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Course Catalog 2011-2012
BIO-5056 Technological Development and Society, 3 cr |
Additional information
The course is organized every second year. The course will not be lectured academic year 2011-12.
Suitable for postgraduate studies
Will not be lectured year 2011-2012
Person responsible
Tomi Nokelainen, Tapio Katko
Requirements
Active participation to lectures (80% attendance), personal lecture reviews, presentation of the core insights of own lecture reviews and peer reviews of others contributions.
Completion parts must belong to the same implementation
Principles and baselines related to teaching and learning
The course is inteded to be discussing and reflective by its nature.
Learning outcomes
The goal of the course is to widen and deepen knowledge and understanding of the interactions between technological development and society in long-term perspectives, from local to global context. Furthermore, the course is intended to enable students to assess the role of technological and societal development with regard to the domain of their own postgraduate studies.
Content
| Content | Core content | Complementary knowledge | Specialist knowledge |
| 1. | Different views on the concept of technology (i.e. what is technology) | Philosophical, historical and practical reasoning behind each conceptualization of technology | The applicability of different conceptualizations in different technological domains |
| 2. | The general dynamics of technological development | Historical manifestations of the dynamics of technological development | Detailed knowledge concerning the idiosyncrasies of different historical case discriptions on the dynamics of technological development |
| 3. | The interplay between (co-evolution of) technological development and society | Historical manifestations of interplay between technological development and society in different domains of life | Detailed knowledge concerning the idiosyncrasies of different historical case discriptions on the interplay between technological and societal development |
| 4. | Historical-theoretical perspectives and explanations of the co-evolution of technology and society | The explanatory power of different perspectives in various concrete historical development trajectories | Detailed knowledge concerning the idiosyncrasies of different historical case discriptions on the development trajectories of technological and societal change |
| 5. | The drivers and inhibitors of technological development | Examples of the role of various drivers and inhibitors affecting the development of particular technologies | Detailed knowledge concerning the idiosyncrasies of different historical case discriptions of technological development |
Evaluation criteria for the course
The course is evaluated as accepted (if couse requirements are satisfied) or not accepted (if the requirements are not satisfied).
Assessment scale:
Evaluation scale passed/failed will be used on the course
Partial passing:
Additional information about prerequisites
As the course is targeted to postgraduate (doctoral) students, postgraduate student status is required for participation.
Prerequisite relations (Requires logging in to POP)
Correspondence of content
There is no equivalence with any other courses