SBUS30240 Lessons from Nobel: Intercultural Leadership for Global Challenges

Academic Year 2024/2025

This 5 ECTS module will enhance students’ professional, personal and intercultural competence development by engaging in culturally-relevant, ethical, and reciprocally-beneficial activities in relation to the local context. Together with peers from across the world, selected students will confront some of the most urgent issues facing humankind. Through a unique project-based learning opportunity designed to develop intercultural skills and achieve academic, personal, and professional growth, students will participate in an online course with an embedded, week-long field study in Sweden, capped off by an immersive experience at the Nobel Prize Museum and Nobel Dialogue. Students will be exposed to a unique constellation of Nobel Laureates, world- leading scientists, policymakers, thought leaders, and Nobel Prize Museum leadership to discuss global issues that concern us all. They will also have the opportunity to have their work displayed at the Nobel Prize Museum at the completion of the course. This upper-level course includes both graduate (master) and undergraduate students.

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Curricular information is subject to change

Learning Outcomes:

- To enhance learners’ professional, personal and intercultural competence development
- To inspire the next generation of global leaders to seek out knowledges to question current norms and systems
- To work interculturally to pursue ideas that identify and confront equity and justice concerns in their communities and around the world.
- To provide a means to deepen and expand learners’ own understanding of themselves in the world

Indicative Module Content:

- Practice critical self-reflection and self-awareness related to personal experience, strengths, and values.
- Articulate own cultural identities in relation to those of others on the program and in country.
- Practice inquiry, critical thinking and problem solving independently and collaboratively
- Model curiosity and empathy (wonder) in interpersonal relationships, problem-solving, and research.
- Relate interculturally to others in the group, and those they interact with onsite, in ways that demonstrate empathy, humility, and authentic caring.
- Design solutions to equity and justice issues that apply varied sources of knowledge and respect for diverse experiences and realities.
- Synthesize course learning through a final project and reflection paper

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This interdisciplinary programme combines an online project-based workshops and group tasks, an international field study in Sweden, and attendance at the 2021 Nobel Week Dialogue.

It is dedicated to bringing together a select
group of students from diverse backgrounds as Future leaders from all over the world, similarly committed to the principles of dialogue and addressing global challenges, for a shared, expansive and prestigious student experience.

The focus of the learning is further building your collaborative, communicative and changemaker skills.

Class meetings will take place online during Autumn 2021 to a notified schedule, in preparation for travel to Stockholm and Gothenburg, Sweden from December 5-11, 2021 to attend the Nobel Week Dialogue.
 
Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations

Not applicable to this module.


Module Requisites and Incompatibles
Not applicable to this module.
 
Assessment Strategy  
Description Timing Open Book Exam Component Scale Must Pass Component % of Final Grade

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Carry forward of passed components
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Resit In Terminal Exam
Spring No
Please see Student Jargon Buster for more information about remediation types and timing. 
Feedback Strategy/Strategies

• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment

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