Course detail

History and Philosophy of Technology

CVP-FITAcad. year: 2021/2022

The subject "History and Philosophy of Technology" represents an introduction into the particular stages of development of the technology with respect to the surrounding cultural climate and the philosophical streams on the background of which these particular chapters of the history take place. The subject deals also with the risk factors the civilization brings about, and suggestions are given how to overcome them.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

3

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

ThMgr. Milan Klapetek

Department

Continuing Education and Counselling Centre (CVP)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

The information transferred should provide the students with the knowledge of the amazing drama hidden behind an apparently cold and non-personal phenomenon of technology. The purpose is to establish links to the specific engineering subjects and to other branches of the culture.

Prerequisites

It is a course of the non-structured ending study program

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Teaching methods depend on the type of course unit as specified in the article 7 of BUT Rules for Studies and Examinations.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Not applicable.

Course curriculum

Not applicable.

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

The target of the subject is to instigate in the listener the awareness of glorious and many thousand years long history of the technology, and to give him/her the knowledge of relationships with the entity of human culture and the resulting ethical responsibility of any individual to whom technology should become a vocation.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

Not applicable.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Not applicable.

Recommended reading

Not applicable.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme B-OBN-P Bachelor's 1 year of study, winter semester, elective
  • Programme MKC-EEN Master's 0 year of study, winter semester, elective

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

ThMgr. Milan Klapetek

Syllabus

Od nejstarší industrie po megalitické stavby
Starověk a helénistická věda a technika
Středověk - technika ve stínu chrámu
Renesanční inženýři, nový obraz světa
Dlouhá cesta k parnímu stroji
Průmyslová revoluce v Anglii
Setkání vědy a techniky
Spalovací motor, turbina a nové možnosti
Elektřina od Thaleta k Coulombovi
Galvani a další
Elektromotorický princip na světě
Dějiny přenosu informací po jiskrovou telegrafii
Vynálezectví a etické souvislosti techniky dnes