MSU system aspires to be a Center of Excellence in instruction, Research and Extension transforming itself into a premier and globally

MSU
competitive national peace university.
VISION

MSU System is committed to:

1. Lead in social transformation through peace education and integration of the Muslims and other cultural minority groups into the mainstream society;
MSU 2. Ensure excellence in instruction, research development, innovation, extension, and environmental education and discovery;
MISSION 3. Advance national and international linkages through collaboration and;
4. Demonstrates greater excellence, relevance, and inclusiveness for Mindanao and the Filipino nation.

1. To provide students with adequate background in Natural Sciences and Mathematics;

CNSM 2. To provide students with a strong foundation in their field of discipline relevant to their pursuit of higher educations;
GOALS 3. To provide scientific research; and
4. To upgrade the faculty members’ competence in instruction and research.

Derive from the MSU Charter Mandate, MSU-MAIN is a Commonly characterized by “Unity in Diversity” motivated with the following core
values:
1.Mutual Respect, the university stakeholders and constituents respect and understand individual regardless of race, culture, and religion.
2.Service Orientedness, the university stakeholders provide efficient and effective services.
3.Unity and teamwork, the university stakeholders collaboratively exercise in all aspect in accordance to national and global standards, interlink
with colleagues and in other academic institutions, government, and industry through sharing and collaboration of knowledge expertise and
MSU
towards career development and job placement.
CORE
4.Multiculturalism with Means-tested Benefits, acceptance and tolerance of other cultures geared towards social welfare and development.
VALUES 5.Academic Excellences, the university maintain its highest standard of excellence both in academic and service performance as it’s mandated
through instruction, research, extension, community, services, peace development, innovations, production and entrepreneurship, and
globalization.
6.Integrity and Trustworthiness, the university lead with Transparency, Respect, Understanding, Service and Teamwork (TRUST) in upholding
public trust. Different activities are or performed with the highest standard of honesty, accountability and transparency.
7.Nobility and Professionalism, the University ensure strong camaraderie’s among stakeholders, intellectual discourse among other colleagues
to encouraged upholding the great ideals of ethical behavior and genuine understanding with each other.
 GEC 108

COURSE NAME SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY

The course deals with interactions between science and technology and social, cultural, political, and economic
contexts that shape and are shaped by them. (CMO No. 20, series of 2013) This interdisciplinary course engages
students to confront the realities brought about by science and technology in society. Such realities pervade the
personal, the public, and the global aspects of our living and are integral to human development. Scientific
knowledge and technological development happen in the context of society with all its socio-political, cultural,
COURSE DESCRIPTION
economic, and philosophical underpinnings at play. This course seeks to instill reflective knowledge in the students
that they are able to live the good life and display ethical decision making in the face of scientific and technological
advancement.

This course includes mandatory topics on climate change and environmental awareness

NUMBER OF UNITS (Lec) Lecture – 3 units

PRE-REQUISITE None

CO-REQUISITE NONE

LEQRNING OUTCOMES
At the end of the course, the students should be able to:

Knowledge:
1. Articulate the impacts of science and technology on society, specifically Philippine society
2. Explain how science and technology affect society and the environment and its role in nation-building
3. Analyze the human condition in order to deeply reflect and express philosophical ramifications that are meaningful to the
student as a part of society
4. Define and demonstrate the impact of social media on the students’ life and Philippine society in general
Values
1. Imbibe the importance of science and technology in the preservation of the environment and the development of the Filipino nation
2. Critique human flourishing vis-à-vis the progress of science and technology such that the student may be able to define for himself/herself the meaning of the good
3. 3. Foster the value of a healthy lifestyle toward the holistic and sustainable development of society and the environment
Skills
1. Creatively present the importance and contributions of science and technology to society
2. Examine shared concerns that make up the good life in order to come up with innovative and creative solutions to contemporary issues guided by ethical standards
3. Illustrate how the social media and information age impact their lives and their understanding of climate change

COURSE OUTLINE

Common
Common
Week Topic/s Learning OUTCOMES Teaching
Assessment/Evaluation
Strategies
GENERAL CONCEPTS AND STS HISTORICAL DEVELOPMEN

1. To define S&T,
2. To compare S&T,
Definition and Role of Science and PowerPoint Slides/
1 3. To identify/enumerate the different roles of Quiz/Short Essays
Technology (S&T) Online discussion
S&T
4.
 Historical antecedents in which social 1. To trace the history of S&T in the world
considerations changed the course of (interaction of S&T and society)
science and technology Quizzes (10 points), ,
PowerPoint Slides/
2. Discuss the interactions between S&T and Youtube videos
(a) in the World: group poster
society throughout history Online discussion
presentation (40 points)
2-3 • Ancient,
15 Creativity
• Middle 3. Discuss how scientific and technological Activity: Standing
15 Content
• Modern Ages developments affect society and the on the shoulders of
10 Learning
environment Giants
Impact
(b) in the Philippines
4. Identify the paradigm shifts in history

Intellectual revolutions that defined society

a. Copernican 1. Articulate ways by which society is
Quiz (50 points)
b. Darwinian transformed by science and technology
PowerPoint Slides/ Graded Activity
c. Freudian Online group (30 points)
4 d. Information 2. To discuss/explain the paradigm shifts
discussion Videos
e. Meso American through history (how the intellectual
Activity Presentation (Group
f. Asian revolutions changed the way humans see the
Page)
g. Middle East world.
h. African

1. Discuss the role of Science and Technology

Science and Technology and Nation in Philippine nation building
Building
2. Evaluate government policies pertaining to PowerPoint Slides/
science and technology in terms of their Online group group project
a. The Philippine Government S&T Agenda
5 contributions to nation building discussion Videos presentation (group
b. Major development programs and
Small group page)
personalities in S&T in the Philippines
3. Identify actual science and technology Activity
c. Science Education in the Philippines
policies of the government and appraise their
d. Selected indigenous science and
impact on the development of the Filipino
technologies
nation

First Major Exam

SPECIFIC ISSUES IN SIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY

1. Link learned concepts to the development of

The information Age (Gutenberg to Social Reflection Paper on the
6 the information age and its impact on society PowerPoint Slides/
media) Film
Videos (Next Gen)
 2. Illustrate how the social media and the
information
age have impacted our lives

1. Discuss the major impacts both potential and

realized} of nanotechnology on society
PowerPoint Slides/
2. Analyze the issue through the conceptual STS Film showing
7 The Nano World Reaction Paper
lenses (“When Thing Get
Small”)
3. Critique the issue on its costs and benefits to
society
1. Determine the interrelatedness of society,
PowerPoint Slides/
environment, and health
Film showing (“The
8 Biodiversity and Healthy Society Reflection Paper
Philippine Seas” by
2. Appreciate the great biodiversity in the
Atom Araulo )
Philippines

Genetically Modified Organisms: 1. Discuss the ethics and implications of GMOs PowerPoint Slides/ Comments’ Debate
9
Science, Health, and Politics and potential future impacts Film showing (Group Page)

1. Identify the cause of climate change

2. Assess the various impacts of climate change Group

Climate Change and the Energy Crisis including economic, geopolitical, biological, PowerPoint Slides/ presentation of the
10
Environmental Awareness meteorological, etc. Film showing Awareness Campaign
Poster
3. Apply STS concepts to the issue of climate
change
 1. Describe gene therapy and its various forms;
discuss the prevalence of gene therapy in
daily life;
PowerPoint Slides
2. Explore the opportunities that may be
and Film Showing
opened by gene therapy in the future; and Creative Video
11 Gene therapy and Stem Cells Research (“Science Fiction:
Presentation
Stem Cell
3. Assess the issue’s potential benefits and
Research”)
detriments to global health.

4. Compare and contrast gene therapy and stem

cell therapy.

SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY AND THE HUMAN CONDITION

1. Analyze the human condition in order to
deeply reflect and express philosophical
The Human Person flourishing in terms of ramifications that are meaningful to the PowerPoint Slides
science and technology student as a part of society and Film Showing
(“The Magician’s
12 Technology as a way of Revealing Reflection Paper
2. Critique human flourishing vis-à- vis the Twin: C.S. Lewis
progress and the Case against
The use of Art as a way out of enframing of of science and technology so that the student Scientism”)
Modern Technology can define for himself/herself the meaning of
good life
1. Examine shared concerns that make up the
The Good Life good life in order to come up with
PowerPoint Slides
13 innovative, creative solutions to Reflection Paper
• What is good? and Film Showing
contemporary issues guided by
• Nicomachean Ethics ethical standards.
 PowerPoint Slides
1. Evaluate contemporary human experience to and Film Showing
strengthen the human person functioning in on:
society;
http://news.bbc.co.u
2. Discuss the importance of human rights in k/2/hi/technology/6
the face of changing social conditions and 4323
Group Discussion and
14 When technology and humanity cross technological development; and 07
Essays
http://www/theatlant
3. Identify laws or policies in the country that ic.com/magazine/arc
protect the well-being of the person in hive
technological advancement and ethical /2008/07/Is google
dilemmas. making us
stupid/306868/?

Final Exam

Grading System:

Activities - 70%
Quiz - 30%
100%

Passing Rate - 60%

Learning Resources:

1. Philosophy of Science (Encyclopedia) Scientific Progress, Scientific Revolutions

2. Floridi, Luciano. 2014. The Fourth Revolution, Oxford University Press
3. Caoli. History of Science and Technology of the Philippines.
4. Government Documents: 1. NEDA. National Development Agenda; Regional Agenda
 5. The Question Concerning Technology by Martin Heidegger
6. A Return to the Beginning by Daniel J. McNamara, SJ, in Stellar Origins, Human Ways (2011)
7. http://www.theguardian.com/globaldevelopment-professionalsnetwork/2015/sep/23/developing-poorcountries-de-develop-rich-countries-
sdgs
8. Book VI and Bk X Nichomachean ethics of Aristotle
9. What Is and What should be the role of scientific culture in modern society – Richard Feynman in the Pleasure of Finding Things Out:
The Best Short Works of Richard Feynman 1999 Perseus Books. USA pp97-115
10. The Concepts of the Public Good: A View from the Filipino Philosopher by Rolando Gripaldo in the Making of a Filipino Philosopher
and Other Essays, 2009, National Bookstore pp 82-101
11. Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing in Ethics and Human Dignity by Christopher Ryan Maboloc). Manila, 2010. Rex Bookstore pp 15-23
12. The ethical dilemmas of robotics http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6432307, stm
13. Book: “Alan Turing: The Enigma” (Andrew Hodges and Douglas Hofstadter)
14. Physics of the Future: How science will shape human destiny and our daily lives by the year 2100 (Michio Kaku, Doubleday, 2011)
15. Article: “Nanoethics: The ethical and Social of Nanotechnology” (Patrick Lin and Fritz Allhoff, Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley and
Sons, Inc. 2007)
16. Article: “Environmental Impacts of Nanotechnology and Its Products” (Zhang et. Al Proceedings of the 2011 Midwest Section
Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education, 2011)

Prepared by: Noted by:

PROF. ROSEMARIE M. TERIO DR. CAIRONESA P. DULPINA

Faculty, Department of Physics Chairman, Department of Physics

Approved by:

DR. HENRY P. ARINGA

Dean, College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics