Study Guide

Objective

Students have internal capacities for understanding and working with complexity. Students can relate and respond to inner - often hidden - elements of systemic change. They can reflect their own and others’ thoughts, emotions and values in order to change the way they are in the world and with others. Students can combine different modes of knowing when working with complex challenges. They can build trust, take risks and cope with uncertainty and conflicting perspectives. Students can collaborate in multidisciplinary and multicultural teams.
To achieve these objectives the students will learn transformational skills for sustainable development, reflective capacity and intellectual skills needed for co-creating sustainable solutions.

The course focuses on these competencies: learning to learn, self-awareness and collaboration, critical and future-oriented thinking, internationality and multiculturalism.

Content

- Inner capacities of leadership, learning and innovating
- Inner Development Goals (IDGs)
- Transformative development challenges

Location and time

Virtual meetings in Zoom and working in Moodle learning environment.

Meeting times:

4.9.2024 full day on campus
1.10.2024 online 17-20
31.10.2024 online 17-20
26.11.2024 online 17-20

Note - the course continues until end of May 2025.

Spring 2025 Online meetings:
Week 6: Thu 6.2. 17-20 contact lesson, Zoom
Week 12: Wed 19.3. 17-20 contact lesson, Zoom
Week 16: Tue 15.4. 17-20 contact lesson, Zoom
Week 20: Tue 13.5. 17-20 contact lesson, Zoom

Teaching methods

Students will learn transformational skills, reflective capacity and intellectual skills needed to deal with complex challenges, to support human inner growth and for co-creating sustainable solutions.

Students will complete the course remotely, in small groups of 3-5 people, on a time-bound basis. The group is chosen at the beginning of the course and remains the same throughout the course. The delivery method includes both time-bound independent tasks and time-bound remote meetings and tasks in small groups. In addition, the delivery method includes webinars at regular intervals.

Note! This course focuses on students’ personal inner growth and experiential learning throughout the whole Master of Sustainability and Systems Change -degree program, providing a structure for deep level (transformative) learning.

Completion alternatives

The material and literature will be handed in the beginning of the course.

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

-Approved/Rejected

Rejected: The student did not submit the course assignments or these assignments did not meet the minimal quality requirements presented in the class.

Further information

The course is taking place during the full academic year 2024-2025

Evaluation scale

Approved/Rejected

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

Successful completion of the course requires that all tasks set for the course have been completed successfully. The tasks and their evaluation criteria are presented in more detail at the beginning of the study period.

Assessment methods and criteria

-Approved/Rejected

Rejected: The student did not submit the course assignments or these assignments did not meet the minimal quality requirements presented in the class.

Further information

Note! This course focuses on students’ personal development and experiential learning throughout the whole MaSS program, providing a structure for deep level learning. Competencies are built through each student’s individual practices and with the support of a peer group (team work).