GE 6

Science
Technology
and Society
 WELCOME
Course Description: Science, Technology and Society
Course Code: GE 6
Time : 11:00 am – 12:00 nn
 GRADING SYSTEM Base Standard
Attendance → 10%
1st Year base 30
Performance Task → 35% 2nd Year base 25
( Research, Assignments, Teaching Demonstration,
3rd Year base 20
Oral Recitation, etc)
4th Year base 15
Quizzes → 15%
Examination → 40%
Prelim Examination – 10%
Midterm Examination – 10%
Final Examination - 20%
What is STS All About?
It is a well-established fact that science and technology impacts all aspects
of our lives. Science and technology is associated in all means with
modernity and is considered as an essential for rapid development. The state
of science and technology determines the socio-economic progress of a
country. A country who is not able to implement science and technology
would not progress and reap the benefits of development.
 COURSE OVERVIEW
• 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, 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.
The following diagram summarizes the concepts that will be covered in this course:
 COURSE OUTCOME
Upon completion of this course, the student should
be able to:
This module provides the context of the
relationship between science, technology,
and society with the objective of:
oIdentify the importance of science and
technology to society.
oDetermining the relationship between
science, technology, and society.
oPresent the timeline and paradigm shifts
of science and technology in history.
oDiscuss the interactions between science
and technology in society throughout
history.
oExplain how these scientific and
technological developments affect society
and the environment.
This module is further divided into five
lessons to achieve the objectives above and
gain a better understanding of the course
and its importance to our lives.

❑Stone Age
❑Bronze Age
❑Iron Age Introduction
❑Middle Ages to Science,
❑Pre-Colonial Philippines
Technology, and
Society
Lesson Objectives

❑Defining science, technology, and

society
❑Determining the relationship
between science, technology, and
society.
Give a short definition of the terms
below. Write your response in the
space provided in each sphere.
Do they relate to each other in
just one direction? Both
directions?
What is Science?
Science is a systematized body of
knowledge. Key to the definition is the word
“systematized”. That is to say that it follows a
process. The scientific method allows new
knowledge to be gathered in a systematic
manner.
Scientific Method
This process or system that science follows is embodied in
the scientific method:
1. Ask a Question
2. Gather information
3. Make a hypothesis (a possible answer/guess)
4. Test the hypothesis
5. Analyze the results
6. Make a conclusion
What is Technology?
Technology is the application of this
knowledge or applied science. You might think that
technology is about the smartphone that you have
or simply anything that needs to have electricity
running through it. Technology is an action taken to
meet a human need. The question now is how
society reacts to science and technology.
What is Society?
Where does society fit? Well, at its core is a three-letter word:
you. Yes, you. You are the society in all of this. The dictionary
defines society as a community, nation, or broad grouping of
people having common traditions, institutions, and collective
activities and interests. This community starts with you. To
clarify, society is not made by one person but by many if there
is a commonality of activity and interest between a group of
persons, then they can be called a society.
What is Society?
oThe students of this class. The students in a course. The
students in a school. The purok, barangay and city that you
live in. The users of a technology. Common activity and
interest are what it means to be a society.
oFrom the definitions, science is a systematized body of
knowledge. Technology is the application of this knowledge
or applied science. Knowledge from technology can be used
to further refine technology and further refine the body of
knowledge.
The question now is how society reacts to science and technology.
Consider the image below:

Here we see a committee is

constituted to supervise genetic
recombination technology
generated from the science of
Genetics. Knowledge gained in
the use of the technology can
be further used to inform
society if indeed the technology
is useful or not, needed or not,
good, or not.
The question now is how society reacts to science and technology.
Consider the image below:
The Fisheries Code was made to
regulate the growing field of
aquaculture which in turn was
born from the studies on fish.
However, aquaculture is not
only focused on fish but also
other aquatic animals such as
mollusks and shrimp. Studying
how to produce more of these
edible aquatic animals will lead
to increasing the aquaculture
technology.
Complete the table below. Identify 3 human needs and the technology made to
meet that need.
Human need Technology that solves
the need
1. 1.
2. 2.
3. 3.
Make your own example of the
inter relatedness of the three
spheres in the figure below.
Provide a clear explanation of your
answer on the space provided.