Study Guide

Objective

The student can create a plan to complete the studies and prepare him/herself for situations in job-hunting.
Developing working life skills – towards working life
- The student can apply what he/she has learned in a work environment

- The student gives feedback through the student barometre questionnaire

ISP
- The student creates an employment and career plan

Content

Developing working life skills – towards working life
- training the use of innovative methods

- RDI/cooperatives/working life as a part of studies

- thesis as a part of studies and career planning

- entrepreneurship
- practical training
- working life skills

- cooperation with companies
ISP
- development discussion

- the graduation process

- opportunities for postgraduate studies

Materials

See Optima

Teaching methods

Contact days with visiting keynote speakers and TUAS specialists, group work in multidisciplinary groups, reading and discussing in reading groups, hackathon, individual written assignments.

Student workload

Contact days and lectures: 16 h

Online and virtual working individually and in groups: 119 h

Group work and assignments:
• Starting day 13.1.2020: 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 Optima (tutor teacher evaluates, accepted/not accepted).
• Hackathon 27.4.2020: multidisciplinary groups work to solve real working-life problems.

Individual work and assignments:
• Scenario assignment (in Optima): imagining alternative professional futures (tutor teacher evaluates, accepted/not accepted).
• Reflective report on utilizing futures thinking and anticipation methods in one’s own work (tutor teacher evaluates, accepted/not accepted)

Content scheduling

The course is compulsory for all TUAS 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 two contact days (13.1.2020 and 27.4.2020) common to all students of the various study programmes, and further, there are common study materials and assignments in Optima. 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 (weeks 1–4of the course, 13.1.–7.2.2020)
• Common starting day 13.1.2020 for all students of the various study programmes: keynote speeches on the changing working life and competence requirements, introduction to the course, and group work with SITRA’s megatrend cards (a tutor will guide working of the groups).
• Students familiarize themselves with the materials in Optima.
• (Each study programme may arrange lectures by TUAS specialists on themes such as new technologies, circular economy etc. during the programme’s contact days.)
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THEME 2: FUTURES STUDIES AND ANTICIPATION (weeks 5–8, 10.2.–6.3.2020)

• Students familiarize themselves with the materials in Optima.
• An individual scenario assignment (in Optima): imagining alternative professional futures (tutor teacher evaluates, accepted/not accepted).
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THEME 3: CHANGING WORKING LIFE IN MY FIELD (weeks 9–12, 9.3.–3.4.2020)

• 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 Optima.
• Tutor teacher compiles the list of readings (or guides students to find relevant research articles and reports) and is in charge of the evaluation (accepted/not accepted).
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THEME 4: SHAPING MY OWN FUTURE (weeks 13–16, 6.4–1.5.2020)
• Students familiarize themselves with the materials in Optima.
• Common Hackathon day 27.4.2020 for all students of the various study programmes: group working to solve real working-life problems related to sustainable future.
• Individual assignment: a reflective report on utilizing futures thinking and anticipation methods in one’s own work (tutor teacher evaluates, accepted/not accepted).
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Contact days's location: Monday 13.1.2020 (ICT- CIty / Lemminkäisenkatu campus), Monday 27.4.2020 (Lemminkäisenkatu campus)

Evaluation scale

Hyväksytty/Hylätty

Assessment methods and criteria

Assessment will be based on the individual and group assignments submitted in Optima and on the demonstrated contribution to the group work in contact days. Tutor teacher evaluates the assignments. 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.