Collab Inquiry/Syst Thinking

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Collaborative Inquiry through Systems Thinking (3) In this course about systems thinking and change, students build knowledge of key frameworks and apply it to cases and their personal contexts: themselves, work organizations, and doctoral cohort. The course builds the capability to conceptually examine the whole, the sum of parts, and even what might be greater than the sum of the parts, rather than the individual parts separately, propelling thinkers and leaders able to act with a view of both the current reality and the future. During this course, students explore organizational change, social justice, personal leadership, and policy research, providing a springboard for their doctoral program. Using the case method, students apply these concepts to real world case studies on systems, both educational and non-educational. Usually Offered: fall. Grading: A-F only.