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Required Topic Areas Readings:
System Complexity and Chaos
http://www.lissack.com/writings/knowledge.htm
(Article by Micheal Lissack) http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/complexity/complexity.html
(Article by Grobstein)
Systems and Nature
http://www.magna.com.au/~prfbrown/f_capra.html
(Chapter 8 of Fritjof Capra's The Turning Point, divided
into 4 parts)
System Theories and Management
http://www.mastersforum.com/archives/wheatley/wheatf.htm
(Article by Michael Finley on the work of Margaret Wheatley)
http://www.scottlondon.com/insight/scripts/wheatley.html
(Interview with Margaret Wheatley)
Required Text:
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Additional On-line Resources
Optional (but could be very helpful):
- http://www.fastcompany.com/online/24/senge.html
- (Interview with Senge on change management)
http://www.dafonseca.com/ecoplexy/
(Journal on business ecosystems and complexity)
http://www.pfdf.org/leaderbooks/l2l/summer98/senge.html
(Chapter from Senge)
http://www.isss.org/primer/primer.htm
(A primer on systems theory)
http://www.brint.com/Systems.htm
(Many links on system complexity and chaos)
http://www.cio.com/archive/enterprise/041598_qanda_content.html
(Article by Megan Santosus)
http://home.att.net/~nickols/systems.htm
(A poem about systems theory by Fred Nickols)
http://www.magna.com.au/~prfbrown/ (Site with some possible
links of interest)
http://www.aom.pace.edu/bps/Papers/chaos.html
(Article by Steven Phelan)
http://www.sol-ne.org/ (Site
for organziational learning with several working papers available)
http://www.newciv.org/ISSS_Primer/asem10tm.html
(Article by Thomas Mandel)
http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/CSTHINK.html
(Bios of systems thinkers)
http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/MACRBOOK.html
(A book on systems by Joël de Rosnay)
http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/WORLVIEW.html
(A short book on a worldview)
http://www.mapnp.org/library/systems/systems.htm
(A resource site)
http://education.indiana.edu/~frick/siggs1.html
(An interesting site developing the relationships of system
components)
http://www.brint.com/papers/change/
(Article by Malhotra)
http://www.uni-klu.ac.at/users/gossimit/links/bookmksd.htm#Systems
Thinking (Some good links on systems thinking)
http://www.21learn.org/arch/articlesbycats.html
(Articles on Learning)
Educational Systems
http://www.isss.org/primer/003evsys.htm
(Article by Bela Banathy)
http://www.clark.net/pub/nhp/isi/lib/banathyh/edtech1.html
(Article by Bela Banathy)
http://www.21learn.org/arch/articles/ash_complexity.html
(Article by Ash Hartwell)
http://www.ascd.org/pdi/demo/systemthink/read1a.html
(Article by Betts)
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Course Requirements:
Write an intervention paper for a problem at work/ community
(minimum 5 references cited)
- Intervention Paper - 70%
Write a 300 - 350 word summary of one of the three topics
for posting.
- Topic Posting - 20%
Review another class members posting - max 100 words
Review Posting - 10%
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Intervention Paper Evaluation
- Has the problem been defined and interpreted properly?
- Has an orderly approach been taken in analyzing the problem?
- Does the paper list references correctly?
- Does the paper follow the suggested format?
- Is the spelling correct?
- Has good grammar and sentence structure been used?
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