Change: Futures, Sci-Fi, Utopian & Dystopian Lit StudiesCritical Futures and CLADevelopment and Acceleration StudiesFutures, Sci-Fi, UtopianHorizon &Scanning Dystopianand LitCompetitive StudiesIntelligence*Ethics and Values StudiesForecasting and Modeling (basic)Images of the Future*Ethnographic FuturesHistory and Analysis of PredictionInnovation and Entrepreneurship Studies   View changes from previous version. (Word count: 3232)

Change:  and Organizational Devel.Probabilistic (Statistical) PredictionVisioning, Intuition, and CreativityLong-Range and Urban PlanningScience and Technology StudiesWeak Signals*Personal Futures/ Foresight Development*Sociology, Demographics and Social ChangeWildcardsPolitical Science and Policy StudiesSustainability StudiesPreferential Surveys / Polls, & Market ResearchSystems ThinkingSocially Responsible   View changes from previous version. (Word count: 3222)

Change: Evo DevoEvolution and Systems StudiesCritical and Evidence-Based ThinkingEthics and Values StudiesEvolution StudiesForecasting and Modeling (advanced)Futures, Sci-Fi, Utopian, and Dystopian Lit StudiesInnovation and Entrepreneurship Studies Integral Studies and ThinkingInvesting and Finance (Long-Term)Leadership StudiesLibrary Science, KM, and Decision SupportLong-Range and   View changes from previous version. (Word count: 3215)

Change:  by academics, and these are dependent on the frameworks that are in common. use.Our Terminologyterminology becomes community-validated when we can find our way to shared frameworks, which doesn't happen easily, particularly in newly formed, complex, and politically-sensitive domains like futures.Section I below features Foresight   View changes from previous version. (Word count: 3216)

Change:  Futures SkillsPreferable Futures SkillsProbable Futures SkillsAlternative FuturesCognitive and Positive PsychologyActuarial Science, Risk Assessment, InsuranceEmerging Issues / Technology Analysis*Collaboration, Facilitation & Peace/Conflict StudiesCross Impact and Pattern AnalysisEnvironmental / Horizon Scanning*Complexity, Evo Devo and Systems StudiesCritical and Evidence-Based ThinkingEvolution Studies   View changes from previous version. (Word count: 3198)

Change: three students are presently enrolled in the MSF. [Updated: 5/25/2008] Swinburne U of Tech - Foresight Education Framework To be acquired.Tamkang U / Graduate Institute of Futures Studies - Foresight Education Framework To be acquired.Turku School of Economics /Finland Futures Academy- Foresight Education FrameworkTo   View changes from previous version. (Word count: 3220)

Change: practice formsCalculationManipulating numbers correctly to support inferencesGroup ProcessFacilitating, working with and leading others in effective group workFutures Skills (4)Skills of a person doing professional futures work Current Assessment Awareness and understanding of the current and future conditions of a topic-   View changes from previous version. (Word count: 3226)

Change: , an interdenominational Christian university, is under its School of Global Leadership & Entrepreneurship. The MSF empowers mid-career leaders, average age 40 years old, to help their organizations adapt to changing   View changes from previous version. (Word count: 3223)

Change: isfeatures Foresight Education Frameworks (learning objectives) for methods and theory which are taught in various futures educational programs around the world today. Each can be considered competing yet complementary ways to educate FS students. Section II below providesgives examples of the more numerous Foresight Practice Frameworks (skills   View changes from previous version. (Word count: 2682)

Change: Renamed from Futures Studies Frameworks by JohnMSmart Jul 18 2008, 3:32 PM EDT for: Rename