Not available in 2014
Previously offered in 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004
Investigates, through practical involvement, how design, manufacture and marketing can be used in a Technology Education setting, to achieve innovative solutions to practical problems.
| Objectives | It will provide opportunities for students to: 1. Create awareness of the complex influences on and effects of technology; 2. Develop attitudes and values towards the way technology is used by man; 3. Understand the influence on past, present and future technologies of social, environmental, political and economic systems, locally, nationally and globally; 4. Consider how ethical, cultural, economic and environmental factors influence the design of products, systems and environments; 5. Evaluate the roles individuals, communities and interest groups play in bringing about technological change and how these can be used in the school environment; 6. Develop problem solving and decision making skills within social and environmental issues and how these can be used in the school setting; 7. Become aware of the individual and commercial process that affect people's lives; 8. Be involved in the solving of supportable social problem which relates to their own or the cultures of others and how to use this process in the school curriculum; 9. Apply comprehensive and independent management of a design project commensurate with all influences and constraints; 10. Apply and develop knowledge, skills and experience that represent the students' understanding of sophisticated design and technology capability. |
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| Content | 1. Trends in science and technology and their social and environmental context, e.g. the changing environment, the media and its influences, the built environment, pollution, the industrial and commercial environment; 2. Inter-relationships between technological, natural and social systems; 3. Social, economic and political interests that inhibit and accelerate technological development. |
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| Replacing Course(s) | NA | ||
| Transition | NA | ||
| Industrial Experience | 0 | ||
| Assumed Knowledge | NA | ||
| Modes of Delivery | Internal Mode | ||
| Teaching Methods | Lecture
Tutorial |
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| Contact Hours | Lecture: for 2 hour(s) per Week for Full Term Tutorial: for 1 hour(s) per Week for 12 weeks |