233020 VO Science, Technology, Society (STS): Key Questions and Concepts (2019W)
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Sprache: Englisch
Prüfungstermine
Donnerstag
12.12.2019
09:00 - 11:00
Seminarraum STS, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/6. Stock, 1010 Wien
Donnerstag
16.01.2020
11:30 - 13:30
Seminarraum STS, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/6. Stock, 1010 Wien
Donnerstag
06.02.2020
09:00 - 11:00
Seminarraum STS, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/6. Stock, 1010 Wien
Dienstag
23.06.2020
Lehrende
Termine (iCal) - nächster Termin ist mit N markiert
Die Vorbesprechung am 01.10.2019 findet gemeinsam mit der Vorbesprechung der Discussion Class "Key-Questions and Concepts" statt.
Dienstag
01.10.
16:15 - 18:45
Seminarraum STS, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/6. Stock, 1010 Wien
(Vorbesprechung)
Dienstag
08.10.
16:15 - 18:15
Seminarraum STS, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/6. Stock, 1010 Wien
Donnerstag
17.10.
09:15 - 11:15
Seminarraum STS, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/6. Stock, 1010 Wien
Dienstag
22.10.
16:15 - 18:15
Seminarraum STS, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/6. Stock, 1010 Wien
Dienstag
29.10.
16:15 - 18:15
Seminarraum STS, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/6. Stock, 1010 Wien
Dienstag
05.11.
16:15 - 18:15
Seminarraum STS, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/6. Stock, 1010 Wien
Donnerstag
14.11.
09:15 - 11:15
Seminarraum STS, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/6. Stock, 1010 Wien
Dienstag
19.11.
16:15 - 18:15
Seminarraum STS, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/6. Stock, 1010 Wien
Dienstag
26.11.
16:15 - 18:15
Seminarraum STS, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/6. Stock, 1010 Wien
Donnerstag
28.11.
09:15 - 11:15
Seminarraum STS, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/6. Stock, 1010 Wien
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Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung
Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel
The final grade will be based on the written exam of two hours at the end of the term. Learning materials for the exam are the oral lectures given, the pdfs of the slides available on the e-learning platform as well as the texts you had to read. So even if you only take the lecture class and not together with the discussion class, you have to do the reading for the exam!This course uses the plagiarism-detection service Turnitin for larger assignments.
Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab
Grading Scheme
The examination for the lecture will be graded on a basis of 100 points in total.100-87 points Excellent (1)
86-75 points Good (2)
74-63 points Satisfactory (3)
62-50 points Sufficient (4)
49-0 points Unsatisfactory (5) (fail)There are no tools and resources permitted in the lecture exam, except for a paper English language dictionary.
The examination for the lecture will be graded on a basis of 100 points in total.100-87 points Excellent (1)
86-75 points Good (2)
74-63 points Satisfactory (3)
62-50 points Sufficient (4)
49-0 points Unsatisfactory (5) (fail)There are no tools and resources permitted in the lecture exam, except for a paper English language dictionary.
Prüfungsstoff
Learning materials for the exam are the oral lectures given, the pdfs of the slides available on the e-learning platform as well as the texts you had to read. So even if you only take the lecture class and not together with the discussion class, you have to do the reading for the exam!
Literatur
Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis
MA HPS: M 1.1, M 1.2, M 1.3
Letzte Änderung: Mo 07.09.2020 15:21
We will start by introducing four empirical cases which should give us a first feeling for the multifacetedness and the complexities of issues at stake when trying to understand the interactions of science, technology and society. They will accompany us through the lecture and discussion class and serve as shared reference points. STS master students will also use these cases in the other core classes for the case based learning approach.In the subsequent lectures we will address the following issues:
- We will start by asking questions concerning the special status of scientific knowledge and explore what it means to understand science as a specific set of practices, performed in specific places and guided by social processes; this will also lead us to ask for the social organisation of science and its core values.
- We will then move to the area of technologies and investigate how we understand the emergence of new technologies, what societal values are inscribed into them, and how they change and structure our ways of living in contemporary societies. We will specifically also investigate standardization and classification as one powerful way of ordering the world.
- We will then move on to study how futures and pasts are related in embedding technologies into contemporary societies and study the challenges of controversies, risks and disasters.
- Finally, we will look into science-society relations, the governance of science and technology, and how citizens can participate in technoscientific societies.