WAT-E1100 - Water and Environmental Engineering, 01.09.2020-21.10.2020
Kurssiasetusten perusteella kurssi on päättynyt 21.10.2020 Etsi kursseja: WAT-E1100
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The last week of WAT Course takes a broader view on the course's' content, synthesising the six thematic weeks and reflecting what you have learned. The week also includes a structured way to give and receive feedback with your group.
The Synthesis Week includes contact sessions on Monday morning, Tuesday full day and Wednesday morning: all sessions start at 09.00 online. Monday afternoon is reserved for personal synthesis task, while Thursday and Friday are free from Contact Sessions (to be used to draft your portfolio, to meet your mentor, to finalise your assignments and to take a small break before Period II).
The week consists of the following submitted tasks:
- Personal Synthesis Task: Main Learning Points (DL draft by Tue 20.10. at 9:00, final DL Fri 23.10. at 23:00)
- Group Synthesis Task: Presentation (DL Tue 20.10. at 18:00)
General schedule for the week is shown in the figure below, while the detailed schedule can be found below the figure.
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Personal synthesis Task Tehtävä
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Use this Discussion forum to submit your Group's Presentation (powerpoint or similar) done and presented during Tuesday's session. Deadline for submission is Tue 20.10 at 6pm.
Do the submissions by adding a new Discussion Topic, with title 'Group X: WAT presentation (where X is your group's number). Attach the documents as a file to your post. Your posts will be visible to everyone visiting these pages.
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Personal compensatory task (if you missed the group work and/or sessions) Keskustelualue
In case you missed part or all of the sessions during the Synthesis Week, please go carefully through all the material and slides from the Contact Sessions available in this sub-page. After, you must do a personal compensatory task that includes following three tasks:
1) Personal Synthesis Task: do and submit your Personal Learning Points as advised above, using also the Presentations from Tuesday's Synthesis Day (uploaded by the Groups to MyCourses).
2) Group Synthesis Task: prepare a short slide set for the week that corresponds your Group's number, as advised in Tuesday's slides. The slide set should thus include three parts from your week and its theme, methods and possible context: objective, subjective and feedback.
3) What is WAT? Task: write your short definition for water and environmental engineering.
Upload all documents to this Discussion Forum by adding a new Discussion Topic. The title of the topic should be 'N.N.: compensatory task', where N.N. is your full name. Attach the required documents as a file and/or text to your post.
Deadline for the task Friday 30.10.2020
In addition, you must fill in the WAT Course Feedback Form and Self and Peer Evaluation form as required (both sent to your email through Webropol).
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Non-WAT students: personal Synthesis & Reflection task (compensatory task for portfolio) Keskustelualue
WAT-E1100 course has in total 15 credits. Part of those credits are reserved for Personal Development Portfolio process that is mandatory for all WAT degree students (and strongly recommended for Nordic5Tech students).
If you are not WAT degree student, you must thus compensate this with a personal Synthesis & Reflection Task that is similar to portfolio, but focuses just on the WAT Course (instead of entire WAT Master's Programme). If you are an exchange student, you can also do the WAT Portfolio instead of this compensatory task: in that case, agree on this by emailing Meeri.
Your personal Synthesis & Reflection Task consists of one report that must include following two elements: 1) a written summary of all six WAT Course weeks (2 pages), and 2) a personal reflection on how WAT Course themes and methods link to your studies and career plans (2 pages). You are also encouraged to reflect shortly how the WAT Course concept differs from studies in your own study programme.
The report can also include visualisations related to your learning process and reflection. You can naturally build your report on the Personal Synthesis Task we did during the WAT Course's Synthesis Week.
Submit your report by FRIDAY 13.11 to this Discussion Forum by adding a new discussion forum with heading "Synthesis & Reflection Task: N.N.": add your report as an attachment to your post (preferably as .pdf).
Note that your submission is visible to all students attending the WAT Course.
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Literature: governance & science
Got interested in governance & legislation? Or in science and different discplinarities and forms of knowledge production? Great! These themes do have a very important role in water and environmental engineering field - and understanding them is therefore critical both for your studies and your career.
You can study the topic more in our advanced courses such as WAT-E2080 Water & Governance. We also encourage you to take law-, governance and science-related courses at e.g. Aalto University, University of Helsinki and University of Eastern Finland as part of your elective studies. In addition, please do read the hand-picked selection of some key literature below to learn more!
Selected literature: governance
- Franks & Cleaver (2007): Water governance and poverty: a framework for analysis
- Biermann et al. (2010): Earth system governance: a research framework
- Biermann (2012): Planetary boundaries and earth system governance: Exploring the links
- Reed (2008): Stakeholder participation for environmental management: A literature review
- Reed et al. (2009): Who's in and why? A typology of stakeholder analysis methods for natural resource management
- Keskinen (2010). Bringing back the common sense?
- Sojamo (2016). Water-using corporations as agents of water security, management and governance.
- Haapala (2018). Governing water for local development
Selected literature: science and knowledge production
- Gibbons (1999). Science's new social contract with society
- Nowotny et al. (2003): ‘Mode 2’ Revisited: The New Production of Knowledge
- Pohl (2005): Transdisciplinary collaboration in environmental research
- Pohl (2008): From science to policy through transdisciplinary research
- Keskinen (2010): Bringing back the common sense?
- Stepanova et al. (2019): ...An interdisciplinary typology of knowledge types and their integration in practice
- Norström et al (2020): Principles for knowledge co-production in sustainability research
- Franks & Cleaver (2007): Water governance and poverty: a framework for analysis