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- School of Materials and Chemical Technology
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- 工学院，物質理工学院，環境・社会理工学院共通科目
- Liberal arts and basic science courses
- First-Year Courses
- School of Science
- School of Engineering
- School of Materials and Chemical Technology
- School of Computing
- School of Life Science and Technology
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School of Environment and Society
- Department of Architecture and Building Engineering
- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Department of Transdisciplinary Science and Engineering
- Department of Social and Human Sciences
- Department of Innovation Science
- Graduate major in Technology and Innovation Management
- Common courses
- Liberal arts and basic science courses
- Academic unit or major
- Humanities and social science courses
- Instructor(s)
- Nakajima Hideto Arimoto Tateo Ishida Hideki Shibata Kiyoshi Hirakawa Hideyuki Takuma Naoki
- Class Format
- Lecture
- Media-enhanced courses
- Day/Period(Room No.)
- Wed3-4(S224)
- Group
- -
- Course number
- LAH.T409
- Credits
- 1
- Academic year
- 2017
- Offered quarter
- 3Q
- Syllabus updated
- 2017/7/25
- Lecture notes updated
- 2017/9/5
- Language used
- Japanese
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Course description and aims
This course is designed and delivered to cultivate the following abilities, attributes, and perspectives which are appropriate and required for those students who study at one of the top leading comprehensive universities of science and technology in Japan.
By the completion of this course, the students will have
1) the ability to recognize and explain the nature and broadening scope of certain fields and/or disciplines in science and engineering,
2) the ability to examine the ELSI (Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications/Influences) of those fields and/or disciplines and what role they should play in society and for society,
3) the attitude to seek the broad and transdisciplinary perspectives on science and engineering, and
4) the ability to develop an attitude to examine one's own field of study with a multi-dimensional framework.
This course is designed, developed, and offered jointly by the respective School and the Institute for Liberal Arts.
This course is to study examples of problems among science, technology, and society, and past solutions to them in order to tackle these problems.
Student learning outcomes
Students should learn to be able to have multiple perspectives to understand problems among science, technology and society, in order to cope with new problems.
Keywords
science, technology, society
Competencies that will be developed
| Specialist skills | Intercultural skills | Communication skills | ✔ Critical thinking skills | ✔ Practical and/or problem-solving skills |
Class flow
First, lecturers give a 60 minute talk, then students are expected to join the discussion. At the end of each class, students create comment sheets.
As with all other courses in this category (400 Transdisciplinary Course), this course is offered in the "Active Learning" mode which requires students to take an active role in their own learning. Therefore, students are required to submit a summary report at the end of each session. (In case you are not able to attend a class, you should inform the instructor of your reason for absence in advance.) Class attendance is required and taken into account for grades.
Course schedule/Required learning
| Course schedule | Required learning | |
|---|---|---|
| Class 1 | What is techno-science? | Understanding what techno-science is. |
| Class 2 | Universal design | Understanding the basic concepts of universal design |
| Class 3 | Participation to techno-science | Possibility of citizen participation in techno-science |
| Class 4 | What is innovation? | Exact understanding of the term Innovation by Schumpeter |
| Class 5 | LCA and society | To learn to analyse artifacts in life cycle. |
| Class 6 | Science and technology in society in Japan | History of Japanese science policy, and policy for the future |
| Class 7 | Nature technology | Understanding concepts like bio-mimicry |
| Class 8 | The future of STS | Wrap up and how to prepare your term paper |
Textbook(s)
Hideto Nakajima, Technology Studies for Engineers, Minerva Pub (In Japanese)
Reference books, course materials, etc.
Please see the reference books in the textbook above.
Assessment criteria and methods
Term paper 50%, comment sheet 50% For the credits of this course, as with all other courses in this category (400 Transdisciplinary Course), students must submit an original paper which addresses "the nature and scope" of a given field/discipline and its "societal role." An important part of the assessment is based on the quality of the paper. The instructor will explain details of the requirements for the paper in the first class meeting.
Related courses
- LAH.T103 ： History of Technology A
Prerequisites (i.e., required knowledge, skills, courses, etc.)
Enthusiasm to the lecture
