Systems Syllabus

I am teaching my systems course at CCA for the second time this spring.  Student feedback from the first time was really positive, and I learned a great deal that I’ve built into this updated version.

At the high level, I’ve broken down the course like this:

• Weeks 1-4: Classical System Theory
  • Introduction
  • The Emotional Content
  • Classical Systems
  • Feedback
• Weeks 5-9: Systems and Software Design: Conceptual, Object & Data Models
  • Conceptual Model
  • Object & Data Model
  • Error Model
  • Interaction Model: La Enchilada Completa
  • Application One: Final Presentation
• Weeks 10-15: The Nature of Wicked Problems & The Opportunities for Software Mitigations
  • The Web Interface Context
  • Wicked Problems
  • The Organization as Context
  • Software Mitigations
  • The Application as Narrative
  • Application Two Final Presentation

For all the details, here is a link to the full syllabus:

California College of Arts, IXDSN-210: Systems Syllabus