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
CONTACT
Contact implementation
3AMK
3AMK
BLENDED
Blended implementation
INTENSIVE
Intensive 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.

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