Spring 2016

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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. At the end of certain sessions we will book follow-up meetings that will be added to the list below, please check for updates. Course coordinator fika every Wednesday at 15.15. Happy course coordination!

OCTOBER 2015

week 40
NEW COURSE COORDINATORS
Thursday October 1 at 9.15-12.00 Start-up and intro to working at CEMUS.

EVERYBODY
Friday October 2 at 10.15-16.00 Course Report Conference Spring 2015, bring your own lunch. Program and interactions can be found here: http://www.web.cemus.se/course-report-conference-spring-2015/‎ Followed by post-conference mingle.

week 41
EVERYBODY
Monday-Friday October 5-15 Course specific start-ups – connect with your fellow coordinator, read course reports, meet last semesters coordinators, and meet with course resource persons.

TEAM HÅLLBAR UTVECKLING B (with HUB, VVV, TM&MF & LF)
Wednesday October 7 at 9.15-11.00 Start-up of cooperating courses within the HUB-framework. More meetings will be booked at or after this session.

CEMUS STAFF
Wednesday October 7 at 12.00-13.00 Staff meeting (bring your own lunch) in the Bunker/Öland.

EVERYBODY
Wednesday October 7 at 13.15-16.00 with Jakob Grandin: Discussion on principles and points of departures for our education (for sustainable development), and what we really want to achieve with our courses (more or less), in Norrland II.

week 42
EVERYBODY
Monday-Friday October 5-15 Course specific start-ups – connect with your fellow coordinator, read course reports, meet last semesters coordinators, and meet with course resource persons.

EVERYBODY
Tuesday October 13 at 15.30 Visit by Alison Cook-Sather, UU Pedagogical conference invited keyonote, co-author of “Engaging Students as Partners in Learning and Teaching: A Guide for Faculty”.

UPPSALA UNIVERSITY STAFF
Wednesday October 14 at 8.45-16.30 UU Pedagogical conference at Blåsenhus, program can be found here: https://mp.uu.se/web/info/undervisa/kurser-och-seminarier/konferenser

DEADLINE
Friday October 16 at 12.00 Email project plan, time plan and associated appendixes to Daniel Mossberg and your course resource person.

DEADLINE
Friday October 16 at 12.00 Email suggested list of work group members/kursarbetsgrupp, KAG, to Daniel and your course resource person.

week 43
EVERYBODY
Monday October 19 at 10.15-12.00 with Daniel Mossberg: Re-working the work groups and project planning in Norrland II.

CEMUS STAFF
Wednesday October 21 at 12.00-13.00 Staff meeting (bring your own lunch) in the Bunker/Öland.

week 44
DEADLINE
Before October 29 Produce idea map, course outline/structure for schedule to CEMUS Course Assembly 1 (instructions will be sent out before meeting). The idea map, course outline should be discussed with you course resource person before October 29.

EVERYBODY
Thursday October 29 at 9.15-12.00 CEMUS Course Assembly 1: workshop focused on course prototyping and course structure in Norrland I.

Idea map instructions
Produce the idea map in minimum A1 format (that’s four A3’s) and bring it printed/in paper to the workshop. Include course goals from syllabus, your ideas so far, the things you intend to keep from last year, guests, reading, examination, crazy outbursts, basically anything. The actual idea map has to be understandable for the other coordinators since they will be working on your course during the session. That’s it, have fun!

NOVEMBER 2015

week 45
EVERYBODY
Week 45 or 46 Work Group Meeting 1 with summary of last semesters course, creative input and some general decisions. Email course reports and other relevant material for the meeting one week in advance.

CEMUS STAFF
Wednesday November 4 at 12.00-13.00 Staff meeting (bring your own lunch) in the Bunker/Öland.

week 46
EVERYBODY
Week 45 or 46 Work Group Meeting 1 with summary of last semesters course, creative input and some general decisions. Email course reports and other relevant material for the meeting one week in advance.

EVERYBODY
Wednesday November 11 at 13.15-15.00 with Doreen Stabinsky: title to be announced.

week 47
CEMUS STAFF
Wednesday November 18 at 12.00-13.00 Staff meeting (bring your own lunch) in the Bunker/Öland.

week 48
DEADLINE
Before November 26 Produce idea map, examination and literature, to CEMUS Course Assembly 2 (instructions will be sent out before meeting). The material should be discussed with you course resource person before November 26.

EVERYBODY
Thursday November 26 at 9.15-12.00 CEMUS Course Assembly 2: workshop focused on literature and examination in ////.

DECEMBER 2015

week 49
EVERYBODY
Week 49 or 50 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 December 2 at 12.00-13.00 Staff meeting (bring your own lunch) in Norrland I.

DEADLINE
Wednesday December 2 at 13.15-15.00 Schedule with times and dates and guest and your own sessions should now be finished (not all guests have to be booked but decided on). Bring your unsolved mysteries and problem themes to Hamberg lecture hall. If everything is in order just email Daniel and your course resource person your schedule.

And some inspiration, if planning a course is like building a house, what is most important?

week 50
EVERYBODY
Week 49 or 50 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
Wednesday December 9 at 9.15-11.00 hosted by Friederike May with contributions from coordinators: Pedagogical theory and tools in Norrland I.

week 51
DEADLINE
Tuesday December 15 at 13.15-15.00 Deadline meeting on course books and course reader outline in Norrland I.

EVERYBODY
Wednesday December 16 at 10.00-later CEMUS Sustainability Winter Festival at Blåsenhus (day) and CEMUS (evening) www.sustainabilityfestival.se.

JANUARY

week 2
EVERYBODY
Tuesday January 12 at 13.15-15.00 with Colin Bryson and Ruth Furlong from The Combined Honours Centre, Newcastle University, http://www.ncl.ac.uk/combined/engagement/ and http://raise-network.ning.com/

week 3
EVERYBODY
Monday January 18

The Spring Semester 2016 starts!

Resources, Guidelines and Work Process