Course detail

History and Philosophy of Technology

CVP-FIT Acad. year: 2024/2025 Summer semester

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

2

Entry knowledge

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

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.
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.

The study programmes with the given course

Programme MPC-IBE: Information Security, Master's, elective

Programme N-OBN-P: Common Offer, Master's, elective

Programme MPC-EAK: Power Systems and Communication Technology, Master's, elective

Programme MPC-EEN: Electrical Power Engineering, Master's, elective

Programme MKC-TIT: Communications and Informatics, Master's, elective

Programme MPC-KAM: Cybernetics, Control and Measurements, Master's, elective

Programme MPC-BTB: Biomedical Engineering and Bioinformatics, Master's, elective

Programme MPC-EVM: Electrical Manufacturing and Management, Master's, elective

Programme MPC-TIT: Communications and Informatics, Master's, elective

Programme B-OBN-P: Common Offer, Bachelor's, elective

Programme MPC-BIO: Bioengineering, Master's, elective

Programme MKC-EEN: Electrical Power Engineering, Master's, elective

Programme MPC-SVE: Power Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Master's, elective

Programme MPAD-BIO: Bioengineering (Double Degree), Master's, elective

Programme MPC-JAE: Nuclear Power Engineering, Master's, elective

Programme MKC-EVM: Electrical Manufacturing and Management, Master's, elective

Programme MKC-EKT: Electronics and Communication Technologies, Master's, elective

Programme MPC-EKT: Electronics and Communication Technologies, Master's, elective

Programme MPC-MEL: Microelectronics, Master's, elective

Programme MPC-AUD: Audio Engineering, Master's
specialization AUDM-TECH: Acoustics and Audiovisual Technology, elective

Programme MPC-AUD: Audio Engineering, Master's
specialization AUDM-ZVUK: Audio Production and Recording, elective

Programme BIT: Information Technology, Bachelor's
specialization BITP: Information Technology, elective

Programme MITAI: Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence, Master's
specialization NADE: Application Development, elective

Programme MITAI: Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence, Master's
specialization NBIO: Bioinformatics and Biocomputing, elective

Programme MITAI: Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence, Master's
specialization NCPS: Cyberphysical Systems, elective

Programme MITAI: Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence, Master's
specialization NEMB: Embedded Systems, elective

Programme MITAI: Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence, Master's
specialization NGRI: Computer Graphics and Interaction, elective

Programme MITAI: Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence, Master's
specialization NHPC: High Performance Computing, elective

Programme MITAI: Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence, Master's
specialization NIDE: Intelligent Devices, elective

Programme MITAI: Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence, Master's
specialization NISD: Information Systems and Databases, elective

Programme MITAI: Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence, Master's
specialization NISY: Intelligent Systems, elective

Programme MITAI: Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence, Master's
specialization NMAL: Machine Learning, elective

Programme MITAI: Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence, Master's
specialization NMAT: Mathematical Methods, elective

Programme MITAI: Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence, Master's
specialization NNET: Computer Networks, elective

Programme MITAI: Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence, Master's
specialization NSEC: Cybersecurity, elective

Programme MITAI: Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence, Master's
specialization NSEN: Software Engineering, elective

Programme MITAI: Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence, Master's
specialization NSPE: Sound, Speech and Natural Language Processing, elective

Programme MITAI: Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence, Master's
specialization NVER: Software Verification and Testing, elective

Programme MITAI: Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence, Master's
specialization NVIZ: Computer Vision, elective

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hours, optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

Syllabus