GLMI 708 : Critical, Creative and Strategic Thinking

Business and Economics

2020 Semester One (1203) (15 POINTS)

Course Prescription

Focuses on learning and applying ideas, processes and technologies to critical, creative and strategic thinking in fields related to leadership, management and change. Emphasises building the confidence, dexterity and set of practices to question and create new pathways for collaborative and systemic challenges.

Course Overview

You will do lots of courses where you are expected to think but there are few courses that teach you how to think. This course introduces you to the core kinds of thinking required for organisational, leadership and change work. You will develop above all a practice in critical, creative and strategic thinking that you can apply to, not just your academic work, but real world problems. In fact we partner with a leading NZ organisation who is seeking cutting edge thinking on a real world issue. This is a class where you need to be prepared to participate in thinking based activities, read broadly to expand your knowledge base, and be reflective about your own learning and development. We welcome both major and elective students for a truly interdisciplinary experience.

Course Requirements

No pre-requisites or restrictions

Capabilities Developed in this Course

Capability 1: Disciplinary Knowledge and Practice
Capability 2: Critical Thinking
Capability 3: Solution Seeking
Capability 4: Communication and Engagement
Capability 5: Independence and Integrity
Graduate Profile: Master of Commerce

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this course, students will be able to:
  1. Critically evaluate the diverse theoretical literatures on critical, creative and strategic thinking (Capability 1, 2 and 4.2)
  2. Evaluate and apply: practices of critical, creative and strategic thinking to complex organisational challenges (Capability 3 and 4.1)
  3. Engage in deep listening, reflexive dialogue and collaboration as a means to learn (Capability 4.3 and 5.1)
  4. Write and present persuasively and reflexively in order to convey expansive and complex thinking (Capability 3, 4.1 and 4.2)

Assessments

Assessment Type Percentage Classification
Written Reflection 5% Individual Coursework
Reflective Journal 30% Individual Coursework
Project Report 35% Group & Individual Coursework
Oral Presentation 15% Individual Coursework
Class Participation 15% Individual Coursework
Assessment Type Learning Outcome Addressed
1 2 3 4
Written Reflection
Reflective Journal
Project Report
Oral Presentation
Class Participation

Workload Expectations

This course is a standard 15 point course and students are expected to spend 10 hours per week involved in each 15 point course that they are enrolled in.

For this course, you can expect 3 hours of lectures, 3 hours of reading and thinking about the content and 4 hours of work on assignments and/or test preparation.

Learning Resources

There will be no textbooks but there will be an online reading list available in Talis with case studies and both theoretical and practice based articles and chapters. Our external thinking partner supplies us with material that prepares us for the thinking challenge we do with them. In addition students are expected to search for relevant material from independent research.

Digital Resources

Course materials are made available in a learning and collaboration tool called Canvas which also includes reading lists and lecture recordings (where available).

Please remember that the recording of any class on a personal device requires the permission of the instructor.

Academic Integrity

The University of Auckland will not tolerate cheating, or assisting others to cheat, and views cheating in coursework as a serious academic offence. The work that a student submits for grading must be the student's own work, reflecting their learning. Where work from other sources is used, it must be properly acknowledged and referenced. This requirement also applies to sources on the internet. A student's assessed work may be reviewed against online source material using computerised detection mechanisms.

Inclusive Learning

All students are asked to discuss any impairment related requirements privately, face to face and/or in written form with the course coordinator, lecturer or tutor.

Student Disability Services also provides support for students with a wide range of impairments, both visible and invisible, to succeed and excel at the University. For more information and contact details, please visit the Student Disability Services’ website at http://disability.auckland.ac.nz

Special Circumstances

If your ability to complete assessed coursework is affected by illness or other personal circumstances outside of your control, contact a member of teaching staff as soon as possible before the assessment is due.

If your personal circumstances significantly affect your performance, or preparation, for an exam or eligible written test, refer to the University’s aegrotat or compassionate consideration page: https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/students/academic-information/exams-and-final-results/during-exams/aegrotat-and-compassionate-consideration.html.

This should be done as soon as possible and no later than seven days after the affected test or exam date.

Student Feedback

At the end of every semester students will be invited to give feedback on the course and teaching through a tool called SET or Qualtrics. The lecturers and course co-ordinators will consider all feedback and respond with summaries and actions.

Your feedback helps teachers to improve the course and its delivery for future students.

Class Representatives in each class can take feedback to the department and faculty staff-student consultative committees.

Student Charter and Responsibilities

The Student Charter assumes and acknowledges that students are active participants in the learning process and that they have responsibilities to the institution and the international community of scholars. The University expects that students will act at all times in a way that demonstrates respect for the rights of other students and staff so that the learning environment is both safe and productive. For further information visit Student Charter (https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/students/forms-policies-and-guidelines/student-policies-and-guidelines/student-charter.html).

Disclaimer

Elements of this outline may be subject to change. The latest information about the course will be available for enrolled students in Canvas.

In this course you may be asked to submit your coursework assessments digitally. The University reserves the right to conduct scheduled tests and examinations for this course online or through the use of computers or other electronic devices. Where tests or examinations are conducted online remote invigilation arrangements may be used. The final decision on the completion mode for a test or examination, and remote invigilation arrangements where applicable, will be advised to students at least 10 days prior to the scheduled date of the assessment, or in the case of an examination when the examination timetable is published.

Published on 25/02/2020 11:39 a.m.