PPUA 5246 — Participatory Modeling for Collaborative Decision Making
4 semester hoursGraduateLabusually offered: springtypical days: ThBostonTraditional
Studies participatory modeling, a knowledge coproduction and collaborative approach to decision making. The collaborative approach strengthens relationship building, empathy, trust, systems thinking, and collective agency for decision making. Participatory modeling allows researchers and decision makers to coproduce knowledge and shared representations of a complex problem and design and test solutions to address it. Using various modeling techniques (e.g., spatial analysis, causal loop diagraming, fuzzy cognitive mapping), participatory modeling helps elicit diverse stakeholder knowledge and harnesses this diversity to move from conflict to solutions.
Offering history
| Term | Sections | Enrolled | Capacity | Full | Open seats/section |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spring 2024 | 1 | 10 | 24 | 42% | 14.0 |
| Spring 2025 | 1 | 12 | 24 | 50% | 12.0 |
| Spring 2026 | 1 | 13 | 25 | 52% | 12.0 |
Snapshots from scheduled scrapes — not live seat availability. "Full" can exceed 100% when sections over-enroll.
Meeting times
Share of recent sections by weekday: M 0% · T 0% · W 0% · Th 100% · F 0%
Common patterns: R (100% of sections) — in patterns, R means Thursday
Professors
Spring
- Moira Zellner (100% of students) · reviews
Percentages are each professor's average share of the season's enrolled students in recent terms.
Links
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