200 year present

Aging

Alternative futures as a concept

Alternatives, preferred futures, critical thinking

An introduction to the philosophical foundations of good FR/SF.  They need to understand that good work must rest on a constructivist view of the world and what it implies for our role as the co-creators of social realities, as persons and communities.  It also entails that what is most important is the evolving shape, logic and content of human consciousness and how it becomes embedded in the world (and the reverse).  Many professionals do not yet get this yet and it shows in their work and harms the field.

Asking the right questions

Basic research as a prerequisite to understanding the present

Being aware of internal bias and filters in dealing with time

Biotechnology

Bounded present

Building scenarios - step-by-step

Business and Organizational Foresight

Career and Personal Foresight

Climate change & responses

Communication and Understanding across all Boundaries

Complex adaptive systems (CAS)

Complexity & Complexity Thinking

Conscious v Unconscious approaches to dealing with the future

Creating the future

Creative Thinking

Creativity

Dator's laws

Demographics

Demographics and Psychographics

Does one need to view only their personal future

Driving forces and trends.

Economics, including manufacturing (by robots and self assembling nano); with fairness & justice

Energy

Epistemology

Ethical aspects and responsibility of the futurist

Ethical dimensions and responsibility of the futurist

Exercises that use the above by applying methods that nurture deeper perceptions, clearer thinking, systems thinking and the evolution of phenomena over time,

Explorers of the Future (Cornish)

Food

Forces, driving forces and trendlines

Foresight (social and technology as a minimum)

Foresight as a Person in an Institution "How do I think about HOW I want to contribute to the achievement of Communities I chose to belong to?"

Foresight as an everyday skill

Framing and Creating the Future

From Insight to Action (Johansen)

Fundamentals of creative thinking.

Future is about change. Only action can bring about desirable change.

Future of (and trends/history of) religions

Futures Studies - History and Current Practice

Genetics

Global

Global and Social Foresight

Global issues for the future

Global power shifts

Global Warming

Health

History of Forecasting

History of Future Studies

History of futures studies and possible future of FS

How broad should one look to view the future

How to evaluate the quality of information

Identifying, understanding and managing change

Images of the future

Importance of space and time dimension

Individual through global futuring.

Innovation

Innovation economy & IT

Introduction to Futures -- what is it? Why is it important?

Introductory: futures thinking, philosophy, complexity and 'new' sciences

Inventing the Future / Improving our Futures (Cornish)

Invention

Issues...what they are, how they develop, how to stay in touch with issues, and how to raise them.

Knowing the Score (Naisbitt)

Leadership that is capable of staying in touch with the environment and constantly creating a future.

Limitations of Futuristics

Listening, Scanning, and Research, including Media Literacy.

Local, Regional, and National Needs

Locus of Employ of Forecasting - What Organizations use It, and Why?

Most Consequential Forecasts throughout History

Multiple futures

Nanotechnology

Nanotechnology and scenarios of successful and unsuccessful applications

Overview of Future Studies: history of discipline, current topics, case examples, indications of topics for further research, futurists profiles, etc.

Past+Present+Future : on building scenarios

Personal Foresight - Foresight is a Life Skill  "How do I think about family, spiritual, career and eleemosynary Futures?)

Personal Futures

Personal Paradigm Shift

Philosophical conceptions of time, being-in-the world, the role of knowledge, tradition/disruption, choice/consequence ; Greek ideas of mimesis, enkyklios paideia, ethics, politics, aesthetics, etc

Pick a set of problems- global warming,  sustainability, economic development and the readings underneath these

Political conceptions of place, rights, group, power, local/global players, citizenship, conflict resolution, role of State, governance, etc.

Problem Solving

Professional Futures Studies

Project - A personal preferred future and a preferred future as a member of an identified community or institution.

Relationships between Philosophy and Politics: History, Geopolitical Affairs, Human Condition, Media, Culture, with interest in the idea of 'Future' at a first intuitive level

Rhetoric as a subject and as a tool

Root-Cause Analysis

Scenario building

Science and Technology Foresight ("The Big Picture")

Sources -- websites, etc. for students wanting to gather trends information

Spiral dynamics or similar look at and forecast of societal evolution

Super Ordinate Goals - "Let's put a man on the moon by the end of the decade, and return him safely."

Sustainability (environmental, social, economic and business)

Systems thinking

Systems, Chance, and Chaos (Cornish)

Technological change

Technology and the Future

The basics of planning and its connection to futures work

The cultural constructs of futures work (Nth Am/tech predictive) Euro (socially constructed) Others

The Environment

The forces on you (DEGEST)

The forces you can exert ("green")

The Foundations of Future Consciousness

The importance of space and time dimensions

The need of careful analysis of the present hence interdisciplinary approach at least in the use of social sciences

The need to detect major trends and major actors

The reality of cultural frames of reference, their emergence, evolution and death.  The point is to help students see that the really BIG question about their future is not most of the stuff pop culture thinks of as "futures" -- scanning for technology trends, etc -- but the question of "what cultural frame of reference is truly sutainable under the emerging conditions of the 21st Century?"  This is the elephant in the room of futures work and few ask it.

The role of futures in strategic planning and strategic thinking