Wicked Problems and Grand Challenges. 3 credits

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Wicked Problems and Grand Challenges focuses on teaching principals and practice of next generation approaches for conservation and development with a problem-oriented approach. This course will review how we may harness the power of emerging exponential technologies (e.g. gene editing, machine vision, and robotics), open innovation (e.g. prizes, challenges, mass collaboration, and citizen science), and entrepreneurship (e.g. for-profit, hybrid, and open source models for scale) inside both the public and private sector to transform the efficacy and scale of conservation and development efforts. This course will review the current problem sets in conservation and development, rethink assumptions regarding how to address them, and consider real case examples of successes and failures. Finally, we will also bring in select leading social innovators and development experts who have pioneered new approaches to wicked problems. Offered by Provost's Office . Limited to three attempts.