Copenhagen School of Design and Technology

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Specialisation: Communication Design and Media - Trend and Sociology

2021/2022
Speciality direction: Communication Design & Media
Danish title
Studieretning Trend og Kommunikation (Communication Design and Media) - Lokalt fagelement (Trend og Sociologi) (DA)
Study programme
Design & business
Type of education
Full time education
Level of education
Bachelor (top-up)
Duration of the subject/module
2 semestre
Ects
5
Programme elements
Compulsory
Language
Danish and English
Start time
Autumn
Location
Guldbergsgade 29 N, København N
Subject number
9944430
Responsible for the subject(s)/modul(es)
Rasmus Rahbek Simonsen
Helene Niclasen Jeune
Trine Bekkersgaard Stark
Stine Behrendtzen
  • Purpose and learning objectives

    The subject element emphasises the design-ethnographic methods with the aim of understanding a specific user group. In addition, focus is on uncovering relevant trends and tendencies to help students optimise solutions for various industry players.

    Knowledge

    The student will gain knowledge about:
    ● theory, methods and practice in design, innovation and media strategy as well as how to identify and account for these.
    ● how to formulate and reflect on theories, methods and practice in design, innovation and media strategy.

    Skills

    The student will get the skills to:
    • look into social trends and future scenarios that challenge the company in the long term and force the company to be in a state of transition and to think in terms of new solution scenarios.
    • detect, compare and mange trends and phenomena in relation to trends and social theory in a historical and user-orientated context.

    Competences

    The student will get the skills to:
    • prepare written and oral future analytical presentations based on ideological, cultural and theoretical analyses.
    ● handle and discuss development-orientated tasks in design and idea generation.
    ● apply and defend anthropological methods for collecting relevant data and communicate complex professional issues, also across cultures, in a well-argued and well-documented way.

  • Type of instruction
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  • Exam

    The learning outcomes of the exam are identical with the learning outcomes of the subject(s)/modul(es)

    Exam in one or more subjects
    Subject/module is tested with the following modules
    Type of exam
    Combined written and oral examination
    Individual exam or group exam
    Individual
    Exam languages
    Danish(Norwegian/Swedish)
    Type of evaluation
    7-point grading scale
    Examiners
    Internal and External censure
41
hours of teaching
96
hours of preparation
The figure shows the extent of workload related to the subject divided into different study activities.

In the subject Specialisation: Communication Design and Media - Trend and Sociology you will receive 41 hours of instruction, which corresponds to 55 lessons (1 lesson = 45 min.) and 30% of your total workload for the subject.

The teaching primarily consists of the following activities: classroom teaching.
The preparation primarily consists of the following activities: reading the curriculum.

Read about KEAs Study Activity Model

*KEA can deviate from the number of hours if this is justified by special circumstances