Futures Course Assignments - Spring 2002 |
-- a university of arizona
course on methods and approaches for studying the future
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The first entry is the current week's assignment (posted on Friday before the week's assignment applies). Previous assignments are below that in reverse chronological order. Many assignments may have links to other locations here or to other sites. Since this is an independent study and open to all readers, only the broad assignments will be indicated and no specific student names will be used. The 'course modules' is a summary of the entire course. Portions of that summary will be copied into these assignments on a weekly basis so you can have bite sized chunks of material, Dates for Individual moderating sessions on caucus are posted, and guidelines for moderator are available.
Session 15 |
Last week - scroll down and review anything of interest Don't forget the social hour on Tuesday at 5:00 Complete the evaluation (sent via email), post your revised 2025 image, and post your careers paper (all on caucus). I will leave this material up for a year for reference |
Session 14 |
Finish revision
of image for 2025 and post paper on career futures |
Session 13 |
Continue reviewing
course materials, and continue papers and caucus discussions |
Session 12 |
Complete image
for 2025 and work on career paper - take short course and prepare a talk
about the future for others. Take
the "Shortcourse" - A review of futures studies - a quick
view of the class materials Begin
reviewing the rewritten images for 2025. All topics should be posted
by now and the two names below a topic are the ones that review that topic.
Instructions are on this page. Get there by this link or from class caucus
page. Complete your reviews by April 15. Following the reviews, the original
author will rewrite the image based on peer feedback and re-post it by
April 22. |
Session 11 |
Continue reviewing
course materials, and continue papers and caucus discussions |
Session 10 |
Review more course
materials, begin papers and continue caucus discussion |
Session 9 |
Review course
materials, begin papers and continue caucus discussion Begin
paper on future of your career (instructions) - Due 4/29 |
Session |
Spring break -
no class |
Session 8 |
Visions and Values,
Libraries and Careers Begin (postponed from
last week) -- Caucus discussion with guest - Dr. Bill Neumann |
Session 7 |
Critical Thinking,
Ignorance, and Strategic Approaches
Begin -- Caucus discussion
with guest - Dr. Bill Neumann Other items |
Session 6 |
Exploring the
Pieces and Building Your Own Futures Study |
Session 5 |
Exploring Other's
Perspectives and the Literature
Other items |
Session 4 |
Exploring Other's
Perspectives and the Literature Other items |
Session 3 |
Links to Review Other assignments Make entries into
Caucus for: |
Session 2 |
Catch up from
last time due to the first of semester confusion Learning caucus (see
caucus help) |
Session 1 |
Introduction and
overview |