SCIENCE

TECHNOLOGY
and SOCIETY
Section Day Time Room
1D MW 5:30 – 7:00 204
1E S 2:00 – 5:00 205
1F S 11:00 – 2:00 JHS 210
1G TTH 5:30 – 7:00 203
ABOUT THE SUBJECT
● 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)
• An interdisciplinary field of study that seeks to explore and understand the
many ways that modern science and technology shape modern culture,
values, and institutions, and how modern values shape science and
technology.

Course Code: G.E 7

Course Credits: 3 Units
Prerequisite: None
CHAPTER 1 Lesson 1: Historical Antecedents which
Changed the Course of Science and
Technology
GENERAL Lesson 2: Intellectual revolutions that
CONCEPTS AND define society
Lesson 3: Science and Technology and Its
HISTORICAL Role in Nation Building
DEVELOPMENT
Lesson 1: The Human Flourishing in Terms CHAPTER 2
of Science and Technology
Lesson 2: The Good Life
SCIENCE,
Lesson 3: When Technology and Humanity TECHNOLOGY AND
Cross
Lesson 4: Why the future does not need
SOCIETY AND THE
us HUMAN
CONDITION
CHAPTER 3 Lesson 1: The Information Age
Lesson 2: Gene Therapy versus Stem
Cell Therapy

SPECIFIC Lesson 3: The Role of Genes in Heredity

Lesson 4: Biodiversity and Healthy

ISSUES IN
Society
Lesson 5: The Nano World

STS
 CLIMATE CHANGE AND ENERGY
CHAPTER 4 CRISIS

CHAPTER 5 ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS

CHAPTER 6 ALTERNATIVE ENERGY RESOURCES

 REQUIREMENTS

1. Attendance
2. Quizzes
3. Projects/Outputs (Individual or Group/Research/Notebook)
4. Reporting (Individual/Group)
5. Term Examination (Prelim, Midterm, Semi-Final, Final)
GRADING SYSTEM

Class Standing 70%

Quizzes 20%
Outputs/Laboratory Works 25%
Participation/Recitation 15%
Attendance 10%

Examination 30%
Total 100%
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ENROLL
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SUBMIT
LET’S LEARN
SOMETHING!
 INTRODUCTION
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY:
DEFINITION, PURPOSE
 WHAT IS SCIENCE?
- Is a concept, which originated from the latin concept “SCIENTIA” that means “KNOWLEGDE”.

1. Systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanation
and predictions about the universe (Wikipedia).

2. Systematic study of the structure and behavior of the natural and physical world, or knowledge
obtained about the world by watching it carefully and experimenting (The Cambridge English Dictionary).

3. System of knowledge covering general truth of the operation of general laws especially as obtained
and tested through scientific method (Merriam Webster).

4. System of acquiring knowledge. It is an organized systematic field of study (Science made simple).

5. Systematized knowledge, or study dealing with a body of facts or truths systematically arranged and
showing the operation of general laws through observations and experimentation (explorable.com)
 NATURE OF SCIENCE
1. Science is a subject to change as new
evidences are found;
2. Science is derived on the observation of
the natural world;

3. Science is creative;

4. Science is based on theoretical findings.

 PURPOSE OF SCIENCE
1. Science explains everything that surrounds the natural world and
its components. It provides ways for us to understand how it works
and operates;
2. Science builds knowledge for the purpose of application and
greater understanding;
3. Science seeks ways to solve existing problems confronting human
life;
4. Science helps in the development of technology;

5. Science delves on current facts to construct new explanations to

existing realities.
 WHAT IS TECHNOLOGY?
- came from the greek term “TECHNE” which means ART or SKILL.

- the application of scientific knowledge to the practical aims of human life

or, as it is sometimes phrased, to the change and manipulation of the human
environment.

- Is the creation, usage and knowledge of tools,

techniques, crafts, systems, or methods of
organization, to solve a problem or serve some
purpose or end.
 PURPOSE OF TECHNOLOGY
1. Technology has the purpose of improving the environment so that resources may
be sustained for future generations.

2. Technology simplifies human activities for daily survival.

3. It provides greater sustainability to communities and societies through

efficiency in resources such as in the purification of water, manufacturing services
and the like.
4. Technology facilitates growth and innovation as it creates a higher and
improved standard of living.
 ACTIVITY 1:

Make a 3 paragarph essay on the topic:

How Technology
Affects our Lives?
RUBRICS FOR ESSAY:
 Thank you
see you next
meeting!