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LEARNING OUTCOMES

Students who successfully complete this course should be able to:

• Explain the basic constructs of critical and transformative futures;
• Explore and critically evaluate various images of sustainable futures, including their own;
• Propose and defend alternative images of sustainable futures based on research and creative imagination.

Credits: 6

Schedule: 23.10.2024 - 28.11.2024

Teacher in charge (valid for whole curriculum period):

Teacher in charge (applies in this implementation): İdil Gaziulusoy

Contact information for the course (applies in this implementation):

CEFR level (valid for whole curriculum period):

Language of instruction and studies (applies in this implementation):

Teaching language: English. Languages of study attainment: English

CONTENT, ASSESSMENT AND WORKLOAD

Content

• valid for whole curriculum period:

  The course introduces theories, tools and methods of critical and transformative futures with references to long-term, systemic change for sustainability. The conceptual constructs of the course are based on poststructural, decolonized, feminist and post-normal schools of futures studies. Through these conceptual tools, the students analyse images of futures produced by diverse actors in socio-ecological-technical systems critically, challenge their underlying assumptions and propose alternatives.

Workload

• valid for whole curriculum period:

  Activities and teaching methods in support of learning: reading, group work, writing reflective essay and various class activities.

  Overall workload 6 ECTS = 162 hours:

  • Guided studying, contact teaching: 36 h
  • Independent studying, including teamwork: 100h
  • Time to think: 25h
  • Giving course feedback: 1h

DETAILS

Study Material

• valid for whole curriculum period:

  Students will be provided with reading materials through MyCourses. 

Substitutes for Courses

• valid for whole curriculum period:

  Substitutes for Courses

Prerequisites

• valid for whole curriculum period:

  Prerequisites

SDG: Sustainable Development Goals

11 Sustainable Cities and Communities

13 Climate Action

15 Life on Land

FURTHER INFORMATION

Further Information

• valid for whole curriculum period:

  Teaching Language: English

  Teaching Period: 2024-2025 Autumn II
  2025-2026 Autumn II

  Registration:

  Registration for courses Sisu. Minimum number of students 15, maximum 30.

  This course is compulsory for CS Design 2-year students.

  The order of priority for admitting students:

  1.Creative Sustainability major students (ARTS);
  2.Creative Sustainability minor students (ARTS);
  3.Creative Sustainability major students (BIZ; CHEM);
  4.Creative Sustainability minor students (other than ARTS);
  5.Department of Design masters students.
  6.Students for whom the course is part of his/her major's or programme's alternative studies and has been scheduled in the student's PSP (HOPS) for the current academic year;
  7.All other master students.

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