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Archive 1999/2000

85201 Technology and Society. Danish title: Teknologi og samfund Language: Danish Credit points: 5 Type:  Open University Language: Danish Previous course: C8501 No credit points with: C8501 Prerequisite: AMS-kursus i en fagpakke Recommended semester: 4th -7th semester Examination: Evaluation of report(s) (13-scale) Participant limitation: max. 25 Contact person:  Lauge Baungaard Rasmussen, Building 303, Tel. +45 4525 6025, email lbr@its.dtu.dk, http://www.its.dtu.dk/ansat/lbr/lbr_e.htm Peter Olsén, Building 303, Tel. +45 4525 6050, email po@its.dtu.dk, http://www.its.dtu.dk/ansat/po/po_e.htm Department: Department of Technology and Social Sciences 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.