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  • Course brochure (2021)

    KEY DETAILS

    • Teacher in charge: Ville Eloranta
    • Language of Instruction: English
    • Learning platform: MyCourses & Zoom (and various virtual teamwork tools)
    • Teaching Period: Period I
    • Location: Hybrid
    • To ensure your place in the course, you must be present (physically or virtually) in the first session


    1. COURSE OVERVIEW 

    IDBM Challenge is the introductory course for the IDBM programme. The course brings together students from diverse educational backgrounds. Through theoretical explorations and practical experiences, the students acquire the skills to conceptualize, develop, and introduce ethically and commercially sustainable approaches to complex societal challenges. The course involves rigorous reflections from individual, team, and collective perspectives.


    2. PREREQUISITES

    Bachelor Degree. The student must be an IDBM Major, IDBM Minor, or IDBM Fitech student. 


    3. LEARNING OUTCOMES

    After the course, the participants should be able to:

    1. identify and analyze the dynamics between the individual, the team, and the community, in the context of creative transdisciplinary problem solving
    2. identify and analyze the reasoning and practice of design-driven ways to solving ill-defined problems
    3. as a team, collectively apply the problem-solving methods to a real-life societal challenges
    4. as a team, collectively create a solution to the challenge
    5. individually and collectively reflect the design outcomes and the learning progress

    Learnings will be based on

    • Pre-assignment (2 tasks), click "assignments" in the menu
    • Articles, book chapters and videos (listed in "week" pages)
    • Workshops (min. 75% mandatory attendance due to the teamwork-related learning objectives). Presence in the final event is also mandatory.
    • Large project work in transdisciplinary teams (instructions given in the first session of the course)
    • Smaller individual and team assignments (instructions given in the first session)


    4. SCHEDULE

    Described in this Mycourses site.


    5. ASSESSMENT METHODS AND CRITERIA

    • Individual reflections
    • Event preparation and presentation
    • Team reflection
    • Participation

    Exact details presented in the first session (and published here).

    Note

    • At least 75% attendance needed
    • Event participation needed


    6. WORKLOAD

    Total 135h (5 ECTS)


    7. READINGS

    Described under "week" pages.

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