Strategic foresight is a methodological approach to studying and creatively depicting multiple possible future scenarios. It enables organizations and governments to anticipate disruptive change, inform present-day decision-making, and adopt long-term strategies that build resilience and proactively shape preferred futures, rather than react to external change. Strategic foresight leverages systematic analysis of signals and trends, identification of key drivers of change, scenario planning, implications analysis, and integration of insights into organizational or policy contexts.
This course emphasizes project-based learning, collaboration, and critical reflection. Through lectures and workshops, students will learn processes and methods of strategic foresight as a systematic approach to developing future scenarios for a domain or topic of interest and exploring their implications. This systematic methodology will then be applied to a future analysis project. Emphasis is placed on documenting the research process, iterative thinking, and presenting insights from scenario planning to various audiences.
*Meet with URP 610-003
