POLS227-20SU2 (D) Summer Nov 2020 start (Distance)

Strategic Foresight for Better Public Policies

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 9 November 2020
End Date: Sunday, 13 December 2020
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Friday, 13 November 2020
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Friday, 27 November 2020

Description

This course introduces concepts, methods, tools and techniques of Strategic Foresight, which is a framework for working with stakeholders and communities to identify a set of plausible futures that can guide policy-making and decisions. This course will introduce you to concepts such as systems mapping, plausible futures, scenario development, weak signals, futures wheel, trends, and change drivers. We will also consider principles of effective and ethical community engagement in both bicultural and multicultural contexts. Strategic Foresight is used by a range of government, quasi-government and non-government actors such as the OECD, UN, New Zealand Defence Force, Shell, CSIRO, and various national governments. Upon completion of this course, students will be prepared to make a difference through the application of foresight tools and methods.

Prerequisites

Any 15 points at 100 level from POLS, or
any 60 points at 100 level from the Schedule V of the BA.

Course Coordinator

For further information see Language, Social and Political Sciences Head of Department

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $777.00

International fee $3,375.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Language, Social and Political Sciences .

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