Focus: Something wicked this way comes...
The Wicked Problems Course project is a collaborative effort from the Graduate Studies and Postdoctoral Affairs (GSPA) and the Teaching Innovation Incubator (TII). The project addresses a key strategic plan objective – to advance interdisciplinarity – and in doing so, leverages another strategic plan objective – to promote quality and innovation in learning.
This new project will build graduate student capacities to conceive, organize, and deliver novel programming about a complex, global challenge within an interdisciplinary paradigm. It will expose graduate students to scholars with diverse perspectives and approaches for solving the same issue, and develop their skills for working across disciplines. The result will be unique professional development opportunities for graduate students and learning experiences for undergraduate students.
The course is being developed through the TII to harness expertise from across the university: the Centre for Teaching Excellence in interdisciplinary course design, the Centre for Extended Learning for online pedagogy, and multiple academic support units and faculties to address administrative challenges. The course will be offered with online modules, maximizing the value of the cutting edge content generated by emerging researchers.
The first iteration of this project will be a course on climate change, to be offered in winter 2023. The course will also provide a roadmap for the development of future interdisciplinary courses.
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