Course 2024-2025

Management of complex systems [SGIRM320]

  • 5 credits
  • 36h+24h
  • 1st quarter
Language of instruction: French / Français

Learning outcomes

By the end of the course, students will have acquired the skills to:

  • structure an action based on an interdisciplinary analysis of a concept
  •  carry out a systemic analysis of a complex situation
  •  apply the fundamental principles of project management

 

Objectives

To lay the epistemic foundations of integrated health risk management, i.e. present the epistemological basis of conceptual analysis, systemic analysis of a complex situation and principles of risk management.

 

Content

Six themes are developed:

- Practical use of concepts: function, choice and analysis

- Practical use of concepts: operationalisation

- Application of conceptual analysis

- Epistemological basis for action

- Complex thinking framework and complex adaptive systems

- Adaptive management, monitoring and evaluation, impact pathways

 


Teaching methods

The course develops an active teaching approach that draws on the diversity of learners, their experience and their training, which is put into perspective through exchanges with teachers and the frameworks and tools provided. The programme pays particular attention to building group dynamics.

 

Evaluations

In preparation for their dissertation, students submit a conceptual framework in line with the issues and context of their placement. The written versions, corrected by the lecturer, is then presented orally, in the form of a seminar, to which a mark is awarded.

Language of instruction

French / Français

Location for course

NAMUR

Organizer

Faculté des sciences
Rue de Bruxelles, 61
5000 NAMUR

Degree of Reference

Master's Degree