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This course focuses on the application of Systems ideas and practitioner skill development across disciplines. Readings and diversified class sessions explore topics including the meaning of “holistic” and “system,” multiple levels of analysis, multiple perspectives, learning organizations, frameworks/processes for problem-solving, and use of tools like graphic representations, group processes, modeling, and causal-loop diagramming. A facilitated and collaborative learning environmental encourages students to take ownership of their own learning experience.
This course was formerly named “Systems Approach,” and essentially the course is about developing students’ understanding of what it means to take a systems approach, ie. employ a holistic strategy, and empowering them with tools that can be employed across a wide range of problems. The challenge starts with how one defines a problem and gets even more interesting from there...
Prerequisites: Graduate standing, or upper-division standing and completion of one SySc cluster course. Or, permission of the instructor.