Futures Week: Developing Futures Thinking (5 cr)
Code: SER711AS0YE-3001
Basic information of implementation
- Enrollment
- 05.05.2025 - 24.10.2025
- Enrollment for the implementation has begun.
- Timing
- 27.10.2025 - 12.12.2025
- The implementation has not yet started.
- ECTS Credits
- 5 cr
- Campus
- Pasila Campus
- Teaching languages
- English
- Seats
- 15 - 60
- Degree programmes
- LEBUM Degree Programme in Leading Business Transformation
- BUTEM Degree Programme in Business Technologies
- LUJOM Degree Programme in Business Development and Leadership
- PAKEM Degree Programme in Service Business Leadership and Development
- STROM Degree Programme in Strategising in Organisations
- STROME Degree Programme in Strategising in Organisations
- AVBUM Degree Programme in Sustainable Aviation Business
- HOSBUM Degree Programme in Tourism and Hospitality Business
- BUTUM Degree Programme in Business Technologies and Management
- AIBUM Degree Programme in AI for Business Transformation
- SEBUM Service Business Management
- Teachers
- Margit Suurnäkki
- Vesa Heikkinen
- Groups
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CONTACTContact implementation
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3AMK3AMK
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BLENDEDBlended implementation
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INTENSIVEIntensive implementation
- Course
- SER711AS0YE
Evaluation scale
H-5
Schedule
Course schedule:
* Enrollment period: 5.5. –26.10.2025
* Preliminary assignment (deadline): 11.11.2025, assignment available: 27.10.2025
* Intensive period: 20. –22.11.2025 (Thursday–Saturday) 9:00-16:00 at Haaga-Helia Pasila Campus
* Individual assignment (deadline): 12.12.2025
Implementation methods, demonstration and Work&Study
This 5 ECTS course is equivalent to 135 hours of work and consists of a preliminary assignment, three on-site days, a group work assignment, a reflective individual assignment and peer assessment of the reflective individual assignment by a fellow student.
In order to pass the course, students must return the pre-course assignment, the reflective individual assignment and the peer assessment, work fully as part of a group and attend the on-site days.
It is not possible to participate in the course remotely.
Intro
In an ever-changing world, people and organizations need to be ready for future changes. This intensive course gives tools and skills for futures thinking and foresight. The theme of this course varies annually.
Futures Studies is a science that pursues a sustainable planetary lifestyle and a good life for the individual. Foresight and futures thinking are the application of Futures Studies to the design and pursuit of desirable futures.
3AMK is organising a foresight and futures thinking intensive week, aimed at YAMK students regardless of their level of foresight or futures thinking.
Learning assignments
The annual theme of this implementation is the Future Work and Competence. The group work will be focusing on the theme and the foresight and futures thinking will be reflected by the theme.