Course Catalog 2012-2013
Postgraduate

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Course Catalog 2012-2013

BIO-5056 Technological Development and Society, 3 cr

Additional information

The course is organized every second year. In the academic year 2012-13 course implementation has been cancelled.
Suitable for postgraduate studies

Person responsible

Tomi Nokelainen, Tapio Katko

Lessons

Study type P1 P2 P3 P4 Summer Implementations Lecture times and places
Lectures

 

 
 3 h/week

 

 
BIO-5056 2012-01  

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 intended 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 descriptions 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 descriptions 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 descriptions 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 descriptions of technological development 

Evaluation criteria for the course

The course is evaluated as accepted (if course 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:

Completion parts must belong to the same implementation

Additional information about prerequisites
As the course is targeted to postgraduate (doctoral) students, postgraduate student status is required for participation.

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Correspondence of content

Course Corresponds course  Description 
BIO-5056 Technological Development and Society, 3 cr KEB-25056 Technological Development and Society, 3 cr  

More precise information per implementation

Implementation Description Methods of instruction Implementation
BIO-5056 2012-01        

Last modified11.01.2013