Stratagem: The Sustainable Development Simulation Game

Catalog description

This course revolves around Stratagem, the computer assisted sustainable development simulation game. In Stratagem, students assume the roles of ministers in the government of an unsustainable less developed country. They then try to chart a course of maximally sustainable development for that country over a period of up to 100 years. Along the way, students explore how a host of social, political, and economic variables interact in ways that shape the fate of any country as a complex system. Class-wide debriefing sessions give students a chance to brainstorm, to critique, and to compare strategies for meeting their sustainable development goals.