596 Independent Study (1–12:0:0) Covers research, analysis, and implementation within realm of social and organizational learning. Students work with member of program faculty. May be repeated for credit.
601 Organizational Learning (3:3:0) Re-examination of organizations and role of management from interpretive standpoint. Develops process view of organizations that identifies differences in interests, perspectives, and cultures among groups and explains role of management in facilitating understanding to achieve effective cooperation in a dynamic work environment. Themes include organizational culture, decision-making, collaborative communities, and teamwork, and “reading” of organizational change. Case studies and experiential exercises reinforce learning process. Complements LRNG 672.
602 Group Dynamics and Team Learning (3:3:0) Using unstructured learning environments, participants learn how to facilitate team learning for organizational effectiveness by engaging in meaningful group interaction. Explores various aspects of group dynamics such as power, perception, motivation, leadership, and decision making.
672 Organizational Learning Laboratory (3:3:0) Focuses on creating learning and experimental environment to explore questions and concerns typically faced by managers in effort to build learning organizations. Analyzes questions using experiential learning and action research. Classroom group interactions and group projects simulate real-world organizations. Object is to acquire competence to diagnose and analyze organizations and develop skills to become better facilitators of organizational learning. Complements LRNG 601.
692, 792 Special Topics in LRNG (1–3:1–3:0) Covers topics in social or organizational change seen from economic, historical, philosophical, literary, organizational, and information technology perspectives. New courses that first appear under this heading include Teaching Practicum: Instructional Technologies, Building Learning Organizations for Global Business, Computational Modeling of Social Learning, and Strategic Knowledge Management. May be repeated for credit.
714 Ethnography of Corporate Culture (3:3:0) Corporate culture is not a simple byproduct of organizational charts and advertising images, but rather the web of meaning that endows organizational action with its deepest significance. Corporate cultures must be studied by ethnographic methods of “thick description.” After exploring conceptions of corporate culture, course examines exemplary ethnographies of various organizations, including those of different societies, to prepare students for their own ethnographic field work and writing.
762 Strategic Knowledge Management (3:3:0) Deals with theory and practices of leveraging and sharing knowledge to develop more effective organizations. Focuses on knowledge and communities of practice, and includes use of collaborative technology in managing interactions.
763 Technology and Learning in Organizations (3:3:0) Examines enormous potential of information technology to enhance the way organizations work and learn. Focus includes user interface design, and organizational processes that support effective use of this technology.
764 Learning Across Cultures (3:3:0) Focuses on ideas and practices involved in fostering learning, innovation, and new knowledge creation in the highly multicultural environments of knowledge intensive, global economies, and political systems.
781 Interpretive Social Theory (3:3:0) Advanced, philosophical study of interpretive school of economics sometimes known as the “Austrians.” Weaves together Austrian ideas, epistemology, and hermeneutics; organizing theme is reinterpretation of Austrian school as radically interpretive approach to social theory. Course material is in the form of Folio Views hyper-text, which lends itself to close analysis of text and provides practical way of demonstrating and appreciating value of interpretive social theory.
796 Independent Study (1–12:1–12:0) Requires research, analysis, and implementation within realm of social and organizational learning. Students work with member of program faculty. May be repeated for credit.