Course Description

Course CodeCourse NameCreditsHours
A502015 The change and development of society 2.0 2
Description The purpose of the course is to teach students the ability of thinking the interaction between technology, society and culture. The cases in this class are all based on the changing of technology and society, and we will make students think, even criticize the interdisciplinary topics of the influence of technology today, by the way of STS (science, technology and society), which is a program in scientific philosophy and sociology. We will introduce the theories of STS with the basic lecture of ideological history, and then make students to carry on the case studies, including issues of digital technology, globalization, climate change or risk of society and so on, with the viewpoints of “who, what, when, where and which”. Finally we will encourage them to propose their opinion and the imagination of the future world.