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KULT3304

STS: Technology, Inovation and Social Change

Credits 15
Level Second degree level
Course start Spring 2013
Duration 1 semester
Language of instruction Norwegian
Examination arrangement Home examination

About

About the course

Course content

The course offers an extended training in the study of science and technology, with an emphasis on historical and social scientific conceptions of technology.

Learning outcome

The course aims at familiarizing students with cultural-scientific analyses of modern science and technology and their interplay with social, political, economical, and cultural processes of change.

Learning methods and activities

Assessment is based on a portfolio of written work: two assignments, each 2-3 pages long, as well as a larger work of 13-15 to be submitted at the end of term. The first two assignments must be passed in order for the longer essay to be accepted. Collective assessment. Letter grade.

Compulsory assignments

  • Two obligatory written exercises (3-4 pages)

Required previous knowledge

Subject areas

  • History
  • Cultural History
  • Social Studies
  • Science and Technology Studies

Contact information

Course coordinator

Lecturers

Department with academic responsibility

Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture

Examination

Examination

Examination arrangement: Home examination
Grade: Letters

Ordinary examination - Autumn 2012

Hjemmeeksamen
Weighting 100/100

Ordinary examination - Spring 2013

Hjemmeeksamen
Weighting 100/100

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