The intentions of this course are very noble.  As prospective engineers, we should be instilled with a sense of societal responsibility and ethics.  Unfortunately, this course seemed to deal more with aspects of 'project planning' and whatever fleeting whims the prof fancied.

Now don't get me wrong...  project planning is a very useful skill, but I thought the intention of this course was to cover, well, Technology and Society (which is the course's title after all).

I actually got an 'A+' in this course without putting in any real effort, other than writing a few simplistic quizzes (where any logical answer seemed to be considered correct) and proof-reading/editing/polishing-up my group's report.  Again, this goes to show that marks are completely arbitrary.

From my perspective, if I was teaching a course called 'Technology and Society', I would lecture about how major technological innovations have affected society for he worse/better and how ethics must be considered before new technologies are introduced.  I'd include case studies, and give some historical perspective.

From what I hear, they juggle profs through this course year-by-year just to find someone fit to baby-sit students for 3 hours a week.  I  honestly don't think that this course had any real benefit.  E-mail me and I'll send you whatever I have.

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