Teaching will consist of a mixture of lectures, video screenings and exercises while the students will investigate historical or topical cases that problematize the complex relationship between technology, science, politics, economics, gender and activism. Lectures provide theoretical foundations and walk-through examples of the entanglement of society with innovation development. The exercises focus on students discussing and applying the central concepts, such as social construction of technology, human/nonhuman symmetry, epistemological activism, performativity, cyborg, open innovation, and social innovation, in group work, role play, student presentations, lectures, feedback, plenum debate, social media experiments and in writing. In the 15 Point version of the ITS course, compared to the 7.5 ECTS-version, the students participate in extra guidance and seminar activities
The exam consists of hand-in by groups of one to four students. A report written by one student should be 13 pages. The report written by groups of 2-4 persons must consist of an introduction of 3 pages and a conclusion of 3 pages, both with shared responsibility and 10 pages essay from each, individual responsibility.