Course Objectives

-- a university of arizona course on methods and approaches for studying the future

These are reproduced from the full syllabus  -- so you can remind yourself just what the course is all about by a quick review page.

The objective of this course is to develop abilities to understand the issues and to critically interpret the diverse viewpoints regarding possible futures for the United States and world, by:

• Developing an understanding of futures techniques and approaches, including their limitations and applications.
  


• Exploring a range of perspectives and styles of how various people and organizations approach futures studies and to become acquainted with the futures literature.
  


• Gaining experiences with techniques and technologies that should be useful in your own future.
  


• Providing opportunities to work as individuals and as teams.