The Transdisciplinary Studies Program at CGU enables University scholars to collaborate and innovate around society’s most complex issues, offering students opportunities to construct, blend, and transcend traditional academic fields so they may shape their individualized courses of study to extend beyond disciplinary boundaries.
“The emergence of transdisciplinarity … signalled the need for new syntheses at a time of growing fragmentation of knowledge and culture. New synthetic frameworks emerged, including general systems, post/structuralism, feminist theory, and sustainability. … Broadly speaking, though, emphasis is shifting from traditional epistemology to problem solving, from the pre-given to the emergent, and from universality to hybridity and contextuality.“
Real world problems involve many actors, are often ill-defined, and are unique to each context. In order for universities to best connect to the problems/situations of the real-world, disciplinary boundaries should be blended, transcended, and re-imagined.
Transdisciplinary approaches and frameworks emphasize systems, complexity, community, common ground, and conjunction to facilitate collaboration across a wide array of disciplines, sectors, institutions, and stakeholders in pursuit of re-imagined solutions to complex, wicked, real-world problems.
How do you effect real change? Integrate your authentic self with a degree for world-building with our Masters in Transdisciplinary Analysis
Whether we are scientists, artists, humanists, or entrepreneurs, real change requires us to embrace uncertainty and seek answers with a different set of eyes and tools. Complex problems call for new ways of thinking.
The MA in Transdisciplinary Analysis is a degree program for shaping positive change. When you take on a transdisciplinary challenge, you expand your imagination and creativity to build positive futures. You become the person who makes sustainable change, transforms institutions, and scales solutions for the greater good. You learn to “unstick” dilemmas, so crises become opportunities.
Take a Transdisciplinary (TNDY) Course
Led by faculty from different disciplines, we offer a number of innovative and unique courses that allows students to collaborate and innovate around society’s most complex issues.
Tailor to Your Interests, Save Time and Costs
Build a dual or interfield degree with time and cost savings. We can help you integrate two different disciplinary degree programs by connecting program requirements with your interests and career plans while saving you time and lowering the cost of earning your degree.
Crossing Boundaries? Integrating Multiple Disciplines?
We offer two competitive fellowship awards for scholarly projects that blend and transcend disciplinary boundaries, and those that cross disciplines, institutions, and sectors in search of solutions to complex problems.
Participate in the Realizing Equity Research Symposium
Held annually, this resarch symposium showcases transdisciplinary approaches to transformative research centered on equity and justice. Connect with your peers and share your research with others.
We embrace the creative potential and integration that blending, transcending, and re-imagining disciplinary/departmental boundaries, perspectives, and research can provide a university.