Systems Course
Understanding Problem Situations As If Complexity Mattered:
An Introductory Course in Systems Thinking
Here are the 14 lectures from a course I teach online at Gaia College, http://www.gaiacollege.ca/systems-thinking-online.html. The full course at Gaia College includes required readings, additional resources and practical exercises in a learning environment of interaction between students and the instructor.
1. Introduction
3. A Systems Thinker’s view of how the world works
4. Visualizing Our Mental Models – Mind Maps
5. Complex Systems Science vs. Reductionist Science
7. Probing The Boundaries Question
9. A Method Of Systems Thinking Practice
10. Working with Simulation Models
11. Systems Thinking Applied to Sustainability
12. Introduction to System Dynamics Simulation
