711-0136/05 – Social Reality in Engineering Practice (SRIP)
| Gurantor department | Department of Social Sciences | Credits | 2 |
| Subject guarantor | prof. PhDr. Jaromír Feber, CSc. | Subject version guarantor | prof. PhDr. Jaromír Feber, CSc. |
| Study level | undergraduate or graduate | Requirement | Compulsory |
| Year | 1 | Semester | summer |
| | Study language | English |
| Year of introduction | 2022/2023 | Year of cancellation | |
| Intended for the faculties | FS | Intended for study types | Bachelor, Follow-up Master |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
The aim of the course is to contribute to the understanding of the functioning of contemporary society and to develop the skills to reflect on current issues related in particular to technological progress, market economy, liberal democracy and environmental problems. It also aims to shape the personality of the engineer as a responsible member of society.
Teaching methods
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Summary
Upon completion of the course, students will gain fundamental knowledge in the social sciences and humanities relevant to engineering practice. They will learn to integrate engineering practice and the phenomenon of technology into a broader social context and to reflect critically on the productive, technical, economic and political subsystems of society. They will be able to critically assess technical progress and its implications in relation to ethical issues in science and technology.
Compulsory literature:
Recommended literature:
FRANSSEN, Maarten , LOKHORST Gert-Jan & van de POEL, Ibo. Philosophy of Technology. On-line.Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2023. Dostupné z: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/technology/[citováno 2025-03-03].
Additional study materials
Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
Activity on lessons, final written test.
E-learning
Other requirements
Active participation in teaching.
Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.
Subject syllabus:
1) The concept of civilized society, society as a system of relations and institutions, subjective and objective factor of society
2) Relationship between society and nature, ecological problems
3) Human material practice, man in the world of technology
4) Stages of development of technology and transformation of the relationship between man and society and nature
5) Production-technical subsystem of the company, technical progress and the concept of industrial revolution
6) Digitization and the concept of the fourth industrial revolution (Industry 4.0)
7) Economic subsystem of society and the concept of market economy
8) Political subsystem of society and concept of liberal democracy
9) Social structure of society and concept of human communication
10) Moral and legal order of society, value foundations of contemporary society and the concept of human rights
11) Material and spiritual culture, technology as part of material culture
12) Institutionalized forms of spiritual culture and the concept of scientific knowledge, science and the world of technology
13) Social morality and ethical issues of modern science and technology
14) Scientific-industrial revolution and environmental ethics
Conditions for subject completion
Occurrence in study plans
Occurrence in special blocks
Assessment of instruction