Education of KTI

Within the KTI group, our aim is to provide high quality social science education to both social and natural science students. KTI focuses on proposing socially inclusive and sustainable development pathways for wide range of stakeholders, such as local communities, governments, industry and civil society. Besides the programmes we teach in, we also offer possibilities to do a bachelor, master thesis or internship.

Our vision for education


KTI aims to create an inspiring educational environment, which enables a diversity of students to become culturally sensitive, reflexive and responsible change makers. In KTI courses, students learn to critically question historically developed hierarchies, structures, dominant narratives and practices associated with science and technology in society. Through interactive and transdisciplinary methods, we equip students to cultivate their own agency to enact socio-technical transformation in engagement with practitioners from various fields, including historically marginalized voices. In doing so, we nurture critical and reflexive students whose curiosity and care can confront the serious challenges of the world.

For whom

KTI welcomes students from a broad range of study domains. On the one hand, we train social science students to engage with the life science domain and to critically intervene in processes of socio-technical innovation and transformation. On the other hand, we also train life science students to incorporate insights from the social sciences and to develop interdisciplinary expertise in the development of responsible science, technology, and innovation.

Courses

KTI provides a wide range of courses. The table below presents a list of all courses that are (co-) provided by the KTI group. For more information on the contents and the schedule, we refer to the Study Handbook and the scheduling site, or simply follow the course links below.

Course code Course title
CPT 11806 Technology Development and Natural Resources
CPT 17306 Communication, Innovation and Social Change
CPT 22806 Innovation and Transformation
CPT 26306 Cross-cultural studies
CPT 28806 Introduction to Communication and Technology in Rural Innovation and Development
CPT 30806 Social Justice Technology and Development
CPT 33806 Advanced Communication Science
CPT 35806 Intercultural Communication
CPT 36806 Critical Reflection on Research in International Development Practice
CPT 37306 Politics of Knowledge and Inclusive Innovation
CPT 37806 Researching Practices, Innovation and Futures
CPT 38006 Science Communication 2.0: Dialogue and Transdisciplinarity
CPT 39806 African Philosophy
CPT 60306 Facilitating Interactive Processes

KTI contributes to the following BSc and MSc programs: