This course is intended for the students who are interested in understanding autonomic systems. First, the need and motivation for autonomic systems will be described. Next, we will review different autonomic architectures from the US, Europe and Asia, emphasizing core mechanisms such as control loops, management abstractions, and how sensors and effectors interface the autonomic manager to the entity being managed. We will then examine the salient features of representative autonomic systems, and augment this with practical examples based on our WCU ITCE program, and discuss potential research topics for autonomics graduate students. The course will conclude with examples that explain how to manage different types of systems, how to enable business needs to drive the management of systems and services, and how to orchestrate behavior.