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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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Aktuelle Version vom 8. April 2024, 17:45 Uhr
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
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
- learning and values in interactive courses.
- social and environmental crises
- the scientific method – background and disciplinary differences
- classification systems for academic disciplines
- transformative science – idea and critique
- personal and disciplinary *lenses*
- multi-, inter- and transdisciplinarity
- diversity of perspectives in the course
- possible contributions of one's own discipline
- possible contributions of the other disciplines represented
- development of a transdisciplinary research question