We saved our own copies of audio and video tapes until after Warfield retired in 2000, then donated them all to the Warfield Special Collection at Fenwick Library. RESOLVING COMPLEXITY IN ORGANIZATIONS was the overall title for the class. Different titles were used for the videotapes of some class sessions, as follows: Discovery and Complexity Lecture, Complexity Lectures, Discovery and Complexity in Organizations, John N. Warfield Spring Semester Class Lecture, and furthermore DIFFERENT TITLES WERE USED FROM TIME TO TIME FOR THE AUDIOTAPE LABELS: Warfield Lecture, Complexity Lecture, John N. Warfield Class Lecture. There were 14 classroom sessions, of approx 2 ½ hours each, recorded on VHS videocassette and standard size audiocassette. Some sessions are on 2 videocassettes each while others are recorded at SLP speed and occupy only one cassette. In all there are 21 VIDEO cassettes in the series. Plus audiotapes in Boxes 53 and 54 and a folder of textual materials in Box 39 Folder 2.
Offered as a 3-hour credit course by two university departments, the class had two different course numbers and two different official titles: Public Policy: Course # PUBP710-002, Topics in Public Policy & Management: Managing Organizational Complexities Communication, AND Course # 590Sem003, Seminar in Communication: Resolving Complexities in Organizations. The first class meeting was 30 Jan. 1999, and the last meeting was 8 May 1999. The class was scheduled as a weekly 3-hour session, meeting from 9 am until approximately 11:40 am Saturday mornings. The classes were held on the GMU campus in Room 20 of Pohick Module, except for the first 2 sessions, which were in a classroom on 2nd floor of Krug Hall. Assisting at the 24 April class session is Professor Benjamin J. Broome, of the university's Communication Department, who discusses his work using ISM on the island of Cyprus. Warfield’s Spring Semester class was videotaped through an arrangement with Mr. Jim Harris, of Toronto, Canada who paid half of the cost of the taping and was sent a weekly shipment of each class lecture. Mr. Harris, a management consultant who is busy most of the time on a lecture circuit, had enrolled for the course on a long-distance basis. Being unable to attend most lectures, he had requested videotapes as a substitute. In addition to the videotapes, audiotaping was done simultaneously for each of these lectures, and after each class meeting Rose packaged and shipped copies of both audio and videotape to Mr. Harris. We saved our own copy of audio and video until after Warfield retired in 2000, then donated them to the Warfield Special Collection at Fenwick Library, along with all the rest of the boxes of stuff. These tapes were recorded by the Student Technical Assistance and Resource Center (STAR), a university program which provides videotaping in the classroom, with the cameras operated by GMU students. Camera work was done by Jenny, Shawn and Jessica, under direction of STAR production manager Mr. Michael Aitken. There were only two students formally enrolled for the course, Mr. Jim Harris, and Brian Gore, a GMU graduate student working on his Masters in Communication. In addition there were several visitors who came to listen to the lectures, the most regular one being Prof. Mingshen Wang, from Taiwan, a visiting scholar at GMU for the semester.
Dates of the class meetings were: 30 January 1999 (1st class mtg, in Krug Hall); 6 February 1999 (2nd class mtg, in Krug Hall); 13 February 1999 (3rd class mtg, in Pohick Module); 20 February 1999 (4th); 27 February 1999 (5th); 6 March 1999 (6th); 13 March 1999 (7th); 20 March 1999 (8th); 27 March 1999 (9th); 3 April 1999 (10th); 17 April 1999 (11th class mtg); 24 April 1999 (12th); 1 May 1999 (13th); 8 May 1999 (14th class mtg)
(R.w. from notes started in 1999, and finished 17 March 2007)
Full List of Spring Semester Class Lectures:
Discovery and Complexity, 30 January 1999
Video:“Tape 1 of 2,” “Tape 2 of 2”
Audio: “Tape 1 of 2,” “Tape 2 of 2
Discovery and Complexity, 6 February 1999
Video:. “Tape 1 of 2,”“Tape 2 of 2”
Audio: “Tape 1 of 2,”“Tape 2 of 2”
Complexity Lectures, 13 February 1999
Video:“Tape 1 of 2,” “Tape 2 of 2”
Audio: “Tape 1 of 2,”“Tape 2 of 2”
Slow-speed: “Slow-speed copy of 1 & 2”
Resolving Complexity in Organizations, 20 February 1999
Video:“Tape 1 of 2,” “Tape 2 of 2”
Audio: “Tape 1 of 2,” “Tape 2 of 2”
Complexity Lectures, 27 February 1999
Video:“Tape 1 of 1”
Audio: “Tape 1 of 1”
Complexity Lectures, 6 March 1999
Video:“Tape 1 of 1”
Audio: “Tape 1 of 2,” “Tape 2 of 2”
Complexity Lectures, 13 March 1999
Video:“Tape 1 of 1”
Audio: “Tape 1 of 1”
Resolving Complexity in Organizations, 20 March 1999
Video:“Tape 1 of 2,”“Tape 2 of 2”
Audio: “Tape 1 of 2,” “Tape 2 of 2”
John N. Warfield Spring Semester Class Lecture, 27 March 1999
Video:“Tape 1 of 1”
Audio: “Part 3”
Discovery & Complexity in Organizations, 3 April 1999
Video:“Tape 1 of 1”
Audio: “Tape 1 of 1”
John N. Warfield Spring Semester Class Lecture, 17 April 1999
Video: “Tape 1 of 2,”“Tape 2 of 2”
Audio: “Tape 1 of 4,” “Tape 2 of 4,” “Tape 3 of 4,” “Tape 4 of 4”
John N. Warfield Spring Semester Class Lecture, Guest Lecturer Dr. Benjamin Broome Talks About his Work With Interactive Management, 24 April 1999
Video:“Tape 1 of 2,” “Tape 2 of 2”
Audio: “Tape 1 of 2,” “Tape 2 of 2”
John N. Warfield Spring Semester Class Lecture, 1 May 1999
Video:“Tape 1 of 1”
Audio: “Tape 1 of 1”
John N. Warfield Spring Semester Class Lecture, 8 May 1999
Video:“Tape 1 of 1”
Audio: “Tape 1 of 2,” “Tape 2 of 2”
