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History of Technology, 6 ECTS credits.
/Teknikhistoria/
For:
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DPU
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EL
EM
IT
KA
KeBi
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Prel. scheduled
hours: 30
Rec. self-study hours: 130
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Area of Education: Humanities
Main field of studies: Other subjects
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Advancement level
(G1, G2, A): G1
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Aim:
This course provides fundamental knowledge and understanding of the long and complex historical process that has led to today‚s high technological society. Of particular significance is how the technological development constantly influences and is influenced by society‚s socio-economic development. In this way the course contributes to creating a bridge between the two scholarly traditions traditions from technology and the natural sciences and those from humanities and the social sciences.
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Prerequisites: (valid for students admitted to programmes within which the course is offered)
Note: Admission requirements for non-programme students usually also include admission requirements for the programme and threshhold requirements for progression within the programme, or corresponding.
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Organisation:
Lectures alternate with seminars on problem-oriented texts
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Course contents:
A general introduction is followed by a chronological presentation of developments from pre-historical times to the Industrial Revolution. The last two centuries are primarily dealt with thematically. Here follow examples of areas that are treated in lectures and seminars: pre-historic technical developments; the ancient world stagnation or progress?; the Middle Ages dark or dynamic?; early forms of transmission of technology; technology and natural sciences in the early modern era; the mobilisation of new sources of power; development of the infrastructure: the Swedish mining and manufacturing communities; the growth of large, new technical systems; and the modern technological debate. The focus is on western development but with an eye towards (a glance at) other cultures.
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Course literature:
The litterature is presented at the start of the course
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Examination: |
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Written examination
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6 ECTS
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Grades are given as ‘Fail’ or ‘Pass’.
To receive the grade Pass, in addition to passing the written examination, active attendance at all seminars is required. If a student is absent from a seminar, a written analysis of the text for that seminar must be submitted |
Course language is Swedish.
Department offering the course: TEMA.
Director of Studies: Eva K. Törnqvist
Examiner: Dick Magnusson
Link to the course homepage at the department
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