
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND SOCIETY (2024 - 2025)
The course deals with interactions between science and technology and social, cultural, political, and economic contexts that shape and are shaped by them.
This interdisciplinary course engages students to confront the realities brought about by science and technology in society. Such realities pervade the personal, the public, and the global aspects of our living and are integral to human development. Scientific knowledge and technological development happen in the context of society with all its socio-political, cultural, economic, and philosophical underpinnings at play. This course seeks to instill reflective knowledge in the students that they are able to live the good life and display ethical decision making in the face of scientific and technological advancement.
This course includes mandatory topics on climate change and environmental awareness.

Purposive Communication
Purposive
Communication is a three-unit course that develops students’ communicative
competence and enhances their cultural and intercultural awareness through
multimodal tasks that provide them opportunities for communicating effectively
and appropriately to a multicultural audience in a local or global context. It
equips students with tools for critical evaluation of a variety of texts and
focuses on the power of language and the impact of images to emphasize the
importance of conveying messages responsibly. The knowledge, skills, and
insights that students gain from this course may be used in their other
academic endeavors, their chosen disciplines, and their future careers as they
compose and produce relevant oral, written, audio-visual and/or web-based
output for various purposes.

The Andragogy of Learning
This course is focused on the
application of adult learning principles and learning styles in implementing
training programs. The student teacher will be given opportunities to
experience the role of facilitator rather than a lecturer.