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67495 History of Technology
Danish title: Teknologihistorie

Type: Å, Language: DDD
Credit points: 5 point
Previous course: C8819
Offered by: Department of Planning (IFP)
No credit points with: C8819
Prerequisite: C0101.C0103.C0131.C1801.C8501
Recommended semester: 4th -7th semester
Limitation: Max. 25
Scope and form: 2 lecture modules per week and exercises at the Technical Museum, Elsinore.
Examination: Evaluation of report(s) (13 point scale )
Remarks: The course is given in cooperation with the Technical Museum and is supported by the Cowi Foundation.
Contact person: Tom Rallis, IFP, Building 115, Tel. +45 4525 1537
Aim: To give the students a theoretical understanding of technology history which enables them to look at questions about the relationship between sciences, technology and society in a historical perspective, and to use this knowledge at present situations.
Contents: To analyse and evaluate the relationship between the development of science, technology and society and the impact on environment and resources - and then to use this knowledge at present situations by lectures on the development of the steam engine and the history of Danish industry and transport 1750 - 1880.