Circular economy (5 cr)

Evaluation scale

H-5

Content scheduling

The course starts on Thursday 3.9.2020 and ends 8.10.2020.

The course focuses on the principles and functions of circular economy from the perspective of sustainable development. Benefits and opportunities of circular economy for society and companies, and business models of circular economy.

The course is fully online. There are no lectures online on a specific time. You can do the tasks and read the materials when it is bet suited for you. The tasks, however, have specific deadlines and it is very important to keep those deadlines.

Objective

After completing the course student:
- masters the basic concepts of circular economy
- understands the limited scope of resources
- knows the most important business models of circular economy
- understands how circular economy links to own field of studies
- knows how to allocate resources for tasks to be done, and to take into account the objectives set by supervisor or client
- can construct a concise and informative presentation

Content

Principles and functions of circular economy from the perspective of sustainable development. Benefits and opportunities of circular economy for society and companies, and business models of circular economy.

Materials

All materials available on Itslearning platform.

Teaching methods

The course consists of materials to read and tasks to do. All the material will be available on Itslearning platform.

Exam schedules

No exam on the course.
Six individual obligatory online assignments (e.g. report, business model presentation, peer & self-evaluation).

As this is an online course based on tasks:
- You don't have the possibility to raise your final grade or a grade for an individual task.
-If you fail the course, you have one possibility to recomplete the course. Separate information from teachers if needed.

Pedagogic approaches and sustainable development

The course consists of different kinds of activating tasks, as well as assessment (e.g. self-assessment) that makes the student more capable to evaluate the learning.

Completion alternatives

There are no alternative ways to complete the course.

Student workload

There are six obligatory tasks on the course:
Phase I: tasks 1A & 1B
Phase II: tasks 2A & 2B
Phase III: tasks 3A & 3B

The course is 5 credits, so the workload is appr. 135 hours.

Evaluation methods and criteria

In this course the grading is numerical from 0-5.
Final grade consists of:
90 % teacher assessment based on following tasks (please see the assessment criteria for each assignment):
Tasks 1A+1B, 40 %
Task 2B, 50 %
The final 10 % from self-assessment (task 3B).

Failed (0)

Not completing the course.

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1-2)

The student barely masters the basic concepts of circular economy and understands the limited scope of resources. The student is poorly able to identify the most important business models of circular economy and not able to describe them in detail. The student can vaguely perceive how the circular economy links to their own field of studies.
The student poorly allocates resources for tasks to be done and is not able to take into account the objectives set by supervisor or client. The student is poorly able to construct a concise and informative presentation.

Assessment criteria, good (3-4)

The student masters the basic concepts of circular economy and understands the limited scope of resources in a good level. The student is able to identify and describe the most important business models of circular economy. The student can perceive how the circular economy links to their own field of studies.
The student knows how to allocate resources for tasks to be done, and to take into account the objectives set by supervisor or client. The student is able to construct a concise and informative presentation in good level.

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

The student masters the basic concepts of circular economy and understands and is able to describe the limited scope of resources excellently. The student is able to identify and describe the most important business models of circular economy in an excellent level. The student can perceive how the circular economy links to their own field of studies.
The student knows how to allocate resources for tasks to be done, and to take into account the objectives set by supervisor or client in an excellent level. The student is able to construct a concise and informative presentation in excellent level.

Qualifications

No need for previous studies.

Further information

Further information from: piia.nurmi@turkuamk.fi


Number of students on the course:

• 80 spots for TUAS students
• 20 spots for Campusonline students
• 20 spots for Open UAS students