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Overview
By integrating tools from five traditions of systems thinking into your practice, you will develop capability towards making choices with ethical awareness and political sensitivity. You will nurture capacity to strategically utilise both improved understanding of inter-relationships, and enhanced engagement with multiple perspectives. The module is designed to enrich your understanding of systems thinking whilst making practical progress on situations from your existing professional work and/or situations of more general interest to you.
Vocational relevance
- By studying the Making Strategy With Systems Thinking In Practice module at The Open University UK, you will be enhancing your role as a systems thinking practitioner; enabling you to make practical improvements to complex issues, by using a range of systems thinking ideas, tools and techniques.
- You will extend your competence as a professional to have an impact in ethically sound and politically just ways.
- Students who have successfully completed previous Open University modules in Systems Thinking in Practice have benefited personally, as well as being able to contribute to organisations encountering the increasing volatility, uncertainty and complexity of modern life.
Programme Structure
Course include:
- situations at a local, regional or international level; and/ or
- situations concerning organisations, institutions or networks.
You might be working in any of a wide range of domains. Previous students of Systems Thinking in Practice have worked on situations associated with:
- education, training and professional development
- sustainability and environmental decision making
- finance and economic planning
- international and community development and social justice
- health and social care
- IT and cybersecurity
- engineering, manufacturing, logistics and procurement
- creative and performing arts
Key information
Duration
- Part-time
- 6 months
Start dates & application deadlines
- Starting
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Language
English
Credits
30 alternative credits
Delivered
Online
Campus Location
- Milton Keynes, United Kingdom
Disciplines
Industrial & Systems Engineering View 7 other Short Courses in Industrial & Systems Engineering in United KingdomWhat students do after studying
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Academic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.
Other requirements
General requirements
- There are no entry requirements, but we do assume that you have already done some study up to HNC, HND or bachelors degree level, or have equivalent experience from your employment.
- Gaining some prior awareness, knowledge and experience of systems thinking will help you benefit more from the course material – for example, by engaging with open educational resources on OpenLearn. A complete list of systems thinking resources is available on our School of Engineering and Innovation pages.
- Your spoken and written English must be of an adequate standard for postgraduate study. If English is not your first language, we recommend that you will need a minimum overall score of 6 and minimum score of 5.5 in each of the four components: reading, writing, speaking and listening under the International English Language Testing System (IELTS).
Tuition Fees
Tuition fees are shown in and the most likely applicable fee is shown based on your nationality.
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International Applies to you
Applies to youNon-residents1775 GBP / full≈ 1775 GBP / full -
Domestic Applies to you
Applies to youCitizens or residents1775 GBP / full≈ 1775 GBP / full
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