SYSEN 5290

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  • Schedule of Classes - March 17, 2025 8:55AM EDT

SYSEN 5290
Transdisciplinarity and Systems

Course information provided by the 2025-2026 Catalog.

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.


Enrollment Priority REF-FA25 Open to: graduate students.

Last 4 terms offered (None)

Outcomes REF-FA25

  • Identify disciplinarity of various systems.
  • Develop transdisciplinary methods for defining, describing, and analyzing systems.
  • Demonstrate transdisciplinary approaches to solving systems problems.

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  9724 SYSEN 5290   LEC 001

  •  
    • TR
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025

    • Whitcomb, C

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    Enrollment limited to: Systems Engineering graduate students; all others by permission of department.

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  9725 SYSEN 5290   LEC 002

  •  
    • TBA
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025

    • Whitcomb, C

  • Instruction Mode: Distance Learning-Asynchronous

    Enrollment limited to: Systems Engineering distance learning students.