21E10000 - How to change the world: Innovating toward sustainability, 07.01.2019-14.02.2019
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Learning diary
The first part of the learning diary will give you a chance to explore one of the biggest questions of life: “What makes me happy?” Human well-being, happiness and their constituents are one of the underlying themes of the course. We will explore these topics – and their sustainable foundations – from different angles, one of which is a diary in which we would like you reflect on a daily basis, what makes you happy. So, everyday write down what has made you happy on that particular day, and reflect upon what this tells you about the basis and pursuit of happiness. We urge you to, indeed, do this every day and as immediately as possible when you experience the moment you wish to record. This will help you in reflecting upon those moments and your experience in a genuine manner.
The second part of the learning diary encourages you to do one sustainability deed a day. The idea here is to change one small thing in a day, however small it is. You do not need to choose a new issue for each day (although you can opt for that also), but you are free to explore as many topics and deeds as you desire during the time period. You can also concentrate on one single thing or issue, if you wish. The concrete deed can be e.g. opting for a more sustainable option in your consumption, promoting a positive venture, convincing someone to make a sustainable choice in their life, refraining from buying or doing an environmentally harmful act, engaging in a socially sustainable act, picking up a piece of trash… With this exercise we challenge you to explore how it feels to make changes in your own daily routine. What is necessary to make the change happen and what is needed to make it stick? This exercise is a very concrete part of the learning diary with the help of which we explore the influence of and learnings from small deeds.
Learning diary should be completed by March 3rd 2019. It needs to be submitted in edited and understandable format. Length is 5-10 pages (11pt Arial, line spacing 1, standard margins, A4 size). Learning diary represents 20% of the course grade, but it is most valuable as a learning tool. Be creative!