Admission requirements
This course is only available to students of the Honours College TGC.
Maximum number of students: 25.
Description
“Learning without reflection is a waste. Reflection without learning is dangerous.” - Confucius
In this highly interactive course we will study some of the most relevant skills for professionals in the 21st century. This course presumes that professionals with high emotional intelligence and self-awareness are the bound to become leaders of the next decades. Your consciousness on social, societal, individual and environmental levels will be enlarged through this course.
Some profound differences between university and professional life that we will tap into:
You will have to work intensively together with people you don’t know well.
You will have to present yourself and your results all the time.
You will have to be ready to negotiate for yourself and your organisation.
Nobody is responsible for your own development and well-being but you.
You will never have a clear idea how to get a good grade, since nobody is grading you and there are no assessment guidelines.
You will always be uncertain about the relevance and impact of your projects and task
Learning in this course is done by a combination of practising and reflection called experiental learning.
The course will be taught by Jacob Koolstra, you and all your fellow students. Each theme will partly be covered by Jacob and partly by teaching groups existing of students that are guided by Wicher.
After the lecture the teaching groups will get adequate and constructive feedback from their audience.
Course objectives
Objectives of the course are:
Practise a growth mindset by identifying continuous potential for personal development
Examine core values and identify a personal mission statement
Recognise the way that communication and presentation are mutually inclusive
Apply personal and theoretical reflection in writing
Practise how to generate new perspectives on conventional wisdom to discover possibilities, creative thinking
Connect traditional to new notions of (entrepreneurial) value
Timetable
On the right side of the programme front page of the E-guide you will find links to the website and timetables, uSis and Brightspace.
Lectures will have the following topics:
Introduction and self-awareness (1); Communication (2);
Time management (3); Handling stress (4); Creativity and Innovation (5); Handling conflicts (6); Future Lookout (7)
Mode of instruction
Learning in this course is done by a combination of practising and reflection called experiental learning.
The course will be taught by Jacob Koolstra. Each theme will partly be covered by Jacob and partly by teaching groups existing of students that are guided by Jacob.
After the lecture the teaching groups will get adequate and constructive feedback from their audience.
This course is worth 5 ECTS, which means the total course load equals 140 hours.
Seminars: 7 seminars of 3 hours (participation is mandatory)
Preparation by teaching group: 15 hours per group
Literature reading: 1 hour/week
Preparational work: 2 hours/week
Essay Assignments: 1 hour per week
Reflection: 1 hour per week
Assessment method
The assessment methods will look as follows; deadline is dl.
25% autobiography (pass/fail basis)
25% future outlook (pass/fail basis)
20% writing reflective blogpost (pass/fail basis)
30% workshop (pass/fail basis)
☒ Option 1: Students could only pass this course after successful completion of all partial exams. ☐ Option 2: It is not required to successfully complete all partial exams in order to pass this course. Students are allowed to compensate a ‘fail’ (grades up to and including 5.0).
Reading list
7 habits of Highly effective people by S. Covey
Nonviolent Communication by M. Rozenberg
Read: Heike Bruch and Sumantra Ghoshal: Beware of the busy manager: HBR https://hbr.org/2002/02/beware-the-busy-manager
Watch Daniel Pink on motivation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc
Registration
TGC coordinator/administration will take care of enrolment.
Please note: students are not required to register through uSis for this class. Your registration will be done centrally after successful completion of the class.
Contact
Annette Righolt Jacob Koolstra
Remarks
Students will:
Gain self-awareness and learn about their leadership style
Improve on their ability of Public speaking
How to be more creative and innovative
How to coop with stress more effective
Learn about effective conflict handling
Think about their professional and personal future
Become more efficient in their time management