This research was originally presented as a chapter in the doctoral dissertation On Becoming People’s College: An Appreciative Inquiry. Inquiry (Ai) is participatory approach to organizational change focused on an affirmative topic choice. The choice of equity, democracy, and justice at selected site. article shares motivations relevant characteristics chosen fieldwork site, De Anza College. Th...

This article advances the prerequisite network as a means to visualize the hidden structure in an academic curriculum. Network technologies have been used for some time now in social analyses and more recently in biology in the areas of genomics and systems biology. Here I treat the curriculum as a complex system with nodes representing courses and links between nodes the course prerequisites a...