IND300 Experts in Teamwork

The course is primarily a groupproject with supervision, where students will work with a multidisciplinary issue. Relevant issues in the course is taken from society and working life. In addition to the workshops there will be 3-4 lectures on the topic of cooperative skills. An important part of the groupwork is to optain an awareness in relation to orientation, assessment, overall, and cooperation phase, where emphases will be put on communication, problem solving, decision making and conflict management. Students will through this groupwork get training in listening, asking questions, talking about unpleasant topics, personal conflicts, professional disagreement, giving and receiving feedback, and training to improve response patterns. Collaboration competence will be developed through joint reflection on the group cooperation, and by giving each other constructive feedback.

Students will after completing the course have knowledge about communication and cooperation forms that enables them to work with interdisciplinary issues. This means that they can convey their own competence in interdisciplinary cooperation, as well as applying their own and others' expertise to find the best overall solution for the project. Furthermore, they should be able to analyze and reflect on their own and others' role and contribution in the project and apply the basic concepts and methods from relevant disciplines.