Course SPCS: Reading Experience

Reading Experience

This Course was open to students of Omsk State University, Russia. The following forms of studying were used for reading the course: lectures, seminars, small group work, lecture-dialogue with using the audio-visual facilities. The main approaches to formalizations of social processes were given during the lectures. The created models demonstration encouraged the arising of the difference debate and analysis about simulation results. Students had own model which they have presented to build a simulation model in the discussion classes.

Discussion: Family Modelling

The students were got the situation tasks. They had offered the following structure of models:

	Model of Conflict of Duties Performance in Family Modelling Objects: father, mother, daughter. Environment: apartment. Influence Factors: hungry, hygiene. Interaction Rule: to satisfy conditions of comfort life in environment. Conflict Situation: objects don't perform its duties.
	Model of Priorities Destruction in Family Modelling Objects: husband, wife. Environment: economic state of family. Influence Factors: incomes. Interaction Rule: to save the traditional priorities. Conflict Situation: the wife's income more than husband's income.
	Model of Dialogue Crisis in Family Modelling Objects: father, mother, daughter. Environment: psychological sphere. Influence Factors: need for dialogue. Interaction Rule: to search the ways of concensus. Conflict Situation: not coincidence of outlooks.
	Model of Life Space in Family Modelling Objects: father, mother, grandmother, son, daughter, cat. Environment: room. Influence Factors: limit of space. Interaction Rule: to distribute the life space. Conflict Situation: lack of required space.
	Model of Seasonal Conflicts in Family Modelling Objects: father, mother, grandmother, son, daughter, cat. Environment: biofields. Influence Factors: seasons. Interaction Rule: seasonal migration. Conflict Situation: the inadequate perception of the seasonal change.

This course was being visited the students of the difference specialisation. The below figure illustrates the distribution of students' number according to interest in course on the departments.