Institute of Food and Resource Economics
66 % Department of Agricultural Sciences 34 % | |||||||||||||
Earliest Possible Year | MSc. 1 year | ||||||||||||
Duration | Half a block | ||||||||||||
Credits | 7.5 (ECTS) | ||||||||||||
Course Level | MSc | ||||||||||||
Examination | Final Examination written examination and oral examination Portfolio Examination All aids allowed Description of Examination: Evaluation of reflection document Presentation of outcome of the project to the client Oral presentation of the outcome of project to facilitators and students in class Weight: Evaluation of reflection document (80%) Presentation of outcome of the project to the client 10%) Oral presentation of the outcome of project to facilitators and students in class (10%) pass/fail, external examiner | ||||||||||||
Organisation of Teaching | Project work Meeting with the client outside KVL Facilitation Presentations | ||||||||||||
Block Placement | Block 4a Week Structure: Outside schedule | ||||||||||||
Teaching Language | English | ||||||||||||
Optional Prerequisites | Systems Thinking, Managing Complexity and | ||||||||||||
Mandatory Prerequisites | Communication Part 1 - Systems Description and analysis | ||||||||||||
Areas of Competence the Course Will Address | |||||||||||||
Basic Science: Understand key concepts in communication and learning theories. Know the systemic principles associated with handling complex socio-technical situations and facilitating learning Applied science: Able to learn how to learn and to expand competencies to communicate effectively with clients. Able to negotiate and debate proposed improvements to problem situations with the client, and negotiate with the client a development project to improve the enterprise around identified themes, issues or opportunities. Work with proposed improvements. Apply theories and methodologies to the whole project in a reflective way. Use techniques, models and data gathering tools for collecting and analysing primary and secondary research data to improve the situation and solve problems. Ethics & Values: Aware of ethical aspects of communicating in a client-consultant relationship, and apply this in practice when negotiating and implementa | |||||||||||||
Course Objectives | |||||||||||||
The course aims to promote interdisciplinary thinking within the context of real world situations, owned by potential clients in their natural setting, and it will provide students an opportunity to bring together knowledge gained from a number of disciplines (e.g. agronomy, economics, animal production, food science etc) and help create integrated knowledge and promote the students ability to manage complexity. | |||||||||||||
Course Contents | |||||||||||||
Integrating knowledge from the disciplines - drawing from disciplinary knowledge appropriate in the context of a problematic situation of real client(s) towards Managing complexity - learning to deal with complex problems and working out changes considered desirable and feasible by the client(s) and using a framework of Systems science and its methods and tools - Drawing from systems science in theory and practice and using appropriate methods and tools. Communication and consulting - Develop capacity to advise on a foundation of extension science and facilitate learning of the client(s). | |||||||||||||
Teaching And Learning Methods | |||||||||||||
The concluding reports from Part 1 consisting of the multi-perspective analysis, issue identification and suggestions for improvements form the basis of this second part of the course with focus on implementation and client feed back. Negotiations with the client and identification of a specific area of research of particular interest to your client will be agreed. The project is focused on situation improvement or development project on how to best change and manage the enterprise system around the selected research area. This will involve proposing and carefully researching and analysing improvements to the overall enterprise system. At this stage it is required that students compare and contrast suggested improvements and their management with existing system if no changes are made. The analysis of these comparisons has to be very thorough in order to be taken seriously by the client. Assisting the client with implementing some or all of the agreed changes and evaluating the outcomes will conclude the student's involvement in the process. The course concludes with presentations of the project, obtaining feedback and reflecting on the whole experience. First, students will be presenting the results of the analysis, improvements and outcomes to the client and key stakeholders such as family members, employees and consultants. Students will also obtain feed back from the client(s) and include all of these in a situation improvement document. Second, a presentation is made to the peers in the class followed by a discussion on relevant issues. Finally, a separate document is submitted as the outcome of reflection on the entire course experience. The two presentations and the two documents will make up the assessment of this part of the course. | |||||||||||||
Course Litterature | |||||||||||||
Study material to be presented at the start of the course. | |||||||||||||
Course Coordinator | |||||||||||||
Nadarajah Sriskandarajah, sri@kvl.dk, Institute of Food and Resource Economics/Consumption, Health and Ethics Division, Phone: 35283432 Vibeke Langer, vl@life.ku.dk, Department of Agricultural Sciences/Environment, Resources and Technology, Phone: 35332383 Vagn Olsen, vo@life.ku.dk, Institute of Food and Resource Economics/Consumption, Health and Ethics Division, Phone: 35332167 | |||||||||||||
Study Board | |||||||||||||
Study Committee NSN | |||||||||||||
Course Scope | |||||||||||||
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