The
Corvinus University of Budapest offer several futures studies courses at
undergraduate and postgraduate levels. The courses are offered per semester
with four sessions per week.
Courses
Futures studies (undergraduate) - since 199; 230 students/semester
The future – as the
topic of scientific discourses; future orientation of
human beings;
transition in the world and in the science; methodology and
methods of futures
studies (mathematical-statistical methods, expert
methods, models,
scenario-building), renewal of futures studies methods;
reliability and
verification of forecasts.
Erzsébet
Nováky, DSc
Tamás Gáspár, PhD
Tamás Kristóf, MSc
Réka Várnagy,
student-demonstrator
Social forecasts (graduate and postgraduate) – since 1996, 2000; 10
students/semester, 30 students/semester
Different meaning of socials forecasts and its history, new trends in
futures studies: evolutionary and critical futures studies, futures models of
postindustrial society, the possible futures of the welfare state, different forecasts for the Hungarian social systems:
demographic transition, pension reform, renewing the vocational education,
instability of social indicators and their possible impact to the future,
future orientation of everyday people in
Éva Hideg, PhD
Social-economic forecasts (graduate) - Since 1996; 90 students/semester
Interpretation of social and
economic forecasts; future social and
economic models; forecasts:
demographic, pension reform, vocational
training; future orientation of
Hungarian enterprises/entrepreneurs;
macroeconomic forecasts in
ecology – models and
model-systems;
Erzsébet Nováky, DSc and Éva Hideg, PhD
Education
and the future (graduate) - Since 2000; 90 students/semester
The course examines the future of education and vocational
training; strategies for education in several countries; interconnection
between future orientation and the future of education and vocational training;
future alternatives for
education and vocational training in
Erzésbet Nováky, DSc and Éva Hideg, PhD
Social
forecasts (graduate)
Different meaning of socials
forecasts and its history, new trends in futures studies: evolutionary and
critical futures studies, futures models of postindustrial society, the
possible futures of the welfare state, different forecasts for
the Hungarian social systems: demographic transition, pension reform, renewing
the vocational education, instability of social indicators and their possible
impact to the future, future orientation of everyday people in Hungary, the
interconnection between the personal future orientation and the future of the
Hungarian society
Éva Hideg, PhD
Economic
forecasts (postgraduate)
The place of economic forecasts in economics and decision-making; future
oreintation of Hungarian enterprises/entrepreneurs; forecasts of tendencies,
turning points, economic cycles, interconnections and states; chaos theory and
futures studies; Hungary – 2000-2005; Hungary – beyond tomorrow; futures
orientation and scenario-building.
Erzsébet Nováky, DSc
Future oriented economics
(undergraduate, graduate) - Since 2000; 60 students/semester
Future orientation and economic mechanisms; basic economic problems (scarcity,
rationality, economic factors etc.) in the information age; market, strategic
planning and future; political economy as cultural-social visions executed in
the economy; economic methodology and forecast; strategic consumption and
production; public goods and information age; future oriented economic policy;
schools of thoughts and visions of times; macroeconomic problems in a social
context; foreign economic visions and international economics; world economy in
and beyond the information age
Tamás Gáspár, PhD
World economic fields and visions –
the myth of information futures (graduate) - Since 2002; 60 students/semester
The course examines futures of the cultural world economy and its regions. The interpretation of
fields in economic strategy. Behaviour and the future orientation of
individuals, entrepreneurs and their influence. Economic policy strategies for the 21st century. Landmarks in
the world economy (changes and influences on EU fields). Regional and
subregional visions for the future. The impact of different information society
models on East-Central Europe and
Tamás Gáspár, PhD
Contact
Corvinus University of Budapest
F?vám tér 8.
1828 Bp
+36 1 216 20 16
Web
http://www.bkae.hu/jkut
