HEN572 Facilitation of Environmental Communication Processes

Faculty of Social Studies
Autumn 2010
Extent and Intensity
0/0. 8 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
Jan Haverkamp (lecturer)
Ing. Zbyněk Ulčák, Ph.D. (assistant)
Guaranteed by
Ing. Zbyněk Ulčák, Ph.D.
Department of Environmental Studies – Faculty of Social Studies
Contact Person: Ivona Tolarová
Timetable
Fri 26. 11. 10:00–17:40 U43, Fri 10. 12. 10:00–17:40 U43
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 35 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/35, only registered: 0/35, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/35
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
This seminar will investigate how environmental communication processes like stakeholders meetings, environmental impact assessments, environmental education processes, environmental political debates can be facilitated. It will look into different possibilities of programming communication about environment, the "why"s and it will give students the chance to investigate and train their own facilitation skills.
Goals
- Participants know what facilitation is
- Participants understand the complexity of process dynamics
- Participants can programme simple environmental communication processes
- Participants know basic technical tools in facilitation
- Participants can facilitate in simple communication settings
Syllabus
  • PROGRAMME
  • Introduction and basis
  • - Introduction in the way this seminar will be run
  • - communication processes, environmental communication processes, facilitation
  • Programming environmental communication processes
  • - elements of a good programme
  • - programming formats and ideas
  • Role of the facilitator and facilitation skills I
  • Role of the facilitator and facilitation skills II
  • Analysis of an environmental communication process and wrap-up
  • EXAM
  • The exam will test facilitation skills and programming an environmental communication process case
Literature
  • SCHWARZ, Roger M. The skilled facilitator fieldbook : tips, tools, and tested methods for consultants, facilitators, managers, trainers, and coaches. 1st ed. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 2005, xxiv, 546. ISBN 0787964948. URL info
  • ARNOLD, Rick. Educating for a change. Toronto: Doris Marshall Institute for Education and Action, 1991, 206 s. ISBN 0921284489. info
Teaching methods
4 interactive participative full day sessions
1 interactive exam
Assessment methods
Two full days, 10:00 - 17:30 on Friday 26 and Saturday 27 November 2010.
Two full days, 10:00 - 17:30 on Friday 10 and Saturday 11 December 2010.

Exam: in January or February.

Students are expected to attend all blocks, as facilitation is not something that can be learned from books, but only by interaction.
The methods used will be highly interactive and participative. The seminar blocks will not exist of lectures, but of interactive group work. Also students need to count with intensive homework between the seminar sessions.
The complete seminar will take place in English.
The course will be examined orally on the basis of the work done during the blocks and background literature.
Language of instruction
English
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught each semester.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2003, Autumn 2004, Autumn 2005, Autumn 2006, Autumn 2007, Autumn 2008, Autumn 2009, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2016, Autumn 2018.
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