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= Courses in English at TU Berlin =
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= Blue Science =
==Open for Every Student from Anywhere in the World - Blue Science – a transdisciplinary course discussing social and ecological responsbilities - Thursday - 10.00 > 14.00 CEST - Starting on 20 April 2023 ==
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==Open for Every Student from Anywhere in the World - Blue Science – a transdisciplinary course discussing social and ecological responsbilities - Thursday - 12.00 > 16.00 CEST - Starting on 18 April 2024 ==
 
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During the pandemic, we had the opportunity to offer the Blue Engineering course online and in English.
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Blue Science is an online course designed to reflect our personal and disciplinary approaches to science and transformation - what are our tools - by choice and by habit -  for finding meaningful knowledge about the world? What do different approaches look like? And could they be combined for the better?
For two semesters, the Blue Engineering course at TU Berlin has returned to its traditional face-to-face format. However, we want to continue to develop online courses that provide opportunities for international and interdisciplinary exchange. Starting in the summer semester of 2023, a second course from the Blue Engineering family will be offered at the TU Berlin: Blue Science:
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Blue Science is a highly interactive, synchronous online course in English developed at the TU Berlin. It is open to participants from all over the world and from all faculties.  
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Blue Science is a seminar-style course where frontal teaching hardly ever occurs. Through highly interactive didactic methods, students engage in dialogue with each other. Once a week, all students take part in the video conference and prepare assignments via a digital learning platform. In the second half of the semester, students work in small groups to develop a research design for a transdisciplinary project.
 
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We will discuss issues of global and ecological justice, first reflecting on our own disciplinary and personal backgrounds and then getting to know the other perspectives in the course. Finally, we will explore and formulate possible transdisciplinary research questions.
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What to expect:
 
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6 ECTS graded course for TU Berlin students
 
6 ECTS graded course for TU Berlin students
  
Summer term 2023 will be the first iteration of the course. While we have a lot of experience in teaching courses dealing with issues of social and environmental responsibility, and have gained some experience with international online courses in English over the last few years, we expect the premiere to have a kind of workshop/prototype atmosphere.
 
  
 
If you are interested, please send an email to Anton Schaefer (he/his) a.schaefer@tu-berlin.de.
 
If you are interested, please send an email to Anton Schaefer (he/his) a.schaefer@tu-berlin.de.
  
 
== Blue Science - Course Description ==
 
== Blue Science - Course Description ==
The course consist of three main phases. We will
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=== Learning Outcomes ===
# explore and reflect on our own perspectives on social and environmental responsibility and on global goals for sustainability - taking into account both disciplinary and personal backgrounds.  
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# analyze commonalities and differences in perspectives and research methodologies represented in the course
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Knowledge of:
# combine multiple perspectives into a transdisciplinary research approach and create a research proposal for a potential transdisciplinary research project.
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* social and ecological crises
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* internationally agreed sustainability goals and their metrics
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* approaches to the socio-ecological transformation of society
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* discourses on transformative science
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* concepts of inter- and transdisciplinarity
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* toolboxes for transdisciplinary research
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Skills:
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* in leading discussions in groups
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* in working together in small, interdisciplinary and international groups
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* in choosing good research questions
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* in communicating possible research projects
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Competencies:
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* to reflect on personal perspectives on social and environmental responsibility  
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* to reflect on specific perspectives and methods of one's own discipline
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* to collectively reflect on the heterogeneity of perceptions and knowledge related to social and ecological crises
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* to reflect the roles science could, should and does play in processes of transformation
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* to identify possible contributions of the individual sciences to the development and achievement of global sustainability goals  
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* to collaboratively design transdisciplinary research projects
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* to cooperate with others for a just, social and ecological transition
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* to cope with the dilemma arising from the ideals of transformative science and the strive for scientific neutrality
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* to cope with the decision-making dilemma arising from personal, disciplinary and societal responsibility
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=== Contents ===
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# learning and values in interactive courses.  
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# social and environmental crises
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# the scientific method – background and disciplinary differences
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# classification systems for academic disciplines
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# transformative science – idea and critique
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# personal and disciplinary *lenses*
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# multi-, inter- and transdisciplinarity
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# diversity of perspectives in the course  
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# possible contributions of one's own discipline
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# possible contributions of the other disciplines represented
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# development of a transdisciplinary research question
  
After successfully passing the module, students will have:
 
=== Knowledge===
 
* different perspectives on
 
** social and ecological crises
 
** internationally agreed sustainability goals and their metrics
 
* the interrelationships of technology, nature, the individual and society
 
* of approaches to the socio-ecological transformation of society
 
* the relationship of sustainability to political ecology and democracy
 
* central concepts and methods of one's own discipline
 
===Skills===
 
* in leading discussions in large groups
 
* working together in small, interdisciplinary and international groups
 
* in the joint development of transdisciplinary research projects
 
===Competencies===
 
* to reflect on personal perspectives on social and ecological responsibility
 
* reflecting with others on the heterogeneity of perceptions and knowledge related to social and environmental crises
 
* to identify possible contributions of the individual sciences to the elaboration and achievement of global sustainability goals
 
* to analyze and evaluate the interactions between technology, nature, the individual and society through single-scientific, inter- and transdisciplinary approaches with regard to their historical causes and present and future consequences
 
* to cooperate with others for democratic decision making in terms of process, outcome and implementation
 
* to cope with the decision-making dilemma arising from individual, disciplinary and societal responsibility
 
  
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= Blue Engineering in short =
 
= Blue Engineering in short =
 
The interdisciplinary Blue Engineering Course offers prospective engineers a look beyond their horizons and an (inter-)active approach to their social and ecological responsibility. This gives them the opportunity to become aware of their own values and reflect them with others. In addition, the teaching/learning process is essentially shifted to the students, so that they assume responsibility co-conducting own course and at the same time co-develop the whole course for the future semesters. All in all, the students complement their specialist knowledge from their regular study programs with orientation skills and competences that help them to know their role in terms of technology and society and to shape it together with others.
 
The interdisciplinary Blue Engineering Course offers prospective engineers a look beyond their horizons and an (inter-)active approach to their social and ecological responsibility. This gives them the opportunity to become aware of their own values and reflect them with others. In addition, the teaching/learning process is essentially shifted to the students, so that they assume responsibility co-conducting own course and at the same time co-develop the whole course for the future semesters. All in all, the students complement their specialist knowledge from their regular study programs with orientation skills and competences that help them to know their role in terms of technology and society and to shape it together with others.
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[[Baukasten:Startseite|There are now more than 140 such modules, which are regularly used in the Blue Engineering Seminar and outside. They will are freely accessible on the homepage since June 2017.]]
 
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== Structure of the Blue Engineering Seminar ==
 
== Structure of the Blue Engineering Seminar ==
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=== Gefördert vom / Sponsored by ===
 
=== Gefördert vom / Sponsored by ===
 
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Blue Science

Open for Every Student from Anywhere in the World - Blue Science – a transdisciplinary course discussing social and ecological responsbilities - Thursday - 12.00 > 16.00 CEST - Starting on 18 April 2024

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Blue Science is an online course designed to reflect our personal and disciplinary approaches to science and transformation - what are our tools - by choice and by habit - for finding meaningful knowledge about the world? What do different approaches look like? And could they be combined for the better?

Blue Science is a seminar-style course where frontal teaching hardly ever occurs. Through highly interactive didactic methods, students engage in dialogue with each other. Once a week, all students take part in the video conference and prepare assignments via a digital learning platform. In the second half of the semester, students work in small groups to develop a research design for a transdisciplinary project.

What to expect: Weekly synchronous online course meetings using Zoom online video software (Thursdays, 10am - 2pm Berlin Summer Time / GMT+2, 12 meetings in total). - Highly interactive course design with almost no lecture-style teaching - you will be interacting with other participants most of the time. Be prepared to speak in English and activate your camera. - Reading assignments between sessions - Several small individual writing assignments throughout the semester - One or two larger group assignments

6 ECTS graded course for TU Berlin students


If you are interested, please send an email to Anton Schaefer (he/his) a.schaefer@tu-berlin.de.

Blue Science - Course Description

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge of:

  • social and ecological crises
  • internationally agreed sustainability goals and their metrics
  • approaches to the socio-ecological transformation of society
  • discourses on transformative science
  • concepts of inter- and transdisciplinarity
  • toolboxes for transdisciplinary research

Skills:

  • in leading discussions in groups
  • in working together in small, interdisciplinary and international groups
  • in choosing good research questions
  • in communicating possible research projects

Competencies:

  • to reflect on personal perspectives on social and environmental responsibility
  • to reflect on specific perspectives and methods of one's own discipline
  • to collectively reflect on the heterogeneity of perceptions and knowledge related to social and ecological crises
  • to reflect the roles science could, should and does play in processes of transformation
  • to identify possible contributions of the individual sciences to the development and achievement of global sustainability goals
  • to collaboratively design transdisciplinary research projects
  • to cooperate with others for a just, social and ecological transition
  • to cope with the dilemma arising from the ideals of transformative science and the strive for scientific neutrality
  • to cope with the decision-making dilemma arising from personal, disciplinary and societal responsibility

Contents

  1. learning and values in interactive courses.
  2. social and environmental crises
  3. the scientific method – background and disciplinary differences
  4. classification systems for academic disciplines
  5. transformative science – idea and critique
  6. personal and disciplinary *lenses*
  7. multi-, inter- and transdisciplinarity
  8. diversity of perspectives in the course
  9. possible contributions of one's own discipline
  10. possible contributions of the other disciplines represented
  11. development of a transdisciplinary research question