GEC1

Science
7 Society
Technology

INSTRUCTOR: MARY JOY T.

PELIGRINO
COLLEGE OF EDUCATION
SCIENCE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT

COURSE OUTLINE

COURSE NAME:
GEC 17 SCIENCE,
TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY COURSE CREDIT: 3 UNITS

General Education Curriculum

 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.
3
LEARNING CONTENT/TOPICS

MIDTERM
1.1. Introduction to Science, Technology and Society
1.2. The Nature of Science
1.3. Relationships of Science, Technology and Society
2.1. S&T in different periods
a. Ancient
b. Medieval
c. Renaissance
d. Industrial Revolution
e. 19th Century
f. 20th Century
LEARNING CONTENT/TOPICS

MIDTERM
3.1. Historical Background of S & T in the Philippines
a. Pre-Spanish
b. Spanish
c. American and Post-Commonwealth
d. Marcos Era
e. Fifth Republic
4.1. The Age of Enlightenment
a. Copernican
b. Darwinian
c. Freudian
d. Information Age
e. Mesoamerican
f. Middle East
g. African
LEARNING CONTENT/TOPICS

MIDTERM
5.1. The Concept of Nation Building
5.2. S & T in Nation Building (Philippines and Global Perspective)
5.3. The Philippine Government S & T agenda
5.4. Personalities in S & T in the Philippines
5.5. Science Education and Selected Indigenous Science and Technologies
6.1. Selected Views on Technology
6.2. Martin Heidegger on S & T
6.3. The society in the face of S & T
7.1. Human Being
7.2. Understanding Human Flourishing
7.3. S & T and Human flourishing
8.1. The Concept of Being Good
8.2. The Good Life
LEARNING CONTENT/TOPICS

FINAL TERM
9.1. Advantages, disadvantages and limitations of technology
9.2. Humanity
9.3. Policies and Technological Advancement
9.4. Ethical Dilemmas
10.1. Human and Society
10.2. Relation of Technology with Humanity
10.3. How Technology is Transforming the Human Experience
10.4. Post humanity Theory
11.1. Importance of Biodiversity
11.2. Threats to Biodiversity
11.3. Earth’s Biodiversity Hot Spots
11.4. Genetic Modified Organisms
LEARNING CONTENT/TOPICS

FINAL TERM
12.1. The Pre-Gutenberg World
12.2. The Gutenberg Revolution
12.3. The Post-Gutenberg World
12.4. Information Age
12.5. Social media and Its Impact to Society
13.1. What is nanotechnology
13.2. Nanotechnology of the Past
13.3. Nanotechnology in the Philippines
13.4. Major Applications of Nanotechnology
LEARNING CONTENT/TOPICS

FINAL TERM
14.1. Genes and the Human Genome
14.2. Genetic Disorders
14.3. Gene Therapy
15.1. Climate Change as a Result of Global Warming
15.2. Energy Crisis
15.3. Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion: Alternative Energy Source
15.4. Environmental Awareness
 BREAKDOWN OF ASSESSMENT TASK WEIGHTS PER TERM:

Written outputs Oral reports, oral

(quizzes, long exams, recitations, video
reflection papers)
outputs, etc.
CLASS STANDING
(WRITTEN TASKS)
PERFORMANCE TASKS TERM EXAMS

20% 50% 30%

FINAL GRADE (FG) = (1/3) Midterm Grade (MTG)

+ (2/3) Final Term Grade (FTG)
 CHAPTER OUTLINE
GEC17 SCIENCE,
TECHNOLOGY,
 1. S & T: Definitions and
& SOCIETY Assumptions
 2. Face to Face with S & T
 3. S & T Fused Together
CHAPTER 1  4. Where Science and
Technology is
 taking the Society
 5. STS Approach
 WHAT IS SCIENCE?
Research and
• Science is the development
description,
understanding, and
prediction of
phenomena through
the use and generation
of verifiable theories,
laws, and principles.
 WHAT IS SCIENCE?
• the intellectual and
practical activity
encompassing the
systematic study of
the structure and
behavior of the
physical and natural
world through
observation and
experiment –
Oxford
tionary
WHAT IS SCIENCE?
McGinn (1991)
•As a knowledge
•As a field of systematic inquiry into nature
•As a form of human cultural activity
•As a total societal enterprise
HOW TO CATEGORIZE SOMETHING AS
SCIENCE?
• 1. Focuses on the natural world
It is through science that we understand the
natural world. Science is not concerned with
supernatural world which cannot be tested and is
not governed by the laws of the natural world
HOW TO CATEGORIZE SOMETHING AS
SCIENCE?
• 2. Goes through experiments
Something has to be tested and should arrive
at a number of consistent observations so it
could be taken as true. Anything that cannot be
subjected to experimentation and could not give
any observable data cannot be regarded as
science.
HOW TO CATEGORIZE SOMETHING AS
SCIENCE?
• 3. Relies on Evidence
As science requires experimentations and
observations, it is only right that it would look for
evidences that will support the truthfulness of
something. Evidences that are relevant to the
matter being studied are what scientists are
looking for to confirm something to be of science.
HOW TO CATEGORIZE SOMETHING AS
SCIENCE?
• 4. Passes through the scientific community
Science requires a number of consistent
evidences for it not to be biased, it has to go
through different groups of people who would
qualify the idea.
WHAT IS TECHNOLOGY?
• The use of scientific knowledge
• Creating/inventing things
 WHAT IS TECHNOLOGY?
• Things that fulfill our
needs and desires or
perform certain functions
• Application of
understanding of natural
laws to the solution of
practical problems
WHAT IS TECHNOLOGY?

The Nature of Technology – W. Brian Arthur

1. Technology is a “means to fulfill a human purpose” in that a

method or any material may be utilized to serve a human
purpose.
2. Technology is an assemblage of practices and components
3. Technology is a collection of devices and engineering
practices available to culture.

Pitch deck 21
SOCIETY
• A group of persons joined together for a
common purpose or by a common interest.

3 Categories
• Pre-Industrial Society
• Industrial Society
• Post-Industrial Society
 ACTIVITY 1

THE PARADOX OF OUR TIME

By Dr. Bob Moorehead

Direction: read the essay and choose one (1)

stanza to reflect, focusing on the paradoxes
that you have personally experienced in your life
in relation to STS. Present your reflection by
recording a 2-minute video and submit it in your
respective google classrooms.

RUBRICS 30 POINTS
Content & Organization of Presentation
 THANK YOU

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