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Course syllabus - Technology in organizations and society
Scope
7.5 credits
Course code
IEO107
Valid from
Autumn semester 2021
Education level
First cycle
Progressive Specialisation
G1N (First cycle, has only upper-secondary level entry requirements).
Main area(s)
Business Administration
School
School of Business, Society and Engineering
Ratified
2021-01-22
Literature lists
Course literature is preliminary up to 8 weeks before course start. Course literature can be valid over several semesters.
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Books
Textbook
Key Concepts in Science and Technology Studies
Studentlitteratur AB, 2021 - 214 sidor
ISBN: 9789144133638 LIBRIS-ID: 0cczm41pxh7whd5w
Reference literature
Along with the textbook, choose one of the following texts:
Defiant Earth : the fate of humans in the Anthropocene
Cambridge, UK : Polity Press, 2017 - xiv, 185 pages
ISBN: 9781509519750 LIBRIS-ID: 21711642
The logic of care : health and the problem of patient choice
Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2008 - xii, 129 s.
ISBN: 9780415453424 LIBRIS-ID: 10918841
TechnoFeminism
Cambridge, UK : Polity Press, 2004 - viii, 148 s.
ISBN: 074563043X LIBRIS-ID: 9047329
The platform society : public values in a connective world
New York : Oxford University Press, [2018] - 226 sidor
ISBN: 9780190889760 LIBRIS-ID: 3c7mgscn11jsm50l
Race after technology : abolitionist tools for the new Jim code
Cambridge : Polity Press, 2019 - 285 sidor
ISBN: 9781509526406 LIBRIS-ID: 6jc5462w4mmq6xf6
Digital organizing : revisiting themes in organization studies
London : Red Globe Press, 2020 - x, 272 pages
ISBN: 9781137604910 LIBRIS-ID: gtnldxswdzxr6s4f
Emerging approaches to educational research : tracing the sociomaterial
Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2011 - 215 p.
ISBN: 9780415570916 LIBRIS-ID: 12202768
Science, technology and the ageing society
Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2018 - 228 sidor
ISBN: 9781138344662 LIBRIS-ID: nxx3msh0lp6p0ntg
Objectives
The purpose is to guide students to critically approach the main challenges related to technological development in organizations and society at large. Several theoretical frameworks are presented throughout the course in order to analyze the relationship between social processes and technological development, in particular with regard to sustainability issues broadly meant. This is a distance course that students can attend while working full time. As the course is given in English, applications can be submitted from all over the world.
Learning outcomes
1. Problematize the relationship between technology and society .
2. Use a proper scientific terminology when communicating and presenting, in writing.
3. Demonstrate the ability to integrate interdisciplinary knowledge to analyse the complexity of contemporary challenges.
Course content
The course focuses on technological change, organizational processes, and social challenges, and introduces theoretical tools to critically interpret the relationships between them.
Tuition
Since the course is a distance learning course, the teaching will be in the form of online lectures, published on the course web platform.
Requirements
General entry requirements
Examination
Assignment (INL1) 4 hp. Grades Excellent (A), Very good (B), Good (C), Satisfactory (D), Sufficient (E), Insufficient, complementary work possible (Fx), Insufficient (F)
Exam requiring articulating an answer to open question(s) that asks for reasoning on specific concepts by using them properly in relation to others.
Learning outcomes 1-2
Assignment (INL2) 3,5 hp. Grades Excellent (A), Very good (B), Good (C), Satisfactory (D), Sufficient (E), Insufficient, complementary work possible (Fx), Insufficient (F)
Essay in which one theme addressed in the course is discussed using scholarly literature.
Learning outcome 3
A student who has a certificate from MDU regarding a disability has the opportunity to submit a request for supportive measures during written examinations or other forms of examination, in accordance with the Rules and Regulations for Examinations at First-cycle and Second-cycle Level at Mälardalen University (2020/1655). It is the examiner who takes decisions on any supportive measures, based on what kind of certificate is issued, and in that case which measures are to be applied.
Suspicions of attempting to deceive in examinations (cheating) are reported to the Vice-Chancellor, in accordance with the Higher Education Ordinance, and are examined by the University’s Disciplinary Board. If the Disciplinary Board considers the student to be guilty of a disciplinary offence, the Board will take a decision on disciplinary action, which will be a warning or suspension.
Grade
Excellent, Very good, Good, Satisfactory, Sufficient, Insufficient, complementary work possible, Insufficient
Interim Regulations and Other Regulations
This course partially overlaps with IEO101 regarding some theoretical frameworks. However, while IEO101 is thematically driven (lectures and guest lectures organized around a specific theme), this course is not theme-based. Examinations in these two courses are not overlapping as they are designed according to a different structure of the courses.