MUA300 Urban Agriculture – Transdisciplinary Collaboration Groups
Credits (ECTS):15
Course responsible:Trine Hvoslef-Eide, Aasmund Bunkholt
Campus / Online:Taught campus Ås
Teaching language:Engelsk, norsk
Limits of class size:30
Course frequency:Annually
Nominal workload:375 hours
Teaching and exam period:The course starts in the August Block, and has teaching/evaluation in both August block and Autumn parallel.
About this course
The course will give students insight into, and understanding of, the role that Urban Agriculture can play in relation to sustainable urban development in a broad sense - both socially, environmentally and economically. In this context, Urban Agriculture includes everything from the professional and industrial, neighborhood gardens to cultivation in balcony boxes and mini greenhouses on the windowsill. The course is case based and current issues will change from year to year.
The course is based on work in interdisciplinary groups that will also collaborate with "clients" outside the university and thus establish and develop transdisciplinary groups. These groups will jointly define, concretize and solve specific tasks/projects within Urban Agriculture
The course 's content will comprise of three integrated processes: project within Urban Agriculture, group processes/collaboration through use and development of a "toolbox". The project work will include the establishment and development of specific projects for Urban Agriculture in various contexts. Process work/collaboration will include reflection and learning, related to team work and what kind of prerequisites and challenges are associated with this. Use and development of a «toolbox» will include introduction to different «tools», that may be relevant in relation to different types of tasks. It will also be relevant to look at adaptation and further development of various "tools".
Learning outcome
Learning outcomes
KNOWLEDGE:
- The student will be able to account for which subject areas are included in the concept of «Urban Agriculture» and circular economy, and be able to analyze the interaction between the subject areas in any project
- The student will be able to explain basic group theory and prerequisites for good collaboration across subjects, and with external "clients"
- The student will be aware of how their own and others' pattern of behavior affect interaction
- The student will have acquired relevant concepts from other disciplines than their own
SKILLS
- The student are able to use their own competence within a certain field of science, interact and communicate with other subject disciplines/fields/external partners and use their subject expression in a correct way
- The student can reflect on their collaboration, and analyze how the group communicates, plans, decides, solves tasks, handles disagreements and relates to academic, social and personal challenges.
- The student is able to set common goals to deliver/solve group tasks/exercises
- The student can use suitable tools to solve the tasks
- The student can present the assignments along the way and discuss with the external partners
GENERAL COMPETENCE
- Students can cooperate with the other disciplines than their own fields of study
- The student will have become aware of what their own competence can bring to a interdisciplinary group and in collaboration with external "clients"
- The student can solve complex problems in interdisciplinary groups, which their own field would not be able to solve on their own
- The student can use project management tools and lead projects
- The student are able to make oral and written presentations of the assignments
- The student are able to give constructive feedback to the individual team members, and to the team as a whole, and reflect on constructive feedback from the group
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