13632 (v.4) Soft Systems Thinking 506

Area:

Graduate School of Business

Credits:

25.0

Contact Hours:

15.0

** The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline. **

Lecture:

1 x 15 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 the theoretical background as well as the opportunity for practical application toa project of their choice. With the objective of bringing about agreement on 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.

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Field of Education:

080300 Business and Management (Narrow Grouping)

Funding Cluster:

02 - Accounting, Administration, Economics, Commerce

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
2006	Perth City Campus	Study Period 3	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