Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
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2504235 Science, Technology and Humanities | OB | 2 | 1 |
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To know the differences and influences between technological change and cultural change.
To become familiar with the major technological transitions.
To become familiar with the concepts of material culture.
Week 1
Conceptions of culture: biological and anthropological
Conceptions of culture: critical
Week 2
Technique as material culture
Artefacts: design
Week 3
Artefacts: senses
Experience and affordances
Week 4
The shaping of experience
Practice and evaluation
Week 5
Landscapes: the technique of the gaze
Audiotopies
Week 6
Aromas and flavours of modernity
Touch and technique
Week 7
Practice and evaluation
Metaphysical conception of technology
Week 8
Critical conception of technology
Dialectical conception of technology
Week 9
Technology and culture: historicity
Paradigms and revolutions in technology and culture
Week 10
Practice and evaluation
Matter and design
Week 11
Paradigms and revolutions in energy
Work and energy
Time and work
Week 12
Informational transitions
Writing cultures
Week 13
Immaterial representations
Digital revolution
Week 14
Practice and evaluation
Fourth industrial revolution
Lectures.
Cooperative learning.
Text discussion.
Classroom practices.
Essay writing.
Seminars.
Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.
Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Type: Directed | |||
Learning exercises | 16 | 0.64 | 2, 3, 8, 5, 6, 1 |
Lectures | 33 | 1.32 | 7, 2, 4, 8 |
Type: Supervised | |||
Essay supervision | 4.25 | 0.17 | 3, 5, 6, 1 |
Type: Autonomous | |||
Essay writing and personal study | 92.75 | 3.71 | 7, 2, 4, 8, 5, 6, 1 |
Entrega de ensayos y exposiciones en clase 25%.
Examen parcial 1 25%, 2 horas.
Examen parcial 2 25%, 2 horas.
Pruebas de duración breve en horario de clase 25%.
In the event of a student committing any irregularity that may lead to a significant variation in the grade awarded to an assessment activity, the student will be given a zero for this activity, regardless of any disciplinary process that may take place. In the event of several irregularities in assessment activities of the same subject, the student will be given a zero as the final grade for this subject.
Single assessment
Students who opt for the single assessment system will have to submit an essay (50%) and take an exam (50%), on the indicated date.
Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Essays and presentations | 25% | 0 | 0 | 7, 2, 3, 4, 8, 5, 6, 1 |
In-class tests | 25% | 0 | 0 | 7, 2, 4, 8, 6 |
Partial exam 1 | 25% | 2 | 0.08 | 7, 2, 4, 8 |
Partial exam 2 | 25% | 2 | 0.08 | 7, 2, 4, 8 |
Essential readings
Fernando Broncano. La escala de las cosas. Delirio, 2023.
George Basalla. La evolución de la tecnología. Madrid: Alianza Editorial, 1988.
Hans Blumenberg. Historia del espíritu de la técnica. Valencia: Pre-Textos, 2013.
Jacques Le Goff. Por otra Edad Media: tiempo, trabajo y cultur. Madrid: Taurus, 2020.
Javier de Lorenzo. Un mundo de artefactos. Madrid: Trotta, 2020.
Lewis Mumford. Técnica y Civilización. Logroño: Pepitas de Calabaza, 1934.
Lewis Mumford. El pentágono del poder. Logroño: Pepitas de calabaza, 1964.
Lewis Mumford. Arte y técnica. Logroño: Pepitas de calabaza, 1952.
Additional readings
David Edgerton. The Shock of the Old. Profile Books, 2008. Hay trad. cast.: Innovación y tradición. Historia de la tecnología moderna (Barcelona: Crítica, 2007).
George Basalla. The Evolution of Technology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.
Ian McNeill. An Encyclopedia of the History of Technology. London: Routledge, 1990.
Jared Diamond. Armas, gérmenes y acero. Barcelona: DeBolsillo, 2016.
Digital resources
Technology and culture: http://https://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/technology-and-culture
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