Science and Technology

Course title

40075000

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Course description

What is "technology"? Scientific technology essentially defines our contemporary life-styles. However, the essence and ways of technology are not self-evident. This lecture discusses, focusing on design's role in technology, the relation and difference between technology and science, society's involvement in technology, and its ethical implications.

Purpose of class

This lecture aims at shedding light on the relation and difference between technology and science, society's involvement in technology, and its ethical implications by focusing on technology's relation to design.

Goals and objectives

Can explain the relation and difference between scientific technology and scientific theory.
Can explain society's involvement in scientific technology
Can explain technology's ethical implications.
Can explain what kind of act designing scientific technology is

Language

Japanese

Class schedule

	Class schedule	HW assignments (Including preparation and review of the class.)	Amount of Time Required
1.	Intro Technology and artefacts (1) nature and society	Read the course syllabus	60minutes
1.	Intro Technology and artefacts (1) nature and society	Compose notes from the materials from the lecture	100minutes
2.	Technology and artefacts (1) artefacts and functions	Read the materials and prepare for the lecture	60minutes
2.	Technology and artefacts (1) artefacts and functions	Compose notes from the materials from the lecture	100minutes
3.	Technology and design (1) designing technology?	Read the materials and prepare for the lecture	60minutes
3.	Technology and design (1) designing technology?	Compose notes from the materials from the lecture	100minutes
4.	Technology and design (2) functions and usages	Read the materials and prepare for the lecture	60minutes
4.	Technology and design (2) functions and usages	Compose notes from the materials from the lecture	100minutes
5.	Design and morality	Read the materials and prepare for the lecture	60minutes
5.	Design and morality	Compose notes from the materials from the lecture	100minutes
6.	Technological knowledge (1) Engineers and scientific knowledge	Read the materials and prepare for the lecture	60minutes
6.		Compose notes from the materials from the lecture	100minutes
7.	Technological knowledge (2) Varieties of technological knowledge: Scientific knowledge and engineering knowledge	Read the materials and prepare for the lecture	60minutes
7.		Compose notes from the materials from the lecture	100minutes
8.	Society and technology (1) boundaries of technology: technology and its social aspects	Read the materials and prepare for the lecture	60minutes
8.		Compose notes from the materials from the lecture	100minutes
9.	Society and technology (2) Designing the entire system?	Read the materials and prepare for the lecture	60minutes
		Compose notes from the materials from the lecture	100minutes
		Prepare for the final	60minutes
10.	Society and technology (3) Positive and negative viewpoints	Read the materials and prepare for the lecture	60minutes
		Compose notes from the materials from the lecture	100minutes
		Prepare for the final	60minutes
11.	Society and technology (4) Social constructivism and its troubles	Read the materials and prepare for the lecture	60minutes
		Compose notes from the materials from the lecture	100minutes
		Prepare for the final	60minutes
12.	Technology, society, and morality (1) technology and its risks	Read the materials and prepare for the lecture	60minutes
		Compose notes from the materials from the lecture	150minutes
		Prepare for the final	60minutes
13.	Technology, society, and morality (2) role in social experiment	Read the materials and prepare for the lecture	60minutes
		Compose notes from the materials from the lecture	150minutes
		Prepare for the final	60minutes
14.	Final Review	Prepare for the final	200minutes
Total.	-	-	2680minutes

Relationship between 'Goals and Objectives' and 'Course Outcomes'

	Final	in-class assignments	Total.
1.	15%	10%	25%
2.	15%	10%	25%
3.	15%	10%	25%
4.	15%	10%	25%
Total.	60%	40%	-

Evaluation method and criteria

1. Final (in-class): 60% -- composed from multiple choice and short answer questions.
2. In-class assignments: 40% -- asking questions concerning each lecture's points

Textbooks and reference materials

N/A
The following is a further reading, though not necessary:
A philosophy of Technology: From Technical Artefacts to Sociotechnical Systems (Synthesis Lectures on Engineers, Technology, and Society), Prieter Vermaas, et al. Morgan and Claypool, 2011.

Prerequisites

Read the syllabus

Office hours and How to contact professors for questions

lunch time on Wed.

Relation to the environment

Environment-related course (20%)

Regionally-oriented

Non-regionally-oriented course

Development of social and professional independence

Course that cultivates an ability for utilizing knowledge
Course that cultivates a basic interpersonal skills
Course that cultivates a basic self-management skills
Course that cultivates a basic problem-solving skills

Active-learning course

More than one class is interactive

Last modified : Wed Oct 17 07:38:01 JST 2018