Course Code: SST201
Synopsis
SST201 Sustainable Society Through Innovative Technology introduces students to sustainability and explores how today’s human societies can prevail in the face of global change, ecosystem degradation and resource limitations. It will focus on key knowledge areas of sustainability theory such as population growth, climate change energy, agriculture, water and food production. In each Unit, students will learn how technological innovation can solve the different types of resource limitations and pollution problems to create a sustainable ecosystem on Earth.
Level: 5
Credit Units: 5
Presentation Pattern: EVERY REGULAR SEMESTER
Topics
- Sustainable Society
- Technology
- Human Population
- Fossil Fuel and Nuclear Energy
- Renewable Energy
- Water
- Soil
- Food Production
- The Environment and Human Health
- Climate Change
- Pollution
- Sustainable Cities
Learning Outcome
- Discuss the history of technology in the development of human civilizations.
- Use case studies to demonstrate the ideas and practices of sustainability.
- Examine how industries, from a technological perspective, have changed significantly in the past two decades because of changes in technology
- Explain the concept of sustainable development to technologies that could meet current and future human needs.
- Apply skills of inquiry, including research, in the analysis of sustainability issues.
- Debate critically the different technologies at different scales of analysis that impact society.