SPIA-2024: Community Systems Thinking
Description: Introduction to systems thinking concepts and their application to community-based problem solving and decision making. Emphasis on identifying interactions between technical and contextual dimensions of persistent, complex global problems. Introduces systemic frameworks for defining problems, identifying and engaging stakeholders, ideating interventions, selecting and employing criteria for decision making, and creating feedback mechanisms for iterative design. Ethics of community engagement is considered. Includes problem- based service-learning projects.
Pathways: 3 Reasoning in Social Sciences, 11 Intercultural&Global Aware.
Course Hours: 3 credits
Corequisites: N/A
Crosslist: N/A
Repeatability: N/A
Sections Taught: 2
Average GPA: 3.47 (A-)
Strict A Rate (No A-) : 53.75%
Average Withdrawal Rate: 0.00%
| Staff Moayerian | 2019 | 80.0% | 10.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 10.0% | 0.0% | 3.50 | 1 |
| Gary R Kirk | 2018 | 43.8% | 56.3% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 3.44 | 1 |