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COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES

Syllabus of Instruction in
GE 7 (Science, Technology, and Society)
1st Semester, A. Y. 2020-2021

NEUST VISION
NEUST is a locally responsive and internationally relevant and recognized University of Science and Technology.

PANANAW
Ang NEUST ay Pamantasan ng Agham at Teknolohiyang matugunin sa pambansang pangangailangan, napapanahon, at kinikilala sa daigdig.

NEUST MISSION
To develop new knowledge and technologies and transform human resources into productive citizenry to bring about development impact to local and international
communities.

LAYON
Makalinang ng mga bagong kaalaman at teknolohiya, at baguhing-anyo ang yamang katauhan upang maging mabungang mamamayan na magdadala ng kaunlaran at
pagbabago sa pambansa at pandaigdigang pamayanan.

CAS GOALS
a) To provide quality education and training in the arts and sciences so that every student is able to view and understand human nature in a wider and a more balanced
perspective; and (b) to prepare the student for an advanced scholarly study and to maintain high intellectual standards in the arts and sciences.

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PROGRAM EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES (PEO)

1. To develop amongst students (a) an appreciation of the practical, intellectual, and aesthetic dimensions of the nature of mathematics and (b) a proficiency in the application
of mathematical tools to daily life;
2. To illustrate to students (a) the interactions between science and technology, and (b) the pivotal role that physics play in the scientific and technological developments in
the modern world; and
3. To cultivate values that are inherent in science and scientific investigation such as honesty, teamwork, perseverance, industry, and hard work.

COURSE SYLLABUS
I. PRELIMINARIES
A. Curriculum Program : Bachelor of Science in Chemistry
B. Course Code : GE 7
C. Course Title : Science, Technology, and Society
D. Credit Unit/Course Credit : 3.0
E. Time Duration : 3 hours/week, 18 weeks/semester, 54 hours/semester
F. Pre-requisite : none

II. 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.

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III. COURSE OUTCOMES

At the end of this course, the students will be able to:

At the end of the course, the students would be able to:

Knowledge
CO1: Articulate the impacts of science and technology on society, specifically Philippine society.
CO2: Explain how science and technology affect society and the environment and its role in nation-building.
CO3: Analyze the human condition in order to deeply reflect and express philosophical ramifications that are meaningful to the student as a
part of society.
CO4: Define and demonstrate the impact of social media on the students9 life and Philippine society in general.
Skills
CO5: Creatively present the importance and contributions of science and technology to society.
CO6: Examine shared concerns that make up the good life in order to come up with innovative and creative solutions to contemporary issues
guided by ethical standards.
CO7: Illustrate how the social media and information age impact their lives and their understanding of climate change.
Values
CO8: Imbibe the importance of science and technology in the preservation of the environment and the development of the Filipino nation.
CO9: Critique human-flourishing vis-à-vis the progress of science and technology such that the student may be able to define for
himself/herself the meaning of the good life.
CO10: Foster the value of a healthy lifestyle toward the holistic and sustainable development of society and the environment.

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CHAPTER 2: Intellectual
Revolutions that Defined
Society
a. Introduction on
Intellectual Revolutions
b. Intellectual Revolution
• Nicholaus Copernicus
• Charles Darwin
• Sigmund Freud
c. Other Revolutions
CHAPTER 3: Science and
Technology in Nation
Building
a. Why is Science and
Technology Important
in Nation Building?
b. Philippine Government
Science and
Technology Agenda
c. Major Development
Programs and
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Week 3 1. Identify intellectual • Lecture • Recitation
revolutions that defined
(3 hours) society;
• Discussion • Essay
2. Identify paradigm shifts in
• Group Activity: The Legacy of Brahe, • Presentation
history; and
Kepler, and Galileo
3. Articulate ways by which
• Group Activity: Research and HiStory
society is transformed by
science and technology Telling
Week 4 1. Discuss the role of Science and • Discussion • Recitation
Technology in Philippine
(3 hours) nation building;
• Group activity: Science Café • Group
presentation
2. Evaluate government policies
• Research
pertaining to science and
technology in terms of their
• Group activity: Who are our national
contributions to nation
building ; and scientists?
3. Identify actual science and • Group activity: Indigenous Practices
technology policies of the
government and appraise their
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Personalities in S&T in
the Philippines
d. Science Education in
the Philippines
e. Selected Indigenous
Science and
Technologies
Quiz/Recitation/Submission
of Requirements from
Ch.1-3
CHAPTER 4: Human
Flourishing
a. What is <Human
Flourishing=
b. Based on Ancient
Greek Philosophers9
Perspective
c. A Modern World
Concept
d. Criteria for Human
Flourishing
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impact on the development of
the Filipino nation
Week 5
(3 hours)
Week 6 1. Analyze the human condition
in order to deeply reflect and
(3 hours) express philosophical
ramifications that are
meaningful to the student as a
part of society; and
2. Critique human flourishing
vis-à-vis the progress of
science and technology so that
the student can define for
himself/herself the meaning of
the good life
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• Quiz
• Recitation
• Discussion • Essay/Reflection
paper
• Individual Activity: Self-assessment
• Group
• Online article reading presentation
a. Is Human Flourishing in the ICT
World of the Future Likely? by
Connolly and Miller
b. Forget <developing= poor
countries, it’s time to <develop=
rich countries by Jason Hickel
c. The Question Concerning
Technology by Martin Heidegger
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e. The Human Person
Flourishing in Terms of
Science and
Technology
f. Technology as a Way
of Revealing
CHAPTER 5: The Good
Life
a. The Good Life
b. Ethics and Ethical
Standards
c. The Role of Ethics in
Innovation
d. The Good Life,
Innovation, Ethics
Quiz/MIDTERM
EXAM/Submission of
Requirements from Ch.4-5
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• Online video watching
a. The Magician’s Twin: CS Lewis
and the Case Against Scientism
b. The Village of Watermills by Akira
Kurosawa
Week 7 1. Define what is the <good life=; • Lecture • Recitation
and
(3 hours)
• Discussion • Reaction paper
2. Examine shared concerns that
make up the good life in order
• Online article reading: Towards a
to come up with innovative,
Green Economy: Pathways to
creative solutions to
contemporary issues guided by Sustainable Development and Poverty
Eradication by UNEP
ethical standards
• Online video watching: That Sugar
Film
Week 8 • Quiz
(3 hours)
• Recitation
• Midterm Exam
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CHAPTER 6: When
Technology and Humanity
Cross
a. What is an Ethical
Dilemma?
b. How do we approach
an ethical dilemma?
c. Technological Ethical
Dilemmas
d. Human Rights
e. Human Flourishing and
Human Rights
CHAPTER 7: Why Does
the Future Not Need Us?
a. Genetics,
Nanotechnology and
Robotics
b. Luddites and Luddism
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Week 9 1. Examine human rights in order • Discussion • Recitation
to uphold such rights in
(3 hours) technological ethical
• Online article reading: • Debate
dilemmas; and a. The ethical dilemmas of robotics
b. Is Google making us stupid?
2. Discuss the effects of the
interplay of humanity and
science and technology
Week 10 1. Evaluate contemporary human • Discussion • Recitation
experience in order to
(3 hours) strengthen and enlighten the • Online article reading • Case study:
human person functioning in a. Why the Future Doesn’t Need Us? Waze
society; and
by Bill Joy
b. What the Luddites Really Fought • Group activity:
2. Examine technology9s
potential impact to humans Against by Richard Conniff Techno Café
• Online video watching
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a. A.I. Artificial Intelligence by • Debate: Pros

Steven Spielberg and Cons of
b. I, Robot by Alex Proyas Science and
Technology in
Society

Quiz/Recitation Week 11 • Quiz

/Submission of
(3 hours)
Requirements from Ch.6-7 • Recitation
CHAPTER 8: The Week 12 1. Link learned concepts to the • Discussion • Written report
Information Age development of the
(3 hours) information age and its impact • Individual activity: A Day Without • Presentation
a. History of the on society; and Technology
Information Age • Debate: Social
2. Illustrate how the social media
• Individual activity: Timing your Media
b. First Information and the information age have
impacted our lives Technology
Revolution • Group
• Group activity: Technology and Past Presentation:
c. Second Information Illustrate How
Revolution • Online video watching: TED Talk: Social Media
Julian Assange on <Why the World Impacted Our
d. Third Information Lives
Needs Wikileaks=
Revolution

e. Impact of the
Information Age

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CHAPTER 9: Biodiversity 13-14 1. Determine the interrelatedness • Discussion • Recitation

and the Healthy Society of society, environment, and
(6 hours) health;
Genetically Modified • Online video watching: Polar bears • Case study
Organisms: Science, starve
Health, and Politics 2. Define biodiversity and
• Group
discuss its importance; and
• Group activity presentation
a. What is Biodiversity?
3. Discuss the ethics and
implications of GMOs and • Online article reading • Debate: The
b. Some Terms Related to potential future impacts Case of Bt
Biodiversity Talong

c. Patterns of Biodiversity

d. Importance of
Biodiversity

e. Biodiversity Loss

f. Causes of Biodiversity
Loss

g. What are Genetically

Modified Organisms
(GMOs)?

h. Process of Making
GMOs

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i. Uses of GMOs
j. Risks and Downsides of
GMOs

k. Ethics and Implications

of GMOs

l. Policies and Politics on

GMOs
Quiz/Recitation/Submission Week 15 • Quiz
of Requirements from
(3 hours)
Ch.8-9 • Recitation
CHAPTER 10: The Nano Week 16 1. Discuss the major impacts • Discussion • Presentation
World (both potential and realized) of
(3 hours) nanotechnology on society; • Film viewing • Recitation
a. What is a. TED Talk: Ray Kurzwell on <How
Nanotechnology? 2. Analyze the issue through the
Technology Will Transform Us=
conceptual STS lenses; and
b. Powers of 10
b. How Small is <Nano=?
3. Critique the issue on its costs
and benefits to society • Group activity: Nanotech Stories
c. Nanoparticles

d. Uses and Applications

of Nanotechnologies

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e. Concerns and Issues

About Nanotechnology
CHAPTER 11: Gene
Therapy
a. What is Gene
Therapy?
b. How Gene Therapy
Works?
c. Two Types of Gene
Therapy
Week 17 1. Describe gene therapy and its
various forms; and
(3 hours)
2. Assess the issue9s potential
benefits and detriments to
global health
• Online video watching • Reflection paper/
a. TED Talk: Juan Enriquez on <The Essay
Next Species of Human=
b. TED Talk: Susan Lim on
<Transplant Cells Not Organs=
c. Science Fiction: Stem Cell
Research
d. Cloning 101
e. Stem Cells 101 – Mayo
• Discussion

d. Challenges in Gene
Therapy

e. Ethical Questions in
Gene Therapy
Quiz/FINAL Week 18 • Quiz
EXAM/Submission of
(3 hours)
Requirements from Ch.10- • Recitation
11
• Final Exam

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V. COURSE REQUIREMENTS AND EVALUATION CRITERIA

Students will be graded according to the following criteria:

Quizzes/Chapter Test - 34%
Term Examinations - 33 %
Assignments/Recitation/Exercises - 33 %
Total 100 %

Minimum passing score is 75%. The final grade is computed by multiplying the tentative grade by 2 plus the midterm grade, divided by 3. The highest grade is 1.00 and
the lowest passing grade is 3.00. Failure to comply with one of the above criteria, the student gets a grade of 5.00 or incomplete.

VI. REFERENCES

• Anderson, Philip W. <More is Different4One More Time,= in More is Different: Fifty Years of Condensed Matter Physics, ed. N. Phuan Ong and Ravin N. Bhatt,
Princeton University Press, 2001.
• Balakrishnan, Janaki and B V Sreekantan, eds. Nature’s Longest Threads: New Frontiers in the Mathematics and Physics of Information in Biology, World Scientific,
2014.
• Caoli, Olivia. <A History of Science and Technology of the Philippines,= in Analysis of Conditions for National Scientific and Technological Self-Reliance: The
Philippine Situation, Quezon City: University of the Philippines, 1986.
• Dayrit, Fabian. <Sustainable Development: An Evolving Paradigm for the 21st Century,= in Stellar Origins, Human Ways: Readings in Science, Technology, and
Society, ed. Ma. AssuntaCuyegkeng, Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2011.
• Ecker, David J. Germ Catcher, Scientific American, 2014.
• Floridi, Luciano. The Fourth Revolution: How the Infosphere is Reshaping Human Reality, Oxford University Press, 2014.
• Feynman, Richard. <The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: What Is and What should be the role of scientific culture in modern society= in The Best Short Works of
Richard Feynman, pp. 973115, Perseus Books,1999.

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• Gripaldo, Rolando. <The Concepts of the Public Good: A View from the Filipino Philosopher= in The Making of a Filipino Philosopher and Other Essays, pp. 82-100,
National Bookstore, 2009.
• Heidegger, Martin. The Question Concerning Technology and Other Essays, HarperCollins, 1982.
• Hickel, Jason. <Forget 8developing9 poor countries, it9s time to 8de-develop9 rich countries,= The Guardian, Online: http://www.theguardian.com/global-development-
professionals-network/2015/sep/23/developing-poor-countries-de-develop-rich-countries-sdgs.
• Lehrer, Jonah. How We Decide, Mariner Books, 2010.
• Maboloc, Christopher Ryan. <Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing= in Ethics and Human Dignity, 15-23, Rex Bookstore, 2010.
• McNamara, Daniel J. in <A Return to the Beginning,= in Stellar Origins, Human Ways: Readings in Science, Technology, and Society, ed. Ma. AssuntaCuyegkeng,
Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2011.
• Rodriguez, Socorro M. <Philippine Science and Technology: Economic, Political and Social Events Shaping Their Development,= 1996
• Von Baeyer, Hans Christian, Information: The New Language of Science, Harvard University Press, 2005.

VII. ADDITIONAL READINGS

Prepared by: Noted Approved:

STS FACULTY MEMBERS DR. R.

Subject Teacher Dean es
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