GE7 Syllabus 1st Sem AY 2020 2021
GE7 Syllabus 1st Sem AY 2020 2021
Syllabus of Instruction in
GE 7 (Science, Technology, and Society)
1st Semester, A. Y. 2020-2021
NEUST VISION
NEUST is a locally responsive and internationally relevant and recognized University of Science and Technology.
PANANAW
Ang NEUST ay Pamantasan ng Agham at Teknolohiyang matugunin sa pambansang pangangailangan, napapanahon, at kinikilala sa daigdig.
NEUST MISSION
To develop new knowledge and technologies and transform human resources into productive citizenry to bring about development impact to local and international
communities.
LAYON
Makalinang ng mga bagong kaalaman at teknolohiya, at baguhing-anyo ang yamang katauhan upang maging mabungang mamamayan na magdadala ng kaunlaran at
pagbabago sa pambansa at pandaigdigang pamayanan.
CAS GOALS
a) To provide quality education and training in the arts and sciences so that every student is able to view and understand human nature in a wider and a more balanced
perspective; and (b) to prepare the student for an advanced scholarly study and to maintain high intellectual standards in the arts and sciences.
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COURSE SYLLABUS
I. PRELIMINARIES
A. Curriculum Program : Bachelor of Science in Chemistry
B. Course Code : GE 7
C. Course Title : Science, Technology, and Society
D. Credit Unit/Course Credit : 3.0
E. Time Duration : 3 hours/week, 18 weeks/semester, 54 hours/semester
F. Pre-requisite : none
II. COURSE DESCRIPTION : The course deals with interactions between science and technology and social, cultural, political, and economic contexts that
shape and are shaped by them. (CMO No. 20, series of 2013).
This interdisciplinary course engages students to confront the realities brought about by science and technology in society. Such
realities pervade the personal, the public, and the global aspects of our living and are integral to human development. Scientific
knowledge and technological development happen in the context of society with all its socio-political, cultural, economic, and
philosophical underpinnings at play. This course seeks to instill reflective knowledge in the students that they are able to live the
good life and display ethical decision making in the face of scientific and technological advancement.
This course includes mandatory topics on climate change and environmental awareness.
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c. Other Revolutions
CHAPTER 3: Science and Week 4 1. Discuss the role of Science and • Discussion • Recitation
Technology in Nation Technology in Philippine
(3 hours) nation building;
Building • Group activity: Science Café • Group
presentation
2. Evaluate government policies
a. Why is Science and • Research
Technology Important pertaining to science and
in Nation Building? technology in terms of their
contributions to nation • Group activity: Who are our national
building ; and scientists?
b. Philippine Government
Science and 3. Identify actual science and • Group activity: Indigenous Practices
Technology Agenda technology policies of the
government and appraise their
c. Major Development
Programs and
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d. Science Education in
the Philippines
e. Selected Indigenous
Science and
Technologies
Quiz/Recitation/Submission Week 5 • Quiz
of Requirements from • Recitation
(3 hours)
Ch.1-3
CHAPTER 4: Human Week 6 1. Analyze the human condition • Discussion • Essay/Reflection
Flourishing in order to deeply reflect and paper
(3 hours)
a. What is “Human express philosophical • Individual Activity: Self-assessment
Flourishing” ramifications that are • Group
meaningful to the student as a
• Online article reading presentation
b. Based on Ancient part of society; and
a. Is Human Flourishing in the ICT
Greek Philosophers’ World of the Future Likely? by
2. Critique human flourishing
Perspective Connolly and Miller
vis-à-vis the progress of
science and technology so that b. Forget “developing” poor
c. A Modern World the student can define for countries, it’s time to “develop”
Concept himself/herself the meaning of rich countries by Jason Hickel
the good life c. The Question Concerning
d. Criteria for Human Technology by Martin Heidegger
Flourishing
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f. Technology as a Way
of Revealing
CHAPTER 5: The Good Week 7 1. Define what is the “good life”; • Lecture • Recitation
Life and
(3 hours)
a. The Good Life • Discussion • Reaction paper
2. Examine shared concerns that
make up the good life in order
b. Ethics and Ethical • Online article reading: Towards a
Standards to come up with innovative,
creative solutions to Green Economy: Pathways to
contemporary issues guided by Sustainable Development and Poverty
c. The Role of Ethics in Eradication by UNEP
ethical standards
Innovation
• Online video watching: That Sugar
d. The Good Life, Film
Innovation, Ethics
Quiz/MIDTERM Week 8 • Quiz
EXAM/Submission of
(3 hours)
Requirements from Ch.4-5 • Recitation
• Midterm Exam
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c. Technological Ethical
Dilemmas
d. Human Rights
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e. Impact of the
Information Age
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c. Patterns of Biodiversity
d. Importance of
Biodiversity
e. Biodiversity Loss
f. Causes of Biodiversity
Loss
h. Process of Making
GMOs
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i. Uses of GMOs
j. Risks and Downsides of
GMOs
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d. Challenges in Gene
Therapy
e. Ethical Questions in
Gene Therapy
Quiz/FINAL Week 18 • Quiz
EXAM/Submission of
(3 hours)
Requirements from Ch.10- • Recitation
11
• Final Exam
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Minimum passing score is 75%. The final grade is computed by multiplying the tentative grade by 2 plus the midterm grade, divided by 3. The highest grade is 1.00 and
the lowest passing grade is 3.00. Failure to comply with one of the above criteria, the student gets a grade of 5.00 or incomplete.
VI. REFERENCES
• Anderson, Philip W. “More is Different—One More Time,” in More is Different: Fifty Years of Condensed Matter Physics, ed. N. Phuan Ong and Ravin N. Bhatt,
Princeton University Press, 2001.
• Balakrishnan, Janaki and B V Sreekantan, eds. Nature’s Longest Threads: New Frontiers in the Mathematics and Physics of Information in Biology, World Scientific,
2014.
• Caoli, Olivia. “A History of Science and Technology of the Philippines,” in Analysis of Conditions for National Scientific and Technological Self-Reliance: The
Philippine Situation, Quezon City: University of the Philippines, 1986.
• Dayrit, Fabian. “Sustainable Development: An Evolving Paradigm for the 21st Century,” in Stellar Origins, Human Ways: Readings in Science, Technology, and
Society, ed. Ma. AssuntaCuyegkeng, Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2011.
• Ecker, David J. Germ Catcher, Scientific American, 2014.
• Floridi, Luciano. The Fourth Revolution: How the Infosphere is Reshaping Human Reality, Oxford University Press, 2014.
• Feynman, Richard. “The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: What Is and What should be the role of scientific culture in modern society” in The Best Short Works of
Richard Feynman, pp. 97–115, Perseus Books,1999.
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• Gripaldo, Rolando. “The Concepts of the Public Good: A View from the Filipino Philosopher” in The Making of a Filipino Philosopher and Other Essays, pp. 82-100,
National Bookstore, 2009.
• Heidegger, Martin. The Question Concerning Technology and Other Essays, HarperCollins, 1982.
• Hickel, Jason. “Forget ‘developing’ poor countries, it’s time to ‘de-develop’ rich countries,” The Guardian, Online: http://www.theguardian.com/global-development-
professionals-network/2015/sep/23/developing-poor-countries-de-develop-rich-countries-sdgs.
• Lehrer, Jonah. How We Decide, Mariner Books, 2010.
• Maboloc, Christopher Ryan. “Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing” in Ethics and Human Dignity, 15-23, Rex Bookstore, 2010.
• McNamara, Daniel J. in “A Return to the Beginning,” in Stellar Origins, Human Ways: Readings in Science, Technology, and Society, ed. Ma. AssuntaCuyegkeng,
Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2011.
• Rodriguez, Socorro M. “Philippine Science and Technology: Economic, Political and Social Events Shaping Their Development,” 1996
• Von Baeyer, Hans Christian, Information: The New Language of Science, Harvard University Press, 2005.
STS FACULTY MEMBERS DR. ROEL S. ANG DR. MARIO S. ABESAMIS JR.
Subject Teacher Chairperson, Math & Science Dept. Dean, College of Arts & Sciences
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