Transdisciplinarity and Systems

Catalog description

Transdisciplinarity involves gaining insights about patterns that occur across or connect disciplines. The course presents multiple perspectives to study the nature, scope, value, and potential of transdisciplinarity as there is no existing universal definition, theory, or methodology. The course examines several kinds of disciplinarity as approaches to problem solving. Problems are investigated in the areas of society, engineering, and nature. Topics include characteristics, management, methodologies, analysis, and tools for understanding and applying approaches. Complex systems are addressed with consideration of interdisciplinary systems, systems-of-systems, varying scales, uncertainty, and nonlinearity.