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Courses Handbook 2011

This handbook contains information for courses and units at Curtin in 2011.
Information for current year courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2010.

13632 (v.4) Soft Systems Thinking 506

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Tutition Patterns

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Unit references, texts and outcomes

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Area: Curtin Graduate School of Business
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 3.0
Lecture: 1 x 3 Hours Weekly
Syllabus: This unit focuses on systems thinking in a futures context. As a methodology soft systems thinking can be applied to a range of circumstances and this unit gives students a theoretical background as well as the opportunity for practical application to a project of their choice. With the objective of bringing about agreement as a way forward out of a problematic situation students will be instructed in a set of techniques that lead to learning more about a situation through using conceptual thinking, modelling and discussion.
Field of Education: 080300 Business and Management (Narrow Grouping)
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Informational
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2011 Perth City Campus Study Period 9 Y        

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External