CBMC Future Foresight
Overview
The Future Foresight Micro-Credential is designed to equip professionals, managers, policymakers, and organizational leaders with the knowledge and practical skills required to anticipate emerging trends, navigate uncertainty, and develop sustainable future-oriented strategies. The program provides a comprehensive understanding of future foresight methodologies, scenario planning techniques, and strategic planning frameworks that support evidence-based decision-making and organizational transformation.
The program combines theoretical foundations with practical applications, enabling learners to create strategic foresight frameworks, evaluate alternative future scenarios, and formulate actionable plans that promote resilience, innovation, and sustainable development across public and private sector organizations.
Three courses are selected from the Master’s program, each carrying 3 credit hours and structured into three modules with a small project, totaling 9 credit hours for the program.
The Professional Training Certification is based on one or more modules, which may be taken from the micro-credential courses.Typical Job Titles
| Head of Strategic Futures & Policy | Senior Foresight Advisor |
| Director of Future Intelligence | Global Foresight Lead |
| Policy Foresight Advisor | Government Foresight Consultant |
| Strategic Foresight Analyst | Foresight & Scenario Planning Specialist |
Program Goals
The Future Foresight Micro-Credential aims to:
- Develop participants' understanding of future foresight concepts, methodologies, and tools used to anticipate and prepare for emerging opportunities and challenges.
- Enhance participants' ability to analyze trends, drivers of change, uncertainties, and disruptions that may influence organizational and societal futures.
- Equip participants with advanced scenario planning techniques to evaluate multiple plausible futures and support strategic decision-making.
- Enable participants to formulate organizational future foresight frameworks that align strategic objectives with long-term sustainability and innovation goals.
- Promote the development of innovative and sustainable future strategies that contribute to institutional excellence, societal well-being, and national development priorities.
- Provide hands-on experience through applied projects that integrate future foresight methodologies with strategic planning practices to address real-world organizational challenges.
Stacking possibilities to progress from one certification to the next
Participants starting with the Professional Training Certification can potentially stack modules based on the modules to course mapping to complete higher-level certifications as follows:
Completing a Credit Bearing Micro Credential course:
- A single Micro Credential course consists of 3 modules and a project.
- Participants can take individual modules through the Professional Training Certification.
- By completing all 3 modules of a specific course and the associated small project, they would effectively complete the equivalent of one Credit Bearing Micro-Credential course.
Completing the Credit Bearing Micro-Credential Certification:
- The Credit Bearing Micro-Credential Certification requires completion of 3 courses.
- Participants would need to stack modules to complete 3 full courses (9 modules + 3 projects in total).
- This would involve taking 9 individual modules through the Professional Training Certification, plus completing the 3 associated projects.
Progressing towards the Masters of Science:
- The Masters program consists of 9 courses plus a thesis.
- Participants could potentially complete up to 3 courses from the professional training certification or credit-bearing micro-credential program.
- However, to fully complete the Masters, they would still need to complete 6 courses and the thesis component, which requires formal enrollment in the Masters program.
Learning Outcomes
PLO 1: Formulate an organizational strategic future foresight framework
PLO 2: Evaluate the role of scenario planning in an organization and explain its relation to strategic planning, forecasting, extrapolation and other processes.
PLO 3: Design and develop innovative strategic foresight plans for institutional change that will lead to the development of sustainable futures
Admission Criteria
Enrolment in this Credit Bearing Micro-Credential program is open to all prospective students. This program is specifically tailored for individuals seeking to obtain comprehensive and rigorous education in the field of Future Foresight while maintaining their current employment, all while ensuring the highest level of quality. The required documents for the admission for the Credit Bearing Micro-Credential in Future Foresight program are the following:
- Passport Copy
- Emirates ID (only for UAE residents)
- Bachelor Degree (Diploma & Transcript)
- English Languages test (IELTS=6.0 Overall score or TOEFL IBT 79 or TOEFL PBT 550)
- One letter of recommendation
- CV
GPA Requirements
Cumulative GPA (CGPA) of 3.0 (on a 4.0 scale or its established equivalent) in the applicant’s BS degree program. In addition, the Credit Bearing Micro-Credential may consider conditional admission (see sections below on Conditional Admission and Mature Entry Admissions).
English Proficiency Requirements
Students must achieve the minimum scores in standardized English exams. A minimum IELTS academic score of 6.0 or the equivalent of another standardized test is required of all students admitted to the Credit Bearing Micro-Credential. The program may consider on a case-by-case-based conditional admission (see section below on Conditional Admission). Students who have completed their undergraduate education in an English-medium institution might be allowed admission into a graduate program at RIT Dubai without providing an IELTS academic score of 6.0 or equivalent. This exemption applies only to the students who have completed their schooling(K-12) and bachelor degree in English medium in a reference English-speaking country such as UK, USA, Australia or New Zealand.
Conditional Admission
A student with a CGPA of 2.5 or higher and an IELTS academic score of 5.5 or equivalent (using a standardized test approved by Ministry of Education) may be admitted to a Credit Bearing Micro-Credential.
Mature Entry Admissions
RIT Dubai may in some programs admit mature students who do not meet the minimum conditional admission CGPA requirement of 2.5 (but do have an above 2.0 CGPA) provided he/she passes the admission committee interview and the standard English test requirements. Related work experience can support a student's application. These students must also be aware that extra remedial courses maybe required if they eventually intend to stack their micro credential towards the full Masters program.
Program Learning Outcomes
- PLO 1: Formulate an organizational strategic future foresight framework.
- PLO 2: Evaluate the role of scenario planning in an organization and explain its relation to strategic planning, forecasting, extrapolation and other processes.
- PLO 3: Design and develop innovative strategic foresight plans for institutional change that will lead to the development of sustainable futures.
