Mid-Term Syllabus

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1. Definition of Science, Engineering, Technology, Environment, Society and
Development.
2. Concept of Technology (1) Bargaining strength (2) Colonization (3) Development mode
and (4) Black Box concept
3. Technological Functions
4. History of technology
5. Technology and Culture
6. Nature of technology (1) Complexity (2) Dependency (3) Valence (4) Scale
7. Social demand and Progress of Technology
8. Relation between technology and society Symbiosis and Ogburn theory
9. Relation between technology and environment Mathematical and Environmental stress
10. Relation between technology and development Cobb-Douglas production function
11. Development of new technology (1) Societal component (2) Societal direction (3)
Societal structure (4) Societal consumption
12. Side effects of technology
13. Control of technology
14. Technology and philosophy
15. Technology and Human Resource Development (HRD)