Postgraduate Module Descriptor

SOCM950: Science Technology and Society

This module descriptor refers to the 2023/4 academic year.

Overview

NQF Level	7
Credits	30	ECTS Value	15
Term(s) and duration	This module ran during term 1 (11 weeks)
Academic staff	Professor Michael Schillmeier (Lecturer)
Pre-requisites	None
Co-requisites	None
Available via distance learning	No

The module will invite students to question the taken-for-granted status of contemporary science and technology and to explore the relations between human as well as human/nonhuman interaction that unfold the complexities of social processes cultural specificities. The major conceptual approaches will be critically evaluated while key social, cultural and political issues will be explored. The module discusses along selected empirical data primarily post-humanist accounts in understanding science and technology to critically engage with central premises and concepts of objectivity, agency, knowledge, power, risk, responsible innovation, culture/nature divide, intersectionality and environmental issues.

Module created	01/10/2008	Last revised	22/04/2022