Republic of the Philippines

North Eastern Mindanao State University

San Miguel Campus
San Miguel, Surigao del Sur
www.nemsu.edu.ph

COLLEGE OF FORESTRY, AGRICULTURE AND AQUATIC SCIENCES

OUTCOMES-BASED NEW NORMAL COURSE SYLLABUS IN
GE STS Science Technology and Society
1st Semester, A.Y. 2023 - 2024

PHILOSOPHY

NEMSU believes that higher education is an instrument for the improvement of life through democratized access to quality education in the development
of a well-rounded person.

VISION
A transformative leading University in Asia and the Pacific.

MISSION
NEMSU shall provide competency-based higher education training through transformative instruction, relevant research, sustainable extension and
production responsive to local, regional and global trends.
1. Produce competent and skilled graduates prepared for gainful employment;
2. Develop graduates who shall not only foster economic progress but also care for the environment, adhere to positive value system, and preserve
cultural heritage;

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3. Engage in high-impact research for instruction and develop technology for food security and renewable energy;
4. Collaborate with government and non-government agencies to help improve the lives of the marginalized groups; and
5. Promote cooperation/partnership among regional, national, and ASEAN institutions in Higher Education.

CORE VALUES
Competence
A combination of observable and measurable knowledge, skills, abilities, and personal attributes that contribute to enhance SDSSU
employee and student performance and ultimately result in organizational success.
Accountability
Responsibility for own actions, decisions and commitment to accomplish work in an ethical, efficient, cost-effective and transparent manner
manifesting the value of sound stewardship in the wise use of resources for common good.
Responsiveness
A prompt action, consistent communication, quality information, and a focus on providing a superior experience to stakeholders.
Excellence
The quality spectrum at exceptional levels demonstrated by learning outcomes and the development of shared culture of quality consistent
with the vision, mission and goals of University.
Service
Dedication for a continuous improvement of services, stakeholder’s relationships and partnership which stresses interdependence and
collaboration for a sustainable success of clients and their communities in helping build a just, peaceful, stable and progressive Filipino
nation.

NEMSU CARES…
These core values are not descriptions of the work we do, nor the strategies we employ to accomplish our University vision. They are
the core values that underlie our works and interactions as we internalize responsibilities to fulfil our mission. They are the basic elements of
how we go about our work and how we deal with stakeholders, molds students to become competent, innovative, globally competitive and
service-oriented.

GOALS

These are the specific goals in the four-fold functions of the University:

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KRA 1. Instruction

Develop highly competent, globally-competitive and morally upright graduates.

KRA 2. Research

Produce research for the advancement of knowledge, new technology and innovative approaches for competitive endeavors.

KRA 3. Extension

Empower the rural poor to improve their lives through transfer of technologies and knowledge.

KRA 4. Production

Sustain University operations through viable and profitable income generating projects.
PROGRAM GOALS:
The College of Teacher Education will produce competent teachers imbued with ethical values and ideals in a humane environment
supportive to national thrust for social transformation.
It is committed to provide students with;
1. Quality training in their respective field of specialization.
2. Knowledge, skills and values system responsive to the needs of the communities.
3. Quality education through relevant pedagogy, research, and use of information and Communication Technology for teaching and life-
long learning.
4. Productive activities relevant to their field of specialization.
5. Ethical values to maintain the moral of our society.

PROGRAM INTENDED LEARNING OUTCOMES:

A. Demonstrate the competencies required of the Philippine TVET Trainers-Assesors Qualifications Framework.

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 B. Demonstrate broad and coherent, meaningful knowledge and skills in any of the specific fields in technical and vocational education.
C. Apply with minimal supervision specialized knowledge and skills in any of the specific fields in technical and vocational education.
D. Demonstrate higher level, literacy, communication, numeracy, critical thinking, learning skills needed for higher learning;
E. Manifest a deep and principled understanding of how educational processes and role of the teacher in facilitating these processes in their
students;
F. Show a deep and principled understanding of how educational processes relate to larger historical, social, cultural, and political processes;
G. Apply a wide a range of teaching process skills (including curriculum development, lesson planning, materials development, educational
assessment, and teaching approaches; and
H. Reflect on the relationships among the teaching process skills, the learning processing in the students, the nature of the content/subject matter,
and other factors affecting educational processes in order to constantly improve their teaching knowledge, skills and practices.

COURSE CODE : GE STS

COURSE DESCRIPTIVE TITLE : SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY
COURSE PRE-REQUISITE : None
CREDIT UNITS : 3 Units
NO. OF HOURS : 54 Hours

COURSE DESCRIPTION :
The course deals with interactions between science and technology and social, cultural, political, and economic contexts that shape and are shaped by
them. (CMO No. 20, series of 2013). 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.

COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES:

At the end of the semester the students must be able to:

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 1. Discuss the Scientific, and Technological developments in the Philippines
2. Identify the inventions and discoveries that changed the world over the course of history.
3. Explain how Science and Technology affected the society and environment and vice versa.

Detailed Course Syllabus Matrix

Time Course Learning Outcomes Topics/Content Instructional Assessment Remarks
Frame Methodology
I. Course Orientation

1 VMGO of SDSSU and the Read VGMO

College/Department Comment and share Oral Quiz
Discuss school/class related policies ideas thru messenger
affecting grading, discipline, retention, Course outline, policies,
promotion, requirements, VMGO, Course rules and regulations
Outline and Syllabus.

Week 2-5  Discuss the broad ideas of I.GENERAL CONCEPTS  classroom/ G- Assignment CLO1, CLO2
science, technology, and society, as well AND STS HISTORICAL drive online
as their relationships over time; DEVELOPMENTS platform ‘Oral Recitation
A. Introduction to Science,
 List the innovations and Technology and Society  learning modules Quiz
discoveries that have shaped history and
the way the world has altered over time.
 Explain how science and  The Myths of
technology have influenced and been Science Activity
influenced by social circumstances over  Group Discussion
the course of three historical eras.
 List historical innovations and
discoveries that have altered the
trajectory of human history; and
 Talk about the technological and B. Science, Technology and Quiz CLO2,CLO3
 classroom/ G-
scientific advancements in the Society: World History Assignment
drive online
Philippines.

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 platform Group report

 learning modules

 Graphic organizers
 Charts
 Lecture,
Power point presentation

CLO1
 Talk about how science and
C. Science, Technology and
technology are helping to strengthen the
Society: Philippine History
Philippine country;

 Assess government initiatives in

the fields of science and technology in
CLO3
terms of their value to the country;
D. Enlightenment in the
Seventeenth Century
 Identify the government's actual S
and T policies and evaluate their
influence on the growth of the Filipino
CLO2,CLO3
nation.
E. Science and Technology
and Nation Building

 Determine several conceptions of II.STS AND THE HUMAN CLO2,CLO3

human flourishing; CONDITION  classroom/ G- Long Quiz
Week 6-7  Describe how the scientific a) The Human Person drive online

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 Flourishing in terms of platform Assignment
Science and
method was developed and the Technology  learning modules Group report CLO3
reliability of science; The Human Person
Assessing human flourishing in light of Flourishing in terms of  Think-pair-Share
technological and scientific advancement Science and Technology activity
will enable individuals to determine what  Lecture,
a fulfilling life is for them. Power point
presentation

The Good Life

CLO3
 Group Activity: Long Quiz
The task will encourage
students to conduct out- Assignment
reach activity to different
areas where they could Group report
 Discuss the idea of a good life share awareness and
and its components as proposed information dissemination
by scientists; with regards the status of
 Investigate the laws of science our environment and
and technology in order to live a nature.
fulfilling existence; and
Apply inventive and new approaches to
today's problems while keeping moral
principles in mind.

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Week 8
MIDTERM EXAM
EXAMINATION

Week 9-17  Discuss fundamental legal When Technology and Short Video: Stephen Reflective essay CLO2, CLO3
documents that guarantee human Humanity Cross Hawking: AI could spell
rights and safety in the face of the end of Human Race Assignment
scientific and technological
advancements; and Quiz
Imagine a visual representation of the Why does the Future not
benefits and drawbacks of technology for Need Us? Group
humanity. report

 Identify various theories of human Human Flourishing  classroom/ G- Reflection CLO2, CLO3
flourishing; drive online Insight Paper
 Learn more about the platform
Oral Recitation
development of science and
 learning modules
technology in Discover Human Assignment
Flourishing;
 Conceptualize your own ideas  Short Film Viewing Quiz
about the flourishing of humans. Short Film: Magician's
Twin (C.S. Lewis) Group report
Analyze the human condition to Short Film: Watermills
communicate philosophical (Akira Kurosawa)
implications that have deep
meaning for the students as
members of society.
 Describe the importance of IV. SPECIFIC ISSUES IN  classroom/ G- Oral Recitation CLO1,CLO3
biodiversity; SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, drive online
 Discuss the consequences of AND SOCIETY platform Assignment
a.Biodiversity and Healthy
human abuse of genetic
Society  learning modules Quiz
modification.
 Group report

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 I. Give a rationale that could  Presentation of video
lead to the extinction of  Advocacy
humans. Advertisement
 Play
 Debate about the
STS and Medicine
 Class discussion
about the videos
presented

 Examine the history of the printing b.The Information Age  classroom/ G- Oral Recitation CLO1, CLO3
press and the World Wide Web; drive online
 Determine how people have platform Assignment
contributed to science,
 learning modules Quiz
technology, growth, and
development;  Group report
 debate on the truths
Ascertain how language,
about information
environment, and health relate to
 Lecture and class
society.
discussion

 define the major potential and c. Nano World  classroom/ G- Assignment CLO3
realized impacts of drive online
nanotechnology on society; platform Quiz
 analyse nanotechnology through
 learning modules Group report
the conceptual STS lenses; and

examine the costs and benefits to Oral recitation
 Reporting
society of nanotechnology
 Discussion
Remake me Game

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  Identify issues on Genetically d.Gene Therapy  Graphic organizers Reflective Paper CLO1,CLO3
Modified Organisms GMOs);  Lecture,
 Discuss different implications and Power point Assignment
impact of GMOs; and presentation
Quiz
 Create a research paper on the
impact of GMOs in the Philippine Group report
context.
Illustrate a Genetically Modified
Organism and its potential
impacts on society.
 define climate change; e. Climate Change, Energy  classroom/ G- Long quiz CLO3
 discuss its causes and effects; and Crisis and Environmental drive online
reflect the concept of climate change Awareness platform Assignment
through picture analysis.
 learning modules Quiz

 Group report
 Lecture and
discussion
 Power point
presentation
Video viewing
Week 18 FINAL EXAMINATION

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COURSE REFERENCES
Bautista,D et al(2018) Science,Technology and Society MaxCor Publishing House Inc.132 Kalayaan Avenue, Diliman Quezon Cty pp. 15-9.

Serafica, J. et.al, (2018). Science, Technology, and Society. Rex Book Store, Inc. (RBSI), 856 Nicanor Reyes Sr. St., Sampaloc Manila. pp 20-24.

Who's Who in Evolutionary Theory: A History. Retrived on May 1, 2017 @ http://www.bio.miami.edu/dana/160/160S16_2print.html

Rabago, L Ph. D. et.al. Science and Technology IV. Vival Publishing House. Quezon City. Retrieved on 2016

Cake cutting. Retrieved on May 2, 2017 @ http://firstwefeast.com/eat/2014/06/mathematically-perfect-way-to-cut-a-round-cake

Bunch, Bryan and Hellemans, Alexander. The History of Science and Technology. New York. Houghton Mifflin Company. 2004

Development, 6: 69-79.Retrieved on 2016 Press. Accessed on 2016

Torres, E and Domingo, R. W. SC reverses ruling on Bt ‘talong’ tests @inquirerdotnet

Philippine Daily Inquirer / 02:31 AM July 28, 2016. Retrieve on May 13, 2017 @ more: http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/800262/sc-reverses-ruling-on-bt-talong-
tests#ixzz4hTa1EXXe

Co-benefits of climate policy. Retrieved on May 15, 2015 @ http://www.theclimatebonus.org/cobenefits.php

The IPCC Assessment Reports: https: //www.ipcc.ch/report/ar5/

The first Philippine Climate Change Assessment By OML and PAGASA

What is life? Retrieved on May 15, 2017 @ https://www.khanacademy.org/science/biology/intro-to-biology/what-is-biology/a/what-is-life

Top 10 Most Critically Endangered Species Philippines. Retrieved on May 16, 2017 http://www.topten.ph/2014/10/31/top-10-critically-endangered-species-philippines/

Executive Order No. 25 s. 2017. Signed on May 16, 2017. Retrieved on May 20, 2017 @ http://www.gov.ph/2017/05/16/executive-order-no-25-s-2017/

Mohan Malik, Ph.D. Technopolitics: How Technology Shapes Relations Among Nations. The Interface of Science , Technology & Security 21 Areas of Most concern, now
and ahead. Retrieve on May 20, 2017 @ http://apcss.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Mohan-Malik.pdf

Spheres of Society and Waves of Change. Retrived from http://www.cbpp.uaa.alaska.edu/afef/week1-intro-BA635.html

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 RUBRICS

WRITTEN OUT PUT / WRITTEN REPORT (assignment, essay, library/internet research, laboratory activity report and reflection)

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 Criteria Poor = 0 Fair = 5 Good = 10 Excellent = 15 Outstanding = 20
Focus/ Main No relevant ideas The essay poorly The essay is focused The essay is focused The essay is focused,
Point addresses topic and on topic and includes on the topic and purposeful, and reflflects
includes irrelevant few loosely related Includes relevant clear insight and ideas
ideas ideas ideas
Support No support for the Provides little main Supports main point Supports main point Persuasively supports
main point point with some with developed main point with
underdeveloped reasons and/or welldeveloped reasons
reasons and/or examples and/or examples
examples

Organization & No organization of Little organization of Some organization of Organizes ideas to Effectively organizes
Format ideas to build an ideas to build an ideas to build an build an argument ideas to build a logical,
(Paragraphs, argument argument argument coherent argument
Transitions)
Originality No adherence to the No experimentation Very little Suffificient Distinctive
(Expression of the theme Nor enhancement of experimentation to experimentation with experimentation with
theme in a concepts enhance concepts language and usage language and usage to
creative way) Does not exhibit to enhance concepts enhance concepts
creativity Applies basic creative Applies higher order
skills to relay ideas thinking and creative
skills to relay comp

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 DEMONSTRATION / ORAL PRESENTATION / RECITATION

Criteria Outstanding Excellent Good Fair Poor

Marks “10” Marks “9” Marks “7” Marks “5” Marks “3”
Understanding On the
Concept/Topic/
correctness of answer
Content /
Organization
Spontaneity of delivery

PARTICIPATION

Criteria Excellent Good Satisfactory Marginal Pass Fail

Marks “10” Marks “8” Marks “6” Marks “4” “0”
Always contributes to the Sometimes Occasionally Rarely contributes No participation at all
Frequency discussion by raising contributes to the contributes to the to the discussion in

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 and Quality thoughtful questions, discussion in the discussion in the the aforementioned
analyzing relevant issues, aforementioned ways aforementioned ways ways
building on others’ ideas,
synthesizing across readings
and discussions, expanding
the class perspective, and
appropriately challenging
assumptions and
perspectives.
Interaction during class/ Always a willing participant; Often a willing Occasionally a Rarely a willing
group activity routinely volunteers’ point of participant; often willing participant, participant,; never
view; Shows outstanding volunteers point of occasionally volunteers point of
leadership qualities through view; Very good volunteers point of view; Minimal
shared participation and participation; is view; Good participation; Shows
respect for others; keeps respectful of others and participation; appears little interest; doesn't
others on task, managing their point of view; interested; pay attention to other
time; Assumes responsibility makes sure that enthusiastic but talks group members; may
for effective functioning of the everyone gets a turn; over teammates or argue to get point
group conscious of time may "hog" tasks; tries across; helps group
to help group only when asked;
complete tasks; fools around; little
somewhat conscious emphasis on time
of time

Grading System for without Laboratory:

Class Standing - 40%

Examination - 40 %

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 Requirements - 20 %
TOTAL 100%

Date Revision :August 8, 2023

Date of Effectivity :August 14, 2023
Prepared by: Content Noted:

FOR. IRENE P.PORRAS FOR. ROSALIE F. ANOVER

Instructor Program Coordinator

Reviewed by:

BERNARDITA G. QUEVEDO, PhD

Dept. Chair. Forestry and Agricuture

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 Recommending Approval:

BERNARDITA G. QUEVEDO, PhD

Dean, College of Forestry, Agriculture and Aquatic Sciences

Approved by:

MARIA LADY SOL A. SUAZO, PhD

Vice President for Academic Affairs

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