Tour
1: Course Introduction |
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-- a university of arizona
course on methods and approaches for studying the future
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This page gives some links
you should look over on how to work with the class, some comments abut the class
organization and dealing with hypertext thinking, and a tour of specific web
pages. You should be able to get to everything the web home page (http://ag.arizona.edu/futures),
so learn that page well.
- Important pages (links)
to be aware of during the course (all these are off home page but this tour
will move you along for the most important links).
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- The best way to use this
tour is to quickly go to the link, scroll up and down to get a feel for what
is there, and then use "back" on the browser to come back to this
page.
- Course
Introduction (brief overview of the course)
- Student
Guide (an overview of what where you should be on a monthly basis)
- Course
Modules (an "outline" with topics and links for full course
- Assignments
(detailed specific assignments made weekly - includes all previous too)
- Course
objectives (these are short, but look at them now and then)
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- Focusing on the 6 key
topics on the home page
- Tutorials,
Tours and Seminars
- Expeditions
and Exploring
- Paradigms,
Driving Forces and Trends
- Scenarios,
Foresight and Change
- Futures
Related Sites and Resources
- Futures
Literature
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- Other key items on the
home page
- The
Big Picture (view from on high about a futures study)
- Futures
Overview (a quick look at futures studies)
- Futures
Short Course (a way to learn about futures in a short time)
- Searching
(this course web plus Internet in general)
- Instructor's
viewponts (a collection of ideas and approaches)
- Course
Summary (summarizing everything in a few pages))
- Course
Review (ideas on how to review the course content)
- Course
Study Questions (questions to guide your understanding)
- How this course may be
different than normal.
- It is a combination of
classroom, Internet, team exercises (in and out of class), and expectations
you will go far beyond the "formal" material covered by class. This
process is greatly facilitated by the use of Internet.
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- What should I watch out
for?
- The most common "problem"
is students not keeping up on caucus and doing the assignments on time. I
will sent an email message to everyone each Friday reminding them of what
is due from the previous week, and will post the next week's specific assignments
on the "assignments" web page (recall these are within the context
of the general guidance in the syllabus.
Your responses will be due the following Monday.
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- You can give me feedback
or ask a question via a web form at this point.
Return to "Anticipating
the Future" course home page
Prepared by Roger L. Caldwell