System Dynamics Applied Practice I: Designing Responsive Community Based System Dynamics Approaches

1 unit

This course focuses on supporting students to apply concepts, skills, and tools of SWPM-6074: Community Based System Dynamics to applied community contexts. Students are invited to bring a dynamic problem related to their ongoing community-based work as an input to course activities. The course will focus on skill building in identifying community priorities and concerns; translating narratives and research evidence into preliminary model structure; and on skills of designing community-specific and culturally relevant group model building workshops. This course applies a strength based, resource-based view of individuals, organizations and communities through reflective work on individual practice and through design of approaches to engaging communities and organizations. The course is structured as a group independent study; specific meeting times and frequency will be determined based on student and instructor schedules.