Prerequisite/Recommended prerequisite for participation in the module

Content, progress and pedagogy of the module

Students who complete this module can:

Learning objectives

Knowledge

• explain anthropological study design and analysis
• identify and reproduce theories of either responsible technological innovation and production or technological expert cultures
• identify and explain the link between technology and its normative assumptions and implications
• identify interdisciplinary scientific problems in the intersection between technology and culture

Skills

• conduct an anthropological study and analysis on the relationship between technology and its underpinning social, cultural, organisational, institutional and ethical assumptions and implications, and critically evaluate these connections
• connect technological insight and anthropological study design and analysis, and on an interdisciplinary basis design new, responsible and innovative solutions
• translate and implement solutions to concrete actions
• communicate the results of their own anthropological research and analysis to experts, political, administrative and economic stakeholders and to the general public

Competences

• handle ethical dilemmas within the techno-anthropological field
• manage work and development situations that are complex, unpredictable and require new analysis and solutions
• independently initiate and lead interdisciplinary collaboration and assume professional responsibility
• independently take responsibility for, and regularly demonstrate, their own professional and interdisciplinary development and specialisation.

Type of instruction

The module will be implemented as problem-based and project-oriented work within the module's overall framework. The project work is supported by one or more supervisors.

Exam

Exams