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85201 Technology and Society.
Danish title: Teknologi og samfund

Type: Å, Language: DDD
Credit points: 5 point
Previous course: C8501
Offered by: Department of Technology and Social Sciences (ITS)
No credit points with: C8501
Prerequisite: C8660/61.85141/42
Recommended semester: 4th -7th semester
Limitation: Max. 50
Examination: Evaluation of report(s) (13 point scale )
Contact person: Peter Olsen, ITS, Building 322, Tel. +45 4525 6050
Aim: To give the students a cultural and historical knowledge about models, ideals or utopias about society, technology and nature since the industrial revolution. This knowledge includes aspects of the material/societal basis of the models. The course aims at qualifying the student to imagine and develop different pictures of the future relations between technology, nature and society,
Contents: Paradigms and models influencing industrialized societies up till now. An overview of individual-oriented respectively collective-oriented utopias - and their material basis. Moreover an introduction is given regarding different views in the wellfarestate in this century - and different views on the relation between society and environment. The students learn to use different methods in order to develop and evaluate alternative models of the future.