Science and Technology Communication in Theory and Practice
Course content
This highly interactive summer school offers students from all disciplines the opportunity to gain skills in the understanding and production of research communication and in interdisciplinary, problem-oriented collaboration. Students will work together to produce high quality science communication products such as short films, podcasts, articles and complementary social media. Project groups will be interdisciplinary, giving students the chance to gain hands-on experience of research and development across disciplinary boundaries.
The two week intensive summer school will be supported by a four week, part-time (25 hours per week) programme of online teaching, readings, and short tasks which will enable students to become familiar with the theory and practice of public science communication. They will engage with topics such as the history of science communication, the narrative techniques and formats through which it can be carried out, and how key messages can be conveyed clearly, accurately and memorably.
By participating actively in this course, you will acquire the following knowledge, skills and competencies:
Knowledge
You will be able to account for key methods and theories in the study of science communication, including models of communication, scientific knowledge, audience reception, and analytical frames.
Skills
You will be able to create science communication products which utilise specific formats to communicate scientific knowledge to defined audiences.
Competencies
You will be able to critically examine instances of science communication by drawing on appropriate theories and methods in the field.
You will be able to communicate such assessment and analysis with precision and in terms relevant to the academic debate in the field.
Lectures, online exercises, group work, and practical workshops.
Students will engage with texts introducing the theory and methods of public science communication, as well as with instances of written (and other) communication. The course content will use a set of real world case studies, including climate change and emerging biotechnology, and readings will also include examples and analyses of these.
Academic qualifications equivalent to a BSc degree is recommended.
This course is identical to the discontinued course NNDK16002U Science Communication in Theory and Practice.
During the online part of the course, participants give each other written peer feedback.
Other forms of feedback during the face to face part of the course:
- Individual and collective oral feedback from the teacher and peers
- Oral peer feedback during group work
- Collective oral feedback from the teacher during supervision of group work
- Oral feedback from teacher and peers following participants’ presentation of their final product
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The application deadline is in Spring. Subject to availability, there may be a second deadline 1 June. More information about this will be available on www.ind.ku.dk/sci-comm.
- ECTS
- 7,5 ECTS
- Type of assessment
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Written assignment
- Type of assessment details
- Take-home assignment consisting of four small exercises posted during the on-line part of the course and a reflection project to be completed during or after the on-campus part of the course. All five parts of the assignment must be handed in on a specific date in August. The assignment will be assessed as a collected whole.
- Examination prerequisites
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To be registred for the exam each participant must:
- Actively participate in and attend the on-campus part of the course (80% attendance).
- Participate actively in the production of a communication product.
- Aid
- All aids allowed except Generative AI
- Marking scale
- passed/not passed
- Censorship form
- No external censorship
2 internal examiners
- Re-exam
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Same as ordinary exam.
Students who have not fulfilled the exam registration requirements can qualify for the re exam by handing in a written assignment covering those parts of the course they missed no later than three weeks before the reexam week.
It is the participant's responsibility to contact the course coordinator no later than six weeks before the re exam date to organise the scope and format of the written assignment.
Criteria for exam assessment
The students will be assessed according to whether they describe:
- how they developed their science communication product;
- why they made particular choices about its content and structure;
- how those choices relate to science communication theory covered in the online course.
Single subject courses (day)
- Category
- Hours
- Class Instruction
- 80
- Preparation
- 100
- Exam
- 26
- English
- 206
Kursusinformation
- Language
- English
- Course number
- NNDK23005U
- ECTS
- 7,5 ECTS
- Programme level
- Full Degree Master
- Placement
- Summer
- Price
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For information on tuition fees, please visit the website: www.ind.ku.dk/sci-comm.
Information on living costs and costs of accomodation is available at the UCPH website for international students: http:\\studies.ku.dk/welcome/ - Schedulegroup
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Exact dates will be announced later
- Capacity
- 40
The number of places might be reduced if you register in the late-registration period (BSc and MSc) or as a credit or single subject student. - Studyboard
- Study Board of Mathematics and Computer Science
Contracting department
- Department of Science Education
- Department of Public Health
Contracting faculty
- Faculty of Science
Course Coordinator
- Marianne Achiam (6-64666b6c6470436c7167316e7831676e)
Teacher
Louise Emma Whiteley
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