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Course Name: Map the System
Course Name: Map the System
Credits: 2-credits
Credits: 2-credits
Term: Spring Term 2025
Term: Spring Term 2025
Instructor: Carolyn Niehaus
Registration: BA 510
Instructor: Carolyn Niehaus
Registration: BA 510
Location/Modality: Every other Wednesday, 5:40-9:20 in person, and online coursework
Location/Modality: Every other Wednesday, 5:40-9:20 in person, and online coursework
Through Map the System, a friendly graduate student competition, participants will apply a set of practices, habits, and tools that help individuals, organizations, and businesses think through complexity and visualize complex systems. Students will choose a regional system, uncover dynamics within that system that have potential for impact, and reveal where interventions can reach levers for systems change, or have unintended consequences. At the end of the course, participants will present their understanding of the system they chose, highlighting existing efforts to intervene in the system as well as any levers of change. One Map the System PSU team will be selected to attend the Global Map the System competition at the University of Oxford in July 2025.
This class is for you if you are:
Interested in solving complex, issue-based problems
Looking for careers in social and environmental impact
Developing an awareness of the role you can play in different systems
Motivated to think outside traditional, linear approaches to problem-solving
Curious what any of this means!
Map the System is a program of the University of Oxford Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, delivered in partnership with colleges and universities around the world.
Contact [email protected] with questions, ideas, or to get more information.
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