The course is meant to familiarize students with the concepts, laws, tools and applications of Systems Thinking to model, analyse and solve real-world problems characterizsed by their open-ended, ill-structured nature.
1. The need for Systems Thinking
2. Counter-intuitive Phenomena
3. Problems: Recognition and Description
4. Problems: Conceptual Representation and Specification
5. Systems Structure: Concepts and Modelling Tools
6. Systems Behaviour: Concepts and Modelling Tools
7. Systems Control: Simulation and Policy Analysis