Gender and Technology (A)3 ch

Explores the processes through which gender relations and assumptions about gender enter into the design and use of technologies, the extent to which the social relations of technology are implicated in the generation of gender inequalities, and the impacts of technology on the lives of women and men.

Prerequisites: SOCI 1001 or equivalent, one of either SOCI 2501 or GEND 2001, and one additional term-course in lower-level Sociology, all with grades of C or better.