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Lecturer(s)
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Fürst Tomáš, RNDr. Ph.D.
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Daněk Tomáš, Mgr. Ph.D.
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Medová Nikola, Mgr. PhD.
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Course content
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The introductory lecture is dedicated to an overview of key technologies and innovations. From this list (typically more than 100 items), students and I will select the ten topics of most interest and in subsequent classes we will explore each of them in more detail in the form of reports. In the pilot run of this course, we looked in more detail at the following topics: - The Agricultural Revolution - Religion and Mythology - Nuclear technology, nuclear energy and nuclear weapons - Contraception - Vaccinations and antibiotics - Taxes and money - Terrorism
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Monologic Lecture(Interpretation, Training), Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Work with Text (with Book, Textbook)
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Learning outcomes
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Too often in the study of history, we focus on politics, armed conflicts, social structures, economics, or art. We often leave out the history of technology and innovations and their social impact. This course is designed to guide students through key technologies and innovations that have had a profound impact on the structure of human society.
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Prerequisites
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Student performance
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Recommended literature
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Collins, J. (2001). Good to Great. New York: Harper Business.
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Diamond, J. (1999). Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. New York: Norton.
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Kaufman, D. (1980). System One: An Introduction to Systems Thinking. Houston: Future Systems.
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Kurzweil, R. (2005). The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology. New York: Viking.
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Meadows, D. (2008). Thinking in Systems: A Primer.
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Noble, T. (2000). Social Theory and Social Change. London: Palgrave.
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Silver, N. (2012). The Signal and the Noise - Why Most Predictions Fail ? but Some Don't. USA: Penguin Group.
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Thomas L. FRIEDMAN. (2007). The world is flat. A brief history of the twenty first century.. Picador New York.
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