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AVS3010 - Project Management and Communicative Processes

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Examination arrangement

Examination arrangement: Home examination
Grade: Letters

Evaluation Weighting Duration Grade deviation Examination aids
Hjemmeeksamen 100/100 1 uker

Course content

AVS3010 shall encourage the students to use their humanistic background when entering working life. The course focuses on project management and communicative processes, which is an important part of project teamwork. The students will gain practical experience and knowledge related to
-project management and work processes
-scientific identities and interdisciplinary practices
-communication across backgrounds and competences
-tools for planning, presentation and reporting

Learning outcome

KNOWLEDGE

At the end of the course the student is familiar with:
- Basic principles and relevant tools for project work
- The process from disciplinary idea to project initiation
- Interdisciplinarity in modern working life
- Communicative processes and challenges in project work,
interdisciplinary teams and project presentations

SKILLS

At the end of the course the student is able to:
- Identify challenges related to communicative processes during the course of the project
- Give qualified response to oral and written contributions from colleagues
- Report on status and results from projects, borth orally and in writing

GENERAL COMPETENCE

At the end of the course the student is able to:
- Reveal and handle communicative challenges in interdisciplinary project work
- Communicate a project’s ideas, goals, premises, challenges and solutions both orally and in writing
- Assess needs-adapted solutions on the basis of disciplinary competence

Learning methods and activities

The course has a practical orientation and lectures may be supplemented by studying an actual project – through observation, interviews or conversation and document analyses, preferably linked to the master's thesis. Lecturers with project management experience from business life may be involved to a certain extent, and the students will be working in interdisciplinary groups. During the course each group will give one oral and one written presentation. The students will submit a home examination as a basis for individual grading.

Compulsory assignments

  • At least 66% attendance in lectures
  • 1 oral and 1 written group assignment

Required previous knowledge

The students must be enrolled in a master's programme at the Faculty of Humanities and must have completed HIP3000 Humanities in the Workplace or Experts in Teamwork (EiT).

Course materials

The syllabus consists of 5-600 pages. The course material will be made available on itslearning at the start of term.

Credit reductions

Course code Reduction From To
POM3000 7.5
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Facts

Version: 1
Credits:  7.5 SP
Study level: Second degree level

Coursework

Term no.: 1
Teaching semester:  AUTUMN 2016

Language of instruction: Norwegian

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Subject area(s)
  • The Humanities
Contact information
Course coordinator: Lecturer(s):

Department with academic responsibility
Department of Language and Literature

Examination

Examination arrangement: Home examination

Term Status code Evaluation Weighting Examination aids Date Time Examination system Room *
Autumn ORD Hjemme-eksamen 100/100

Release
2016-11-29

Submission
2016-12-05

Room Building Number of candidates
Spring ORD Hjemme-eksamen 100/100

Release
2017-05-26

Submission
2017-06-02

Room Building Number of candidates
  • * The location (room) for a written examination is published 3 days before examination date. If more than one room is listed, you will find your room at Studentweb.
Examination

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