University of Sydney
Humanities Thinking Masterclass
- Delivery: Online
- Study Level: Beginner
- Duration: 1 day
- Course Type: Short Course
- Total Price: $250
Discover how to use a humanities perspective to address business challenges.
Course overview
As a leader, complexity and uncertainty come standard. Humanities thinking helps you navigate ambiguity and sharpen your decision-making.
This masterclass explores how humanities thinking can help you navigate ambiguity and sharpen your decision-making in a technology-driven world. Through close reading techniques, you'll learn to uncover hidden insights, understand different perspectives and identify what is happening beneath the surface. By applying a humanities lens to business challenges, you'll develop new ways of approaching complexity and uncertainty.
Key facts
What you will learn
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Apply humanities thinking to navigate complex business decisions with confidence.
- Use close reading to uncover hidden insights and diverse perspectives.
- Make sense of incomplete, conflicting information to lead through uncertainty.
How will you learn
Online, two-hour interactive workshop.
Who should attend
Leaders who deal with ambiguity, conflicting information, and competing perspectives and want a richer toolkit for making sense of it all.
Who You Will Learn From
Jonty Claypole
Coordinator
Jonty Claypole is CEO of Red Room Poetry, Australia's largest poetry and creative learning nonprofit. He was formerly Director of Arts at the BBC and ran many literature programs and campaigns, sat on the advisory board of the Booker Prize and was regularly in The Bookseller’s ‘100 Most Influential People in Publishing’. He is the author of Words Fail Us: In Defence of Dysfluency.
Sophie Gee
Coordinator
Sophie is an English professor at Princeton University, and is currently the inaugural Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow at the University of Sydney. She’s leading a project that shares the ideas and skills of humanities across all parts of the university and into the public. She is the author of acclaimed fiction and literary criticism, including The Scandal of the Season: a novel; Making Waste and The Barbarous Feast.