FEO3110 Vetenskapskommunikation 5,0 hp

The following elements are included:

• Popular science

The task of journalism is to describe and examine the world, and in so doing make it comprehensible to ordinary people. How is this done? From first thoughts to finished article? What can a researcher learn from the way a scientific journalist works? This course is aimed at training students' abilities to identify and detach the most important message and to present it in a manner that is tasteful, correct and interesting to the reader.

• Information

Communicating science to different target groups is trained via various exercises. What role does communication play within universities, government agencies and in business? How are external communications managed? Who are the recipients?

• Exercises

Practical exercises in communicating popular science to different target groups are included in allcourse elements, e.g. monitoring and writing about the Nobel presentation of a Nobel Laureate.

The aim of the course is to train participants' abilities to discern the most important message and to present it to readers as tastefully, accurately and interestingly as possible.

• Identifying different forms of popular scientific communication.

• Considerable amounts of practical training with feedback from professionals.

• Providing opportunities for personal reflection in meetings with colleagues in the same situation.

• Using the doctoral students' own research as working material - participants are expected to provide theirown research resultsto communicate.

Doctoral students and post docs at the School of Electrical Engineering. The course will be held in English, however written assignments may be submitted in Swedish or English.

Doctoral students and post docs at the School of Electrical Engineering.

A Field Guide for Science Writers: The Official Guide of the National Association of Science Writers, Deborah Blum, Mary Knudson, Robin Marantz Henig

The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing, Richard Dawkins

När kurs inte längre ges har student möjlighet att examineras under ytterligare två läsår.

Examinator beslutar, baserat på rekommendation från KTH:s handläggare av stöd till studenter med funktionsnedsättning, om eventuell anpassad examination för studenter med dokumenterad, varaktig funktionsnedsättning.

Examinator får medge annan examinationsform vid omexamination av enstaka studenter.

Active participation and 100 per cent presence, completed individual and group assignments and finally a popular science text on student's own research.

Mikael Skoglund

• Vid grupparbete har alla i gruppen ansvar för gruppens arbete.
• Vid examination ska varje student ärligt redovisa hjälp som erhållits och källor som använts.
• Vid muntlig examination ska varje student kunna redogöra för hela uppgiften och hela lösningen.