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773-120 Technology and Values

Elective Bach. Education subject.

Availability: Not offered in 1996.

Credit points: 16.7

Contact: Twelve 3-hour lecture/seminars.

Timetable: First or second semester.

Objectives:

On completion of this subject students should be able to:

• clarify the concept of technology;
• understand values and how they fit within traditional ethical frameworks;
• apply philosophic methodology by means of rational argument and conceptual analysis;
• discuss how ethics might be applied to technology and to education; and
• understand how technology influences our environment and impinges on our political ideals.

Content:

Definitions of technology; cost risk and cost benefit analysis; ethics and ethical theory; technology and the environment; technology and politics; technology and the human condition; implications for education.

Assessment:

A presentation of a class assignment of 1,500 words (30 per cent); an essay of 3,000 words (70 per cent).

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