Distance Students
As a distance student you have full access to all material and follow the same structure as on campus students. You will only miss out on live lectures and on campus seminars and you will hand in a different type of report. you will do the written online exam in the same way as other students.
If you miss the lecture and seminar during one day of attendance
You will compensate for this by sending comments to the teacher about four of the presentations you have missed during the lectures and seminars the day you could not attend.
The report that you send in to the forum named “distance students” in iLearn2.dsv.su.se should contain the following for each presentation:
- Your evaluation of the relevance of the story and its questions.
- Your proposal of answers/solutions to the questions
- Your arguments to your proposed answers/solutions
If you have not presented your story with questions and answers during lectures or seminar
In case you do not present your stories as part of your assignment you need to hand in an essay describing your thesis. This should take the form of being a scientific report on at least 7 pages and it should satisfy basic requirements on scientific reports.
The topic for the report that a distance students hand in
The topic of your report should be. An example of how system thinking should be implemented in a Swedish organization. You can write such a report by:
- Starting from your work experience in any company. Preferably one where you had experience of how the organization was managed.
- Applying the theories of the course to discover how the company/organization should be re-organized to satisfy the system science type of requirements as stated in the two books we study during the course.
- Describe how you have applied system thinking to find solutions to the problems
- Present a model of the organization that solves your discovered problems and argue for why your solutions will improve the organization.