Science, Technology and Society (GTSC)

The interdisciplinary courses in this category address:

  1. The role of technology in human history, and more specifically the importance of technology and technological innovation to various historical civilizations;
  2. How ideas about nature have evolved, leading to scientific and technological developments that impact societies around the world;
  3. How technology and science have far-reaching effects upon values, cultures, economy and the social, commercial and legal systems of different communities;
  4. What are the ethical and moral reasoning for the use of some technological developments around the world;
  5. How cultural, political, and economic values help to shape and direct technological developments, which in turn can have a profound effect on those same social values and the society that holds them;
  6. How different societies or communities respond and react to the advancement of technology.