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OSR 521 - Systems - Dynamics of Social Systems

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This course builds on applied systems thinking and explores complexity theory by offering multi-sensory opportunities to see, talk about and work with systems. Rather than viewing change as something that can be planned and controlled, complexity theory tells us that change is unpredictable and uncontrollable. A leader, change agent, or intervener must develop new skills to see how a complex system is trying to emerge into a new whole. Students explore how to design and create the conditions for a social system to self-organize to a new and higher level of functioning by “coming along side” the emerging system to midwife it into this higher state of complexity and functionality. Required.

Academic Level: Graduate
Instructional Method: Lecture
School: College of Arts & Sciences


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