Courses Taught at the University of Twente
EVST - Environmental Values and Transformations Minor, Coordinator
During this minor you will learn the foundations of environmental values and sustainable transformations through environmental philosophy and critical social sciences. By engaging in different learning methods -field trips, debates, philosophical walks, ethnographic food diary, film creation, and others-- you will combine the most relevant academic literature and learn with (guest-)lectures from the Philosophy, KITES and other sections. Students have the opportunity to consider what this means in the context of their own disciplinary training. This is the first minor of its kind in the Netherlands.
Smart Solutions for Sustainable Cities: Sustainable Principles
Students are introduced into the opportunities and challenges in society’s transition towards sustainable cities. At the end of the module’s first block, students are able to critically assess the strengths and limitations of digitization and urbanization for sustainable futures in terms of social, environmental and economic justice with particular focus on the ethics of internet.
Technologies and Sustainable Use (TESU) - Philosophy of Science an Technology Masters Programme
Technology in use & non-use refers to the discussions about technologies in practice, the cultures, and habits that surround everyday life & applications. The purpose of this course is to extend our understanding of the influence that users and use pose to processes of conception, design, implementation & adoption of technologies. Sustainability further complicates these dynamics by challenging the kinds of use of technologies (wind power or electric mobility) as well as what value priorities are / should be placed through these user-technology relations. In this PSTS Master’s course we explore: How do user’s needs change the nature of the technology, and do we address the need for more-than-human-design?
IBA - Business Ethics (2020-2023)
Business Ethics is part of module 11 for the International and Business Administration Program. The course introduces students to different ways that companies and individual managers, employees or investors reason through ethical issues, including consequences of policy as well as of their own actions and due the products they design, produce, market, sell, and support. I introduce students to corporate social responsibility and stakeholder engagement theory which are student apply to real-world business ethics case studies.
CreaTe - Reflection Graduation Project
The object of this class is to explore the social and moral significance of design, the design process, and especially the role of one’s own life and work in crafting a better world in relation to their graduation project.
Students will engage in design as a reflective process for developing solutions to address real-world problems through the engagement of stakeholders, research, and interdisciplinary problem-solving.
CreaTe - Acting Responsibly: Innovation and Engineering Module (2020-2023)
The Acting Responsibly Component for Innovation and Entrepreneurship will provide you an opportunity to critically assess and reflect upon the role of ethics in innovation, design, professional conduct, and successful entrepreneurship. Issues addressed are: ethical theory (the foundations for reasoning about ethical issues), key issues relevant for developing new technologies and innovations including privacy, paternalism, the ontology of design, and factors relevant for user well-being. Throughout the module we will consider case studies and theory in ethics and technology to explore and critically assess the relationship of innovation and entrepreneurship to the larger well-being of society as a whole.
CreaTe - Ethics of AI
This course is part of the CreaTe programme and will teach you to apply and critically assess AI guidelines such as the UNESCO Ethics of Artificial Intelligence Recommendations. Issues addressed are: human rights, sustainability, risk, privacy, and multi-stakeholders engagement. This course will analyse the
CivEngineering - Social Sustainability (2020-2023)
Social sustainability is a key component to design in that it refers to the quality of life, well-being, and fundamental rights of the community that lives within the infrastructure we design. As civic engineers, being able to understand the linkage between design and social well-being is key to understanding the ways in which infrastructure can shift and change life-habits and everyday life. Additionally, infrastructure can exacerbate or mitigate dynamics already within society, such as equitable access to civic services, social disparities, and environmental health.