GE – STS 101

SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND

SOCIETY
 What is the essence of SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
and SOCIETY?
It is the study of how society, politics, and culture affect
scientific research and technological innovation, and how
these, in turn, affect society, politics and culture.
https://en.unesco.org/themes/science-society
 What is the essence of SCIENCE,
TECHNOLOGY and SOCIETY?
It is the study of how science, including medicine, and
technology are defined and analyzed by the humanities and
social sciences.
https://en.unesco.org/themes/science-society
 What is the essence of SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY and
SOCIETY?
It is the study of the relationships between society, politics and
culture. An example of science, technology and society is a study of
how social media tools affect peoples politics.
 
https://en.unesco.org/themes/science-society
What is the significance of SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY and
SOCIETY?
is an interdisciplinary field that studies the conditions under which the production,
distribution and utilization of scientific knowledge and technological systems occur; the
consequences of these activities upon different groups of people. STS builds on the
history and philosophy of science and technology, sociology and anthropology, policy
studies, and cultural and literary studies; all of which shape the modes of analysis
deployed in the field. It brings together courses taught in a variety of departments, and is
divided into three principal areas: history of science and technology, philosophy of
science and technology, and social science approaches to technology and science
What are the expected outcomes of studying SCIENCE,
TECHNOLOGY and SOCIETY?
1. To understand knowledge-making practices within the disciplines of science,
and experience those practices directly through laboratory sciences,
mathematics, and/or engineering.

2. To examine science and technology as historical practices and as social

institutions, being able to explain the theories, concepts, and methods used in
such examination.
What are the expected outcomes of studying SCIENCE,
TECHNOLOGY and SOCIETY?
3. To explain in depth the way the social and cultural conditions of science
and technology interact with science and technology in a particular field.
4. To develop individual interests, through research paper, that engage a
technological controversy, policy problem, or application; or seek
comparable intellectual depth in a cognate discipline such as philosophy,
history or anthropology.
What are the expected outcomes of studying SCIENCE,
TECHNOLOGY and SOCIETY?
5. To demonstrate the ability to weave the major’s different strands
together in an intellectually robust way, through a senior thesis, the senior
integrative seminar, or comparable capstone experience.
6. To be well prepared for graduate work and future careers in the health
sciences, science writing, design and engineering, public policy,
environmental studies, law, or academia.
What is the importance of studying SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
and SOCIETY?
Technology, science and knowledge are important in modern
contemporary society. Essential questions include the following: How
does science and technology produce new products, new ways of
understanding, new ways of living and new institutions? Why is new
technology and knowledge so fundamental to us in the ways through
which we imagine the future?
What is the importance of studying SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
and SOCIETY?
Technology, knowledge and science are fundamental in modern contemporary
society. The understanding of how social, cultural and material elements influence
the production of new practices, new ways of understanding and new institutions
is vital in our understanding of contemporary postmodern society. Studies of
technology and science provides students with insight into how different
processes of knowledge are initiated and progressed, and how innovative
technological processes are developed, employed and increase in importance.
What is the importance of studying SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY and SOCIETY?
The study of technology and science gives insight into the understanding and knowledge of technology,
science and knowledge from the viewpoint of the humanities and the social sciences. Throughout the
course of study students will become familiar with amendments of social and cultural analyses of
modern science and technology in interaction with social, political, economical and cultural processes of
change.
In this manner, students will be provided with the academic basis for working with detailed analyses of
different forms of technologies and processes of knowledge, within business life/industry and
commerce, research and research-related work, political development, management of knowledge and
innovation. https://www.ntnu.edu/studies/msts