Postgraduate Module Descriptor

POLM882DA: Stakeholders and Complex Systems

This module descriptor refers to the 2021/2 academic year.

Module Aims

This module will help apprentices meet a range of skills (S1, S5, S6, S7, S8), knowledges (K1, K2, K3) and behaviours (B3, B8, B9) implicit in the IATE Systems Thinking Practitioner standard.

Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs)
This module's assessment will evaluate your achievement of the ILOs listed here - you will see reference to these ILO numbers in the details of the assessment for this module.
On successfully completing the programme you will be able to:
Module-Specific Skills	1. Articulate and critically evaluate the position and role of stakeholders and people in the evolution of the soft systems school of systems thought 2. Generate stakeholder interest and influence system maps for building effective, ethical, and critically considered intervention regimes. 3. Lead stakeholder interventions under complexity and uncertainty 4. Account for the benefits, limitations and contexts for qualitative and quantitative data gathering for building stakeholder systems maps and interventions 5. Account for the benefits, limitations and contexts of different stakeholder engagement and change implementation strategies
Discipline-Specific Skills	6. Engender new and developed stakeholder engagement and collaboration skills for inter and cross disciplinary / organisational problem solving 7. Integrate systems knowledges, laws, and concepts in the development of appropriate stakeholder intervention regime 8. Deliver engagements that influence and enthuse stakeholders through complex systems environments
Personal and Key Skills	9. Demonstrate self-reflective empathy and emotional intelligence for influencing, leading, and educating.

Module Content

Syllabus Plan

Whilst the module’s precise content may vary from year to year, it is envisaged that the syllabus will cover some or all of the following topics:

Evidence-based policy making
Stakeholder mapping approaches
Stakeholder theory
Leading stakeholder/change interventions

Learning and Teaching

This table provides an overview of how your hours of study for this module are allocated:

Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities	Guided independent study	Placement / study abroad
22.5	67.5

...and this table provides a more detailed breakdown of the hours allocated to various study activities:

Category	Hours of study time	Description
Scheduled Learning & Teaching activities	22.5	Masterclasses The masterclasses are where apprentices are given day length teaching and learning, contextualised through practical group exercises.
Guided Independent Study	67.5	Weekly study sessions. One day per week spent on guided, independent, group and informational sessions to enhance, contextualise, and practice the learnings from masterclasses.

Online Resources

This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).