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This module aims at improving students’ scientific literacy level by exploring the literary and cultural incidence of the scientific and technological revolutions that have defined modernity. The module revolves around the structural axes of belief and scepticism. Science as language, method, myth, and outlook defines contemporary life and thought, but is consistently met with resistance and outright rejection, even as new technologies are adopted. Scientists furnish answers to multiple crises but do not always find the credibility they need to implement desperately needed solutions. What is it about science and technology that proves simultaneously so wondrous and so horrifying? Literature and culture provide key pathways of interrogating these patterns and explaining the multifarious social and political responses to ‘progress.’