Emerging and Cutting Edge Science and Technology

2023/2024

Content, progress and pedagogy of the module

Learning objectives

Knowledge

  • account for selected, sectorial, cutting-edge and emerging technological innovations
  • explain the role of the new technologies in the advancement of science
  • account for how technological problems and advances often create a demand for new scientific knowledge
  • discuss the societal relevance of particular emerging technologies
  • account for the potential risks of particular cutting-edge technologies

Skills

  • analyse how cutting edge science suggests new kinds of behaviors, including those not imagined before that lead to new technological trends and developments.
  • evaluate how the availability of new technology sparks scientific advancement
  • methodologically analyse how technology solves practical problems and serves human needs and also creates new problems and needs

Competences

  • analyse emerging technological products and processes
  • communicate with scientist, technicians, engineers and technologists using moderately technical terminology
  • identify and promote technological innovations for sustainable transitions

Type of instruction

A combination of lectures and workshops that include selected presentations from researchers and developers in science and technology that are representative of cutting-edge and relevant technological innovations. Alternatively organised as a project-oriented study group.

Exam

Exams

Name of examEmerging and Cutting Edge Science and Technology
Type of exam
Oral exam
ECTS5
Assessment7-point grading scale
Type of gradingInternal examination
Criteria of assessmentThe criteria of assessment are stated in the Examination Policies and Procedures
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Organisation

Study BoardStudy Board of Techno-Anthropology and Sustainable Design
DepartmentDepartment of Sustainability and Planning
FacultyThe Technical Faculty of IT and Design

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