EVAL500

042220

Many problems and challenges faced in communities are multilevel, long term and complicated. Often, information defining the problem and used for evidence to respond to the problem are incomplete or distrusted by key partners engaged in the problem. This course provides a chance to understand complex problems, what we will call wicked problems. We will learn how to define them (know them when we see them), identify the key partners engaged, understand the framing of the problem and the evidence used to inform problem definition as well as solution identification. We will talk about key wicked problems of our time and we will interrogate applied research approaches to these issues.

GRD - Regular Grades A, B, C, D, E

Graduate