Content, progress and pedagogy of the module

The purpose of the pilot project is for students to acquire practical experience with collaborative group work that involves multiple disciplinary backgrounds. The pilot project will support students’ abilities to identify and engage with challenges, barriers and potentials in Techno-Anthropological work across disciplines.

Learning objectives

Knowledge

• explain competencies that students bring into the Master’s program
• communicate research results in short
• explain differences between mono-disciplinary, multi-disciplinary, inter-disciplinary and trans-disciplinary
• present technical and socio-technical issues relevant for the study of technology
• explain problem-based learning

Skills

• discuss Techno-Anthropology as an interdisciplinary area
• conduct a problem analysis using literature search and review
• identify interdisciplinary problems in technology
• form interdisciplianary and heterogene project groups

Competences

• design, produce and present a scientific poster
• integrate different domain knowledge, paradigms and professional competencies into an inter-disciplinary research theme
• draft initiating interdisciplinary problems relevant for the study of technology from a socio-technical perspective

Type of instruction

Project work, supervisor and teacher feedback, lectures, classroom instructions, exercises, seminars, case analysis, reflection.

Exam

Prerequisite for enrollment for the exam

• Mandatory poster hand in and presentation before examination

Exams