Technology and Society
This course is designed to help students understand the impact of technology on individuals, organizations, and the planet. Through real-world examples, students will learn that intellectual property rights encourage future innovations. Students will discover how the digital economy will affect demographics, then visualize a smart city incorporating promising technologies they know of.
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Chinese,English
Learning Outcomes
Rundown:
- Intellectual Properties Pop Quiz: Economic rationales and main archetypes of IP – patent, copyright, trademark, registered design, secrecy
- Forecasting the Digital Economy: Using raw data sets on different industries’ outputs, students will use R Studio or LibreOffice to plot graphs to predict the growth of the digital economy and anticipate demographic impacts
- Painting the Future: Using creative media of their choice, students will create a poster to visualize their versions of a smart city by incorporating the most positively and negatively impactful technologies they know of
