Topic outline

  • Week 7: Synthesis

    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. 

    Please reserve the week from Monday afternoon until Wednesday lunch time for Contact Sessions and other activities.

    Monday morning is reserved for finalising your possible assignments from previous week, while the rest of the week from Wednesday afternoon onwards is then reserved for drafting your portfolio, meeting your mentor as well as finalising your possible remaining assignments. 

    Week 7 schedule


     

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      Schedule for the week


      Monday 17.10: INTRO & CONTEXT DAY

      13:00- Introduction session for Synthesis Week: INTRODUCTORY SLIDES 

      13.30- Context sessions on Governance and Science: SESSIONS' SLIDES 

      Monday evening: starting the work on your Personal Synthesis Task 


      Tuesday 18.10: SYNTHESIS DAY: SLIDES

      9:00- Finalising your Personal Synthesis Task

      10.00-14.00 Group work on your Synthesis Task (& lunch)

      14:00- Group presentations for WAT weeks 

      15.30- Synthesising discussion in small groups


      Wednesday 19.10: FEEDBACK & WAY FORWARD DAY: SLIDES

      9:00 - 10:00 Introduction + finalising your personal feedback
      10:00 - 11:30 Group feedback with modified version Satu Rekonen's 'I like, I wish' method 
      11:30 - 12:30 Wrap-up & way forward 

      Link to Lifewide WAT survey: https://link.webropolsurveys.com/S/082BD66BF5B4D8CF 

      Lunch together at 12.30!


      Thursday 20.10. & Friday 21.10.

      Time to finalise your possible remaining course assignments plus a possibility for mentor meetings as well as time to prepare your Personal Study Plan and work on your Personal Learning Portfolio. Hopefully also some time to relax and recover before Period II! 


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      Synthesis task: Personal Learning Points Assignment

      Go through WAT Course weekly themes, methods and contexts. 

      Write down your Personal Learning Points for each week and your reflection on the connection between different WAT study paths to the template provided here.

      Deadlines 
      1) First version by Tuesday at 10 am, but no need to submit to MyCourses (forms basis for your group work)
      2) Final version: submission here by Fri 21st October. 

      The task will not be graded, but is intended to be useful for yourself to reflect your learning as well as to think about your advanced studies and to prepare your Personal Learning Portfolio.



    • Group Synthesis Task Forum

      Use this Discussion forum to submit your Group's Presentation presented during Tuesday's session (and possibly updated after that). Use the powerpoint template available below for your presentation.

      Deadline for submission is Tue 18.10.

      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.


    • Group presentation: powerpoint template File PPTX

      Use the attached powerpoint template as a basis for your group's synthesis presentation. You can present also in other way (e.g. through Prezi, Miro etc.), but make sure you include the same themes into your presentation.  

    • Group feedback: template for 'I like, I wish' File PPTX

      This powerpoint provides you a template where you can write your personal feedback to both your group as a whole and your group members individually. You will fill this on Wednesday morning and then use it as a basis to give feedback to your group members.  

      The template is based on Satu Rekonen's "I like, I wish" team feedback methods: https://ilikeiwish.org 


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      Personal compensatory task if you missed MONDAY Forum
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      Personal compensatory task if you missed TUESDAY Forum
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      Personal compensatory task if you missed WEDNESDAY Forum
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      Non-WAT students: personal Synthesis & Reflection task (compensatory task for portfolio) Forum

      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

      The Synthesis Week also includes a short lecture related to governance and science. Both are naturally really broad topics, and have a very important role in water and environmental engineering field: understanding them is therefore critical both for your studies and your career.  

      Given the lecture provides thus just a general introduction to those themes, we encourage you to read the hand-picked selection of the key literature on these themes to learn more! 

      Do also note that you can study these topics more in our advanced courses, such as WAT-E2080 Water & Governance course. 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. 


      Selected literature: governance & management


      Selected literature: science and knowledge production


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