Learning outcomes

After studying this course, you should be able to:

  • appreciate diagrams as a powerful aid to thinking and acting
  • distinguish between systems diagrams and diagrams helpful in systems work
  • demonstrate sufficient skills to ‘read’ and ‘draw’ a wide range of diagrams, following given conventions, that help improve an understanding of a situation
  • select diagrams suited to the needs of the situation being investigated and the purposes/preferences as the diagrammer.