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Archive Spring 2018 | Resources, Guidelines and Work Process | Open events at CEMUS

Deadlines and time table

The meetings and material listed below will be explained further by instructions sent out by email and at actual meetings. The meetings and material are fundamental aspects of the work with your course and everyone is expected to participate. In other words – not being at a meeting is the same as not showing up for work. At the end of certain sessions we will book follow-up meetings that will be added to the list below, please check for updates. CEMUS Fika every Wednesday at 15.15. Happy course coordination!

MARCH 2018

week 11
NEW COURSE COORDINATORS
Monday March 12 at 9.15-12.00 Start-up new course coordinators at CEMUS, welcome to Daniela, Ewa and Lovisa!

Purpose: Introduce the course coordinator work at CEMUS and present parallel starting-points for that work.
Key documents: Course coordinators autumn 2018 | Course resource persons | Course Coordinator Guide Autumn 2018 (email and print) | CEMUS Transcending Boundaries (print)

EVERYBODY
Tuesday-Friday March 13-29 Course thematic start-up – connect with your fellow coordinator, read course reports, meet last semesters coordinator/s, and meet with course resource person.

Purpose: Start the process of understanding what the course thematically is focused on, different pedagogic methods used in the course, and start the fun process of creating the best possible course 2018.
Key documents: Course syllabus/kursplan | Course report (email and print)

EVERYBODY
Tuesday-Friday March 13-29 Project and time plan start-up – with your coordinator colleague work through and discuss the different documents, then meet up with course resource person and decide on time plan/budget in work description and project plan.

Purpose: Get a clear understanding of the work description and how the total hours is best spent to create the best course possible, agree on how to collaborate, and formulate a project plan that enables a clear and concrete work process.
Key documents: Work description & time budget 2018 (email) | Project plan (email) | Collaborative Agreement (email)

week 12
CEMUS STAFF
Wednesday March 21 at 12.10-13.00 Staff meeting (bring your own lunch) in CEMUS Library.

EVERYBODY
Thursday March 22 at 10.15-12.00 LEGO-build your work process and time plan, in CEMUS Library, with Alexis Engström and Sanna Gunnarsson.

Purpose: Visualize the use time work process …
Key documents: Work description & time budget 2018 (email)

week 13

Easter-break March 30-April 2 (longer vacation or distance work possible)

APRIL 2018

week 14
CEMUS STAFF
Wednesday April 4 at 12.10-13.00 Staff meeting (bring your own lunch) in CEMUS Library.

EVERYBODY
Thursday April 5 at 10.15-12.00 in CEMUS Library, Course Work Groups 101 – putting together a work group, getting everybody in the room, preparing meetings and chairing meetings with Alexis Engström.

Purpose: Create a better collaborative relationship with the course work groups and its individual members that makes the quality of the courses better.
Key documents: Form to fill out and discuss with your colleague before the meeting and bring to the meeting, download here – Form KAG 2018

DEADLINE
Friday April 6 at 12.00 Email or talk to Daniel about suggested work group members, decide together with Daniel. After this deadline you then contact new and returning work group members.

DEADLINE
Friday April 6 at 12.00 Upload to CEMUS-Edu-Box (see email with invitation/link):

• Work description & time budget 2018
• Project plan
• Collaborative Agreement

week 15
EVERYBODY
Thursday April 12 at 12.00-13.00 Lunch seminar in CEMUS Library – Multi-Inter-Trans-disciplinary methods and processes in CEMUS courses with Malin Östman.

Purpose: Develop and strengthen the multi-inter-trans-disciplinary methods and processes in CEMUS courses.
Key documents:

• Crossing Boundaries – An Analytical Look at Cemus’ Educational Model by David O. Kronlid and Robert Österbergh
• Över Gränserna – En analytisk blick på Cemus utbildningsmodell Robert Österbergh och David Olsson Kronlid

week 16
EVERYBODY
Week 16-17 Work Group Meeting 1 with summary of last semesters course, creative input, course outline and some general decisions. Email course reports and other relevant material for the meeting one week in advance.

CEMUS STAFF
Wednesday April 18 at 12.10-13.00 Staff meeting (bring your own lunch) in CEMUS Library.

CEMUS STAFF
Thursday April 19 at 10.15-12.00 A Journey into the Uncomfort Zone: Resistance, Revolution and Reckless Talk, seminar on Derrick Jensen’s “Walking on Water” in CEMUS Library, with Daniel Mossberg.

Purpose: Investigate, uncover and discuss some of the key norms and practices in CEMUS courses and try to formulate a first draft ‘the purposes of education at CEMUS’.
Key documents: Derrick Jensen’s “Walking on Water” (print, handed out)

See summary and material here: http://www.web.cemus.se/ccs-2018-04-19/ password in email.

week 17
EVERYBODY
Week 16-17 Work Group Meeting 1 with summary of last semesters course, creative input, course outline and some general decisions. Email course reports and other relevant material for the meeting one week in advance.

DEADLINE
Before April 26 Produce idea map, course outline/structure for schedule to CEMUS Course Assembly 1. The idea map, course outline should be discussed with you course resource person before April 26.

EVERYBODY
Thursday April 26 at 09.15-12.00 CEMUS Course Assembly 1: workshop focused on course concept, outline and structure, in CEMUS Library.

Instruction: Make an “Idea Map” where you include the courses most important ideas around structure, outline and themes. Think about the framing, and identity of your course. Feel free to use Pictures to illustrate your thoughts. Bring the map to the session. You will also be given the opportunity to briefly present it infront of your collegues.
Purpose: To critically discuss the course framing and ideas with the other coordinators.
Key documents: Use your own documents concerning course outline, ideas, themse etc. Make an “ideamap” see instructions above.

MAY

week 18
CEMUS STAFF
Wednesday May 2 at 12.10-13.00 Staff meeting (bring your own lunch) in CEMUS Library.

EVERYBODY
Friday May 4 at 9.15-12.00 on Education in CEMUS Library with Ernest Aigner, PhD Researcher and former Course Coordinator GEC.

Purpose: …
Key documents: …

week 19
REGISTRATION NO LATER THAN MARCH 12
Monday-Wednesday May 7-9 ClimateExistence Conference, www.climateexistence.se.

week 20
EVERYBODY
Week 20-21 Work Group Meeting 2 with decision on schedule, literature and examination. Email creative documents that opens up for input and other relevant material for the meeting one week in advance.

CEMUS STAFF
Wednesday May 16 at 12.10-13.00 Staff meeting (bring your own lunch) in CEMUS Library.

EVERYBODY
Friday May 18 at 10.15-12.00 Students as active … with Maria Wolrath-Söderberg.

Purpose: …
Key documents: …

week 21
EVERYBODY
Week 20-21 Work Group Meeting 2 with decision on schedule, literature and examination. Email creative documents that opens up for input and other relevant material for the meeting one week in advance.

EVERYBODY
Morning/before lunch May 21-24 (to be decided) with Rachel Freeman on “Critical Systems Thinking”. More to come!

Purpose: …
Key documents: …

EVERYBODY
Friday May 25 Uppsala Sustainability Festival, www.sustainabilityfestival.se.

week 22
DEADLINE
Before May 30 Visualize examination and literature, to CEMUS Course Assembly 2. The material should be discussed with you course resource person before May 30.

EVERYBODY
Wednesday May 30 at 9.15-12.00 CEMUS Course Assembly 2, focused on literature and examination, in CEMUS Library, with Malin Östman.

Purpose: …
Key documents: …

CEMUS STAFF
Wednesday May 30 at 12.10-13.00 Staff meeting (bring your own lunch) in CEMUS Library.

JUNE-JULY 2018

DEADLINE
Friday June 1 Schedule with times and dates and guest and your own sessions (not all guests have to be booked but decided on), literature (books and outline for course reader) and examination model should now be finished. Book meeting with course resource person and meet no later than June 1, print and post schedule on bulletin board in corridor, and email Daniel your schedule. Remember to sync joint guests with other courses already in May.

week 24-29 -no significant work – vacation and flex hours saved or used in March-May period.

week 30
DEADLINE
No later than Friday July 27 Send out welcome letters (via email) with preliminary schedule and other course info that you have decided upon with the Course Work Group in May. You will get email addresses via email from Daniel.

The email needs to include:

• Welcome letter
• A preliminary schedule with mandatory sessions clearly stated and outline of examination and deadlines
• List of literature – books, course readers and other material

AUGUST 2018

week 32

Everybody back to Uppsala from vacation Monday August 6.

week 33
EVERYBODY
Thursday-Friday August 16-17 starting at 9.30 Thursday, ending at 15.30 Friday Pre-semester prep and staff trip to the Sigtuna Foundation. Room and food included.

week 34

week 35
EVERYBODY
No later than Monday August 27 email to students and post at course page a finalised schedule.

SEPTEMBER-DECEMBER

week 36
EVERYBODY
Monday September 3

The Autumn Semester 2018 starts!

JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2019

EVERYBODY
Date and time to be decided Course Report Conference autumn 2018 courses.

Resources, Guidelines and Work Process