3 ECTS credits
75 h study time
Offer 1 with catalog number 8020277GNR for all students in the 2nd semester
at
a (G) Postgraduate - preliminary level.
- Semester
- 2nd semester
- Enrollment based on exam contract
- Impossible
- Grading method
- Grading (scale from 0 to 20)
- Can retake in second session
- Yes
- Taught in
- English
- Faculty
- Faculty of Social Sciences & SolvayBusinessSchool
- Department
- ES Academische eenheid
- Educational team
- Decaan ES
(course titular)
- Activities and contact hours
- 9 contact hours Lecture
15 contact hours Independent or External Form of Study
- Course Content
- Predicting the Future: review of long-range planning documents and “futures” reporting from various governments and business sectors. What matters to each? What is different?
- Frameworks of Analysis: threat assessments, risk assessments and strategies to address challenges.
- Assessing competing strategies; analysis of objectives and committed resources; prioritization.
- Class exercise marrying private and public sector perspectives on the management of emerging challenges in their shared geo-political landscape.
- Course material
- Course text (Recommended) : Challenges in the Emerging Geo-Political Landscape
- Additional info
Study material
The syllabus and an electronic reader comprised of selected writings will be provided by the professor. Key readings will include:
- Mathew Burrows, The Future Declassified: Megatrends That Will Undo the World Unless We Take Action, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
- National Intelligence Council (U.S.), Global Trends 2030: Alternative Worlds, December 2012.
- Francis Fukuyama, ed., Blindside: How to Anticipate Forcing Events and Wild Cards in Global Politics, Washington, DC: Brookings Institute Press, 2007.
Complementary study material
Professor will provide a list of additional recommended and suggested readings as needed.
(!) The teaching and assessment format of this course is subject to change if the minimum number of students isn’t reached.
- Learning Outcomes
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General Competences
This course is designed to acquaint students with the multitude of complex challenges that are emerging in the geo-political landscape that affect business and government leaders alike. The course will examine the detailed requirements for sound threat assessments, students will appreciate the profound differences (and importance) between threat assessments and risk assessments, and they will devise strategies to address several competing, complex challenges.
- Grading
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The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Oral Exam determines 50% of the final mark.
Other Exam determines 50% of the final mark.
Within the Oral Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:
- Oral Exam
with a relative weight of 50
which comprises 50% of the final mark.
Within the Other Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:
- Class exercise
with a relative weight of 50
which comprises 50% of the final mark.
- Additional info regarding evaluation
(!) The teaching and assessment format of this course is subject to change if the minimum number of students isn’t reached.
- Allowed unsatisfactory mark
- The supplementary Teaching and Examination Regulations of your faculty stipulate whether an allowed unsatisfactory mark for this programme unit is permitted.
Academic context
This offer is part of the following study plans:
Postgraduate Certificate Economic Diplomacy: Standaard traject
Postgraduate Certificate International Trade and Investment: Standaard traject
Postgraduate Certificate Flagship Programme in Economic Diplomacy and International Business: Standaard traject