Description:
Deals with interactions between science and technology and social, cultural, political, and economic contexts that shape and are shaped by them. Includes mandatory topics on climate change and environmental awareness.
This interdisciplinary course engages students to confront the realities brought about by science and technology in society. Such realities pervade the personal, the public, and the global aspects of our living and are integral to human development. Scientific knowledge and technological development happen in the context of a society with all its socio-political, cultural, economic, and philosophical underpinnings at play. This course seeks to instill reflective knowledge in the students that they are able to live a good life and display ethical decision-making in the face of scientific and technological advancement (CHED, 2017).
Overview:
Science and technology studies or science, technology, and society studies (STS) are the studies of how society, politics, and culture affect scientific research and technological innovation, and how these, in turn, affect society, politics, and culture.
Science, Technology, and Society (STS) is an interdisciplinary field that studies the conditions under which the production, distribution, and utilization of scientific knowledge and technological systems occur; the consequences of these activities upon different groups of people. STS builds on the history and philosophy of science and technology, sociology and anthropology, policy studies, and cultural and literary studies; all of which shape the modes of analysis deployed in the field.
The rise of STS as a teaching field reflects a dawning recognition that specialization in today’s research universities does not fully prepare future citizens to respond knowledgeably and reflectively to the most important challenges of the contemporary world. Increasingly, the dilemmas that confront people, whether in government, industry, politics or daily life, cut across the conventional lines of academic training and thought. STS seeks to overcome the divisions, particularly between the two cultures of humanities (interpretive inquiry) and natural sciences (rational analysis).
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Topics:
GENERAL CONCEPTS AND HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENTS OF STS
1. Historical Antecedents in Which Social Considerations Changed
the Course of Science and Technology
a. In the World: Ancient, Middle, and Modern Age
b. In the Philippines
2. Intellectual Revolutions that Defined Society
a. Copernican
b. Darwinian
c. Freudian
d. Information
e. Meso-American
f. Asian
g. Middle East
h. African
3. Science and Technology and Nation Building
a. The Philippine Government S&T Agenda
b. Major Development Programs and Personalities in S&T
in the Philippines
c. Science Education in the Philippines
d. Selected Indigenous Science and Technologies
STS AND THE HUMAN CONDITION
4. The Human Person Flourishing in Terms of Science and Technology
a. Technology as a Way of Revealing
b. Human Flourishing
5. The Good Life
6. When Technology and Humanity Cross
7. Why the Future Does Not Need Us
SPECIFIC ISSUES IN STS
8. The Information Age
a. Gutenberg to Social Media
9. Biodiversity and the Healthy Society
a. Genetically Modified Organisms
b. Science, Health, and Politics
10. The Nano World
11. Gene Therapy (Stem Cells)
MANDATED TOPICS
12. Climate Change and the Energy Crisis
13. Environmental Awareness
14. Alternative Energy Resources
a. O-Tech Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion
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