Postgraduate Module Descriptor

POLM883DA: Systems Thinking in Theory and Practice

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

Module Aims

The Systems Thinking in Theory and Practice module will help apprentices meet a range of skills (S1, S2, S3, S4, S7), knowledges (K1, K2, K3) and behaviours (B2, B3, B5, B6, B7, B8) 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 Skills1. Demonstrate a sound working knowledge of critical systems heuristics, and critical and reflective perspectives on the method’s applicability, limits, and benefits as they pertain to system modelling and interventions.
2. Evidence a critical and detailed understanding of the applied critical systems heuristics method.
3. Analyse different options for designing a complex, ethical, and reflective systems intervention regime, inclusive of and evidencing critical consideration of different intervention methods.
4. Gather and analyse of a range of soft system data to deliver interventions, change and impact
Discipline-Specific Skills5. Evidence a holistic and comparative understanding of the critical systems heuristics method within the wider school of soft systems methods.
6. Evidence a well-developed theoretical and practical understandings of the evaluation of systems interventions
Personal and Key Skills7. Demonstrate reflexive skills and behaviours for critical self-reflection, personal development, and system design.
8. Explore and reflect upon personal biases, ethics, and beliefs as they pertain to systems and professional practice