Science, Technology and Society (STS)

Summer, AY 2011-2012, 11:00-1:00 Mondays to Fridays

STS is a course offering under UP Dilimans RGEP (Revitalized General Education Program) with the following objectives: To study and understand how science and technology shapes our society- its culture, values and institutions -- and how such factors shape science and technology. To convey the message that science is not a collection of facts but is, at its core, a way of thinking and dealing with the world. To help the student gain a better understanding of the nature, as well as the cultural and political aspects of mathematics, science and technology. To convey the message that science and technology is vital across the disciplines. To help provide the foundation for responsible citizenship, by instilling the values of nationalism, and concern for the people and the world we live in.

The contents of this CD are pdf files of the notes/powerpoint presentations of all STS lectures this semester. You can use these as guide for your exam review (or aid for remembering the ideas in the lectures you listened to). But please do not circulate or distribute, as most of these are drafts and not yet for the public domain.
01 BUILDING IN A HAZARDOUS ENVIRONMENT Mark Zarco (Department of Civil Engineering) 02 CITIZENS PARTICIPATION IN PUBLIC FINANCE A Challenge to the Students Leonor M. Briones (National College of Public Administration and Governance) 03 CRACKING THE CODE Maria Corazon A. de Ungria (Natural Science Research Institute) 04 CULTURE, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY From Material to Immaterial Felipe P. Jocano, Jr. (Department of Anthropology) 05 EMERGENT PROPERTIES OF COMPLEX SYSTEMS Christopher Monterola (National Institute of Physics) 06 ISSUES ON WATER Ideas, Inventions and Solutions CP David (National Institute of Geological Sciences) 07 LANGUAGE, BIOLOGY AND CULTURE Dean Michael Tan (College of Social Sciences and Philosophy) 08 LOVE IN THE TIME OF THE INTERNET Cherrie Joy Billedo (Department of Psychology) 09 MATH IS LANGUAGE; TOOL AND A WAY OF SEEING Fidel R. Nemenzo (Institute of Mathematics)

10 MATH, SYMMETRY, AND OUR WORLD Jose Maria P. Balmaceda (Institute of Mathematics) 11 MEDICINE AND EMPIRE, PUBLIC HEALTH AND SELF-RULE IN COLONIAL PHILIPPINES Mercedes Planta (Department of History)

12 NATIONAL INDUSTRIALIZATION FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT Giovanni Tapang (National Institute of Physics) 13 NOTHING DARK ABOUT THE MIDDLE AGES, THE MEDIEVAL ORIGINS OF SCIENCE Benjamin M. Vallejo, Jr. (Institute of Environmental Science and Meteorology) 14 SCIENCE FICTION FILMS AND CRITIQUE OF SOCIETY Dean Rolando Tolentino (College of Mass Communication) 15 SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY Geoinformation in Everyday Life Rhodora M. Gonzalez (College of Engineering) 16 SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY How Biotechnology is Touching our Lives Cynthia Palmes-Saloma (National Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology) 17 SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND MUSIC Rowena Cristina L. Guevara (College of Engineering) 18 SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH, TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION AND ECONOMIC GROWTH Chancellor Caesar A. Saloma (College of Science) 19 THE (RE)PRODUCTION OF CREATIVE WRITING IN THE AGE OF COMPUTERS Jose Wendell P. Capili (Department of English and Comparative Literature)