Problem Solving Through Strategic Thinking

Catalog description

Students learn how to ask questions, brainstorm and communicate ideas, while dealing with uncertain outcomes and unpredictable risks caused by the ideas and solutions they propose. In understanding which ideas and solutions stick and which don't, students learn how different factors influence the birth, life and death of ideas and the socio-technical systems in which ideation exists. Does it matter who asks the questions and proposes the ideas, who is trying to participate, who was there first, if there is a profit or other conflicting motive and the context and the interests that result in certain solutions being picked over others? This course uses exploration learning approaches, where students follow a progression through what they discover, from understanding who they are as individuals, to how ideas are formed and hypothesis made about proposed solutions.