Project Management and Communicative Processes

AVS3010 shall encourage the students to use their humanistic background when entering working life. The course focuses on project management and communicative processes, which is an important part of project teamwork. The students will gain practical experience and knowledge related to
-project management and work processes
-scientific identities and interdisciplinary practices
-communication across backgrounds and competences
-tools for planning, presentation and reporting

KNOWLEDGE

At the end of the course the student is familiar with:
- Basic principles and relevant tools for project work
- The process from disciplinary idea to project initiation
- Interdisciplinarity in modern working life
- Communicative processes and challenges in project work,
interdisciplinary teams and project presentations

SKILLS

At the end of the course the student is able to:
- Identify challenges related to communicative processes during the course of the project
- Give qualified response to oral and written contributions from colleagues
- Report on status and results from projects, borth orally and in writing

GENERAL COMPETENCE

At the end of the course the student is able to:
- Reveal and handle communicative challenges in interdisciplinary project work
- Communicate a project’s ideas, goals, premises, challenges and solutions both orally and in writing
- Assess needs-adapted solutions on the basis of disciplinary competence

The course has a practical orientation and lectures may be supplemented by studying an actual project – through observation, interviews or conversation and document analyses, preferably linked to the master's thesis. Lecturers with project management experience from business life may be involved to a certain extent, and the students will be working in interdisciplinary groups. During the course each group will give one oral and one written presentation.