Applied Decision Science - 635.622

This course will cover the core concepts and applications of decision science in enabling and enhancing human decision making. The decision science topics include prescriptive, descriptive, and normative models; utility and value theories, biases, and human values. Further, the course will motivate the student to explore three perspectives on human decision making – heuristics based approach, natural decision making and military decision making. The course will emphasize the importance of data, information, decisional contexts and enablement of informed human decision making. The assignments (readings, discussions, project and research paper) weigh decision science and its real-world applications equally. Prerequisites (knowledge of undergraduate level probability and statistics).