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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.

    • Ratified date: 2021-11-19
    • Latest update: 2021-11-19

    Books

    Textbook

    Cozza, Michela

    Key Concepts in Science and Technology Studies

    Studentlitteratur AB, 2021 - 214 sidor

    ISBN: 9789144133638 LIBRIS-ID: 0cczm41pxh7whd5w

    Mandatory

    Reference literature

    Along with the textbook, choose one of the following texts:

    Hamilton, Clive

    Defiant Earth : the fate of humans in the Anthropocene

    Cambridge, UK : Polity Press, 2017 - xiv, 185 pages

    ISBN: 9781509519750 LIBRIS-ID: 21711642

    1. Theme: Environment

    Mol, Annemarie

    The logic of care : health and the problem of patient choice

    Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2008 - xii, 129 s.

    ISBN: 9780415453424 LIBRIS-ID: 10918841

    2. Theme: Health and Care

    Wajcman, Judy.

    TechnoFeminism

    Cambridge, UK : Polity Press, 2004 - viii, 148 s.

    ISBN: 074563043X LIBRIS-ID: 9047329

    3. Theme: Gender and Body

    Dijck, José van; Poell, Thomas; Waal, Martijn de

    The platform society : public values in a connective world

    New York : Oxford University Press, [2018] - 226 sidor

    ISBN: 9780190889760 LIBRIS-ID: 3c7mgscn11jsm50l

    4. Theme: Media Technologies

    Benjamin, Ruha

    Race after technology : abolitionist tools for the new Jim code

    Cambridge : Polity Press, 2019 - 285 sidor

    ISBN: 9781509526406 LIBRIS-ID: 6jc5462w4mmq6xf6

    5. Theme: Race

    Plesner, Ursula; Husted, Emil

    Digital organizing : revisiting themes in organization studies

    London : Red Globe Press, 2020 - x, 272 pages

    ISBN: 9781137604910 LIBRIS-ID: gtnldxswdzxr6s4f

    6. Theme: Organization and Work

    Fenwick, Tara J.; Edwards, Richard; Sawchuk, Peter

    Emerging approaches to educational research : tracing the sociomaterial

    Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2011 - 215 p.

    ISBN: 9780415570916 LIBRIS-ID: 12202768

    7. Theme: Education and learning

    Moreira, Tiago (university Of Durham

    Science, technology and the ageing society

    Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2018 - 228 sidor

    ISBN: 9781138344662 LIBRIS-ID: nxx3msh0lp6p0ntg

    8. Theme: Ageing

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.

Study guide

Grade

AF-skala

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.