Course syllabus for Leadership and personal development

The course is organized around four independent but interrelated parts (1) guest lectures, (2 ) mandatory literature, (3) exercises and (4) an own work that is and presented orally and in writing. The four parts are briefly described below:

Guest Lectures: Guest lectures cover different parts of the topics that are described under the heading of learning outcomes, including leadership, creativity, project leading, stress management, conflict resolution, mental training, positive psychology and different aspects of the engineer's professional role.

Mandatory literature: The required reading deals with the same topics as the guest lectures, but otherwise it has no direct link to these. The required reading is intended primarily for self-study.

Exercises: Group exercises consists among other things of workshops (which deals with various topics in the course), exercises in presentation skills and mini-lectures in selected topics.

Own work:  Each student will choose a theme to be individually studied and reported both orally and in writing. This work includes typical to read one additional book on the chosen theme and to seek additional information on the topic on various websites. The oral presentations are made for the other students in the group. Examples of themes that can be selected within one's own work is: rhetoric, stress management, intercultural communication, positive psychology, self-esteem, mental training, creativity, various aspects of the brain, leadership (different aspects), coaching, personal effectiveness , career planning, study skills, mindfulness, cognitive science, etc. The theme as well as the books that are chosen for the own work must be approved by the teacher.