Decision Making in a Complex and Uncertain World

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Decision Making in a Complex and Uncertain World
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What is the course about?

Decision Making in a Complex and Uncertain World
The course Decision Making in a Complex and Uncertain World is an online class provided by University of Groningen through Future Learn. It may be possible to receive a verified certification or use the course to prepare for a degree.

This course will teach you the first principles of complexity, uncertainty and how to make decisions in a complex world.

Course description
  • To learn how complexity and uncertainty influence and constrain our decisions.
  • 7 weeks
  • Our world seems to ever become more complex and uncertain. Future leaders must be able to act under these conditions. This course provides you with the broad scientific background necessary to develop yourself into one of the future’s key decision makers. First, this course will address the core concepts of complexity and uncertainty. Next, guest lecturers will related sub-fields. Finally, relating this all back together in case studies about financial stability and city development will conclude the course.
  • Complex Systems
  • Fundamental Uncertainty
  • Graph Theory and Networks
  • Emergent Behaviour
  • Agent-Based Modelling
  • Evolutionary Dynamics
  • Cellular Automata
  • Self-Organization
  • Path dependence and complexity in History
  • Decision making under Uncertainty, Heuristics and Biases
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Financial Stability and Crises
  • Growth and Development of Cities
  • Explain the difference between complex and complicated
  • Explain the difference between risk and uncertainty
  • Explain the following concepts: emergence, networks, evolutionary dynamics, social self-organisation and path dependence
  • Experiment with complex systems in simple agent-based models.
  • Apply the course concepts and tools to the social sciences of history, entrepreneurship, economics and spatial planning
  • Debate how complexity and uncertainty influence human decision making and how you can counter these effects
  • Anyone who needs to make decisions in a complex and uncertain context (e.g. managers and project coordinators). The course will be taught at undergraduate level. Basic knowledge of economic, financial institutions, mathematics and logic will be helpful.
  • University of Groningen
  • The University of Groningen is a research university with a global outlook, deeply rooted in Groningen, in the north of the Netherlands.
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Prerequisites & Facts

Decision Making in a Complex and Uncertain World

Course Topic

Personal Success, Teacher Training, Teaching & Academics

University, College, Institution

University of Groningen

Course Skill Level

see course summary

Course Language

English

Place of class

Online, self-paced (see curriculum for more information)

Degree

Certificate

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Degree & Cost

Decision Making in a Complex and Uncertain World

To obtain a verified certificate from Future Learn / University of Groningen you have to finish this course or the latest version of it, if there is a new edition. The class may be free of charge, but there could be some cost to receive a verified certificate or to access the learning materials. The specifics of the course may have been changed, please consult the provider to get the latest quotes and news.
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School: University of Groningen
Topic: Business & Management, Entrepreneurship, Management & Leadership, Professional Development

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