Study Guide

Objective

After completing the course, the student is able to:
recognize the needs of the client, can support his / her human agency and participation in differ-ent kind of residential and everyday environments and is able to guide the client according to his / her needs.

Content

· Participation as a resource in client work
· A holistic model of human agency and client
· Residential and everyday environments as facilitators
· Citizenship, municipality and opportunities to influence

Evaluation scale

H-5

Objective

After completing the course, the student is able to:

- analyse changes in the operating environments and anticipate future developments applying the concepts and methods of futures studies
- evaluate impacts of the changing operating environments on their work, work community and organization, as well on the industry/field at large
- develop one’s competences and expertise in a focused and goal-oriented way in anticipation of the future competence requirements in the work life
- improve and innovate operations and work processes in their work community, taking into account environmental, social and economic sustainability, and using multidisciplinary and multiprofessional futures knowledge.

Content

- Future of work and income
- Future competence needs
- Changing career paths and professional identities
- Future technologies, human–technology interaction
- Sustainable future and ecological reconstruction
- Theories and methods of future studies and foresight
- Importance of foresight for innovations and strategic planning and decision-making

Materials

In the itslearning course platform.

Teaching methods

Studying instructed learning materials, individual written assignments, group work in multidisciplinary groups, reading and discussing in reading groups in your own study programme.

Student workload

Contact days and lectures: 15 h
Online and virtual working individually and in groups: 120 h

Group work and assignments:
• Starting day 28.8.2023: multidisciplinary groups working with SITRA’s megatrend cards.
• Reading groups within each study programme: reading and discussing research articles/papers/reports, creating a visual presentation of the key ideas and publishing it in a discussion forum in the itslearning course platform (tutor teacher evaluates, pass/fail).
• Hackathon 27.11.2023 (a pre-meeting of the hackathon 15.11.2023): multidisciplinary groups work to solve real working-life problems.

Individual work and assignments:
• Orientation assignment: Futures consciousness and attitudes towards future (in the itslearning course platform; tutor teacher evaluates, pass/fail).
• Scenario assignment: imagining alternative professional futures (in the itslearning course platform; tutor teacher evaluates, pass/fail).
• Reflective report on utilizing futures thinking and anticipation methods in one’s own work (in the itslearning course platform; tutor teacher evaluates, pass/fail).

Content scheduling

The course is compulsory for all Turku UAS Master Students. It will be implemented partly in groups comprised of students across the various study programmes, and partly as team and individual work within each study programme.

There are three contact days (Zoom-meetings: 28.8.2023, 15.11.2023 and 27.11.2023).) common to all students of the various study programmes, and further, there are common study materials and assignments in the itslearning course platform. In addition, the study programmes may add and cover discipline specific topics. This will be guided by the tutor teacher during the programme’s contact days.

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THEME 1: CHANGING WORLD AND WORKING LIFE (calendar weeks 35-37)
• Common starting day 28.8. for all students of the various study programmes: orientation to the course, a keynote talk on the future working life and competence requirements, and group work with SITRA’s megatrend cards (tutor teachers will guide working of the groups).
• Students familiarize themselves independently with the materials in the itslearning course platform.
• Orientation assignment: Futures consciousness and attitudes towards future (DL 17.9.)
• (Each study programme may arrange lectures by TUAS specialists on themes such as new technologies, circular economy etc. during the programme’s contact days.)

***

THEME 2: FUTURES STUDIES AND ANTICIPATION (calendar weeks 38-41)
• Students familiarize themselves independently with the materials in the itslearning course platform.
• Scenario assignment: imagining alternative professional futures (DL 15.10.)

***

THEME 3: CHANGING WORKING LIFE IN MY FIELD (calendar weeks 42-45)
• Reading groups: reading and discussing research articles in groups that meet virtually or face to face, and creating a visual presentation based on the key ideas of the discussion. Readings are related to the changing work, working environment and competence requirements in the field of the study programme. The visual presentation will be shared in the itslearning course platform (DL 12.11.).

• Tutor teacher organizes the reading groups and compiles the list of readings (or guides students to find relevant research articles and reports).

***

THEME 4: SHAPING MY OWN FUTURE (calendar weeks (viikot 46-49)
• Students familiarize themselves independently with the materials in the itslearning course platform.
• Common Hackathon day 27.11. (a pre-meeting of the hackathon 16.11.) for all students of the various study programmes: group working to solve real working-life problems related to sustainable future. Students will familiarize themselves with the Hackathon instructions and assignments before the Hackathon day in the itslearning platform and submit their team reports there after the Hackathon (DL 3.12.).

There are two possible ways to participate in the hackathon: 1) as a commissioner or 2) as a student solving working life problems in a multidisciplinary small group.

• Final assignment: a reflective report on utilizing futures thinking and anticipation methods in one’s own work (DL 10.12.).

Evaluation scale

Hyväksytty/Hylätty

Assessment methods and criteria

Assessment will be based on the individual and group assignments submitted in the itslearning course platform and on the demonstrated contribution to the group work in contact days.

Tutor teacher evaluates the assignments (assignments 1–4). To pass the course, students are expected to participate in the contact days and to contribute to group work in them, as well as to complete and turn in all the assignments. Missing contact day participation will be compensated by an extra assignment. Tutor teachers will keep records of participation in group work in contact days and evaluate the compensatory assignments.

Qualifications

-

Objective

After completing the course, the student is able to:
· specify the knowledge base of the development project
· produce a written description of the progress of the development project so far
· evaluate the progress of the development project in relation to the plan (eg staying on schedule, progressing towards the goal, functionality of selected research and development methods, operation of the project organization)

Content

· A description of the progress of the development project so far, based on the structure (contents) of the final report (project progress assessment as part of the description)
· Presentation of the progress of the development project so far to the client/sponsor or in other agreed manner

Evaluation scale

Hyväksytty/Hylätty

Objective

After completing the course, the student is able to:
· describe the premises, requirements and prerequisites of the organisation where the development project is carried out
· implement data retrieval systematically in Finnish and international databases
· write a theoretical framework for development project · state aim(s), purpose(s), research tasks and final outcome of the development project
· define development and evaluations methodology and describe research methods used in project implementation
· write realisable proposal for development project and research proposal when required
· describe one’s own role as an expert and project manager in development project
· discuss issues related to ethics and reliability
· evaluate and anticipate risks of development project

Content

· Idea/brainstorming seminar
· Literature review
· Proposal for development project (research proposal enclosed if needed)
· Master thesis agreement
· Proposal seminar
· Data retrieval webcourse (1cr)
· Peer feedback

Evaluation scale

Hyväksytty/Hylätty

Objective

After completing the course, the student is able to:
recognize the needs of the client, can support his / her human agency and participation in differ-ent kind of residential and everyday environments and is able to guide the client according to his / her needs.

Content

· Participation as a resource in client work
· A holistic model of human agency and client
· Residential and everyday environments as facilitators
· Citizenship, municipality and opportunities to influence

Evaluation scale

H-5

Objective

After completing the course, the student is able to:
knows the main contents of social counselling and service counselling and is able to independently apply his / her own counselling orientations and perspectives in professional work.

Content

Orientations of counselling skills
Professional content in social counselling and service n
Customer process analysis
Multi-professional collaboration
Service design and customer knowledge

Evaluation scale

H-5

Objective

After completing the course, the student is able to:
is able to independently apply different work methods in practical client work and is able to critically evaluate them according to the principles of special social guidance

Content

Intensive special social guidance
Advanced working orientations and special features of guidance with different client groups
Evaluating and developing his / her own approach in professional work

Evaluation scale

H-5

Objective

After completing the course, the student is able to:
knows the sources of social law and is able to identify and solve legal issues of social and health ser-vices in accordance with legal norms

Content

Basic concepts of social law and its core content
Social and administrative laws
Customer’s and employee’s legal protection in social and health services
Applying legislation to customer cases

Evaluation scale

H-5

Objective

After completing the course, the student is able to:
know the knowledge base of advanced social counselling, is able to apply it independently in practical client work and is able to critically evaluate its role as part of client and cooperative work

Content

Qualifications and competencies of advanced social counselling
Customer-specific legislation and social and health care reforms in 2021–2030
Customer-specific services, special services, benefits and support systems
Decision making systems, processes and responsibilities
Marginalization and advanced social counselling
Work efficiency and cost awareness
Professional ethics of advanced social counselling

Evaluation scale

H-5

Objective

After completing the course, the student will be able to understand key welfare services,recognize changes and prioritize services effectively and apply them proficiently in professional work with various customer groups.

Content

Health and social services 2021–2030
Regional service production models
Future service concepts by customer group
Decision-making systems and service processes
Digital services and information management
Near-futures scenarios - SOTE 2023 – 2032
Policy programs and recommendations
Regional and municipal integrated service concepts/production
Key legislation governing professional work and services
Customer service processes, their interfaces and decision-making systems
Future service concepts by customer group
Decision-making systems and service processes
Digital services

Evaluation scale

H-5

Objective

After completing the course, the student is able to:
· specify the knowledge base of the development project
· produce a written description of the progress of the development project so far
· evaluate the progress of the development project in relation to the plan (eg staying on schedule, progressing towards the goal, functionality of selected research and development methods, operation of the project organization)

Content

· A description of the progress of the development project so far, based on the structure (contents) of the final report (project progress assessment as part of the description)
· Presentation of the progress of the development project so far to the client/sponsor or in other agreed manner

Evaluation scale

Hyväksytty/Hylätty

Objective

After completing the course, the student is able to:
recognize the needs of the client, can support his / her human agency and participation in differ-ent kind of residential and everyday environments and is able to guide the client according to his / her needs.

Content

· Participation as a resource in client work
· A holistic model of human agency and client
· Residential and everyday environments as facilitators
· Citizenship, municipality and opportunities to influence

Evaluation scale

H-5

Objective

After completing the course, the student will be able to understand key welfare services,recognize changes and prioritize services effectively and apply them proficiently in professional work with various customer groups.

Content

Health and social services 2021–2030
Regional service production models
Future service concepts by customer group
Decision-making systems and service processes
Digital services and information management
Near-futures scenarios - SOTE 2023 – 2032
Policy programs and recommendations
Regional and municipal integrated service concepts/production
Key legislation governing professional work and services
Customer service processes, their interfaces and decision-making systems
Future service concepts by customer group
Decision-making systems and service processes
Digital services

Evaluation scale

H-5

Objective

After completing the course, the student is able to:
knows the sources of social law and is able to identify and solve legal issues of social and health ser-vices in accordance with legal norms

Content

Basic concepts of social law and its core content
Social and administrative laws
Customer’s and employee’s legal protection in social and health services
Applying legislation to customer cases

Evaluation scale

H-5

Objective

After completing the course, the student is able to:
knows the main contents of social counselling and service counselling and is able to independently apply his / her own counselling orientations and perspectives in professional work.

Content

Orientations of counselling skills
Professional content in social counselling and service n
Customer process analysis
Multi-professional collaboration
Service design and customer knowledge

Evaluation scale

H-5

Objective

After completing the course, the student is able to:
· describe the premises, requirements and prerequisites of the organisation where the development project is carried out
· implement data retrieval systematically in Finnish and international databases
· write a theoretical framework for development project · state aim(s), purpose(s), research tasks and final outcome of the development project
· define development and evaluations methodology and describe research methods used in project implementation
· write realisable proposal for development project and research proposal when required
· describe one’s own role as an expert and project manager in development project
· discuss issues related to ethics and reliability
· evaluate and anticipate risks of development project

Content

· Idea/brainstorming seminar
· Literature review
· Proposal for development project (research proposal enclosed if needed)
· Master thesis agreement
· Proposal seminar
· Data retrieval webcourse (1cr)
· Peer feedback

Evaluation scale

Hyväksytty/Hylätty

Objective

After completing the course, the student is able to:

- analyse changes in the operating environments and anticipate future developments applying the concepts and methods of futures studies
- evaluate impacts of the changing operating environments on their work, work community and organization, as well on the industry/field at large
- develop one’s competences and expertise in a focused and goal-oriented way in anticipation of the future competence requirements in the work life
- improve and innovate operations and work processes in their work community, taking into account environmental, social and economic sustainability, and using multidisciplinary and multiprofessional futures knowledge.

Content

- Future of work and income
- Future competence needs
- Changing career paths and professional identities
- Future technologies, human–technology interaction
- Sustainable future and ecological reconstruction
- Theories and methods of future studies and foresight
- Importance of foresight for innovations and strategic planning and decision-making

Materials

In the itslearning course platform.

Teaching methods

Studying instructed learning materials, individual written assignments, group work in multidisciplinary groups, reading and discussing in reading groups in your own study programme.

Student workload

Contact days and lectures: 15 h
Online and virtual working individually and in groups: 120 h

Group work and assignments:
• Starting day 28.8.2023: multidisciplinary groups working with SITRA’s megatrend cards.
• Reading groups within each study programme: reading and discussing research articles/papers/reports, creating a visual presentation of the key ideas and publishing it in a discussion forum in the itslearning course platform (tutor teacher evaluates, pass/fail).
• Hackathon 27.11.2023 (a pre-meeting of the hackathon 15.11.2023): multidisciplinary groups work to solve real working-life problems.

Individual work and assignments:
• Orientation assignment: Futures consciousness and attitudes towards future (in the itslearning course platform; tutor teacher evaluates, pass/fail).
• Scenario assignment: imagining alternative professional futures (in the itslearning course platform; tutor teacher evaluates, pass/fail).
• Reflective report on utilizing futures thinking and anticipation methods in one’s own work (in the itslearning course platform; tutor teacher evaluates, pass/fail).

Content scheduling

The course is compulsory for all Turku UAS Master Students. It will be implemented partly in groups comprised of students across the various study programmes, and partly as team and individual work within each study programme.

There are three contact days (Zoom-meetings: 28.8.2023, 15.11.2023 and 27.11.2023).) common to all students of the various study programmes, and further, there are common study materials and assignments in the itslearning course platform. In addition, the study programmes may add and cover discipline specific topics. This will be guided by the tutor teacher during the programme’s contact days.

***

THEME 1: CHANGING WORLD AND WORKING LIFE (calendar weeks 35-37)
• Common starting day 28.8. for all students of the various study programmes: orientation to the course, a keynote talk on the future working life and competence requirements, and group work with SITRA’s megatrend cards (tutor teachers will guide working of the groups).
• Students familiarize themselves independently with the materials in the itslearning course platform.
• Orientation assignment: Futures consciousness and attitudes towards future (DL 17.9.)
• (Each study programme may arrange lectures by TUAS specialists on themes such as new technologies, circular economy etc. during the programme’s contact days.)

***

THEME 2: FUTURES STUDIES AND ANTICIPATION (calendar weeks 38-41)
• Students familiarize themselves independently with the materials in the itslearning course platform.
• Scenario assignment: imagining alternative professional futures (DL 15.10.)

***

THEME 3: CHANGING WORKING LIFE IN MY FIELD (calendar weeks 42-45)
• Reading groups: reading and discussing research articles in groups that meet virtually or face to face, and creating a visual presentation based on the key ideas of the discussion. Readings are related to the changing work, working environment and competence requirements in the field of the study programme. The visual presentation will be shared in the itslearning course platform (DL 12.11.).

• Tutor teacher organizes the reading groups and compiles the list of readings (or guides students to find relevant research articles and reports).

***

THEME 4: SHAPING MY OWN FUTURE (calendar weeks (viikot 46-49)
• Students familiarize themselves independently with the materials in the itslearning course platform.
• Common Hackathon day 27.11. (a pre-meeting of the hackathon 16.11.) for all students of the various study programmes: group working to solve real working-life problems related to sustainable future. Students will familiarize themselves with the Hackathon instructions and assignments before the Hackathon day in the itslearning platform and submit their team reports there after the Hackathon (DL 3.12.).

There are two possible ways to participate in the hackathon: 1) as a commissioner or 2) as a student solving working life problems in a multidisciplinary small group.

• Final assignment: a reflective report on utilizing futures thinking and anticipation methods in one’s own work (DL 10.12.).

Evaluation scale

Hyväksytty/Hylätty

Assessment methods and criteria

Assessment will be based on the individual and group assignments submitted in the itslearning course platform and on the demonstrated contribution to the group work in contact days.

Tutor teacher evaluates the assignments (assignments 1–4). To pass the course, students are expected to participate in the contact days and to contribute to group work in them, as well as to complete and turn in all the assignments. Missing contact day participation will be compensated by an extra assignment. Tutor teachers will keep records of participation in group work in contact days and evaluate the compensatory assignments.

Qualifications

-

Objective

After completing the course, the student is able to:
is able to independently apply different work methods in practical client work and is able to critically evaluate them according to the principles of special social guidance

Content

Intensive special social guidance
Advanced working orientations and special features of guidance with different client groups
Evaluating and developing his / her own approach in professional work

Evaluation scale

H-5

Objective

After completing the course, the student is able to:
know the knowledge base of advanced social counselling, is able to apply it independently in practical client work and is able to critically evaluate its role as part of client and cooperative work

Content

Qualifications and competencies of advanced social counselling
Customer-specific legislation and social and health care reforms in 2021–2030
Customer-specific services, special services, benefits and support systems
Decision making systems, processes and responsibilities
Marginalization and advanced social counselling
Work efficiency and cost awareness
Professional ethics of advanced social counselling

Evaluation scale

H-5

Objective

After completing the course, the student is able to:
recognize the needs of the client, can support his / her human agency and participation in differ-ent kind of residential and everyday environments and is able to guide the client according to his / her needs.

Content

· Participation as a resource in client work
· A holistic model of human agency and client
· Residential and everyday environments as facilitators
· Citizenship, municipality and opportunities to influence

Evaluation scale

H-5