Calhoun Honors Discovery Program Courses

Fall 2025 Courses

*Meeting Times: All CHDP courses will be asynchronous. Instructors will provide just-in-time open-to-all, face-to-face instruction based on student needs and requests as they emerge through the online interactions. Times will be adjusted to availability of students for each face to face instruction topic. Digital discussion and interaction forums will also enable peer to peer learning.  Student cohorts will progress through each module together through weekly deadlines that will ensure course completion in 5 weeks and facilitate peer to peer learning.

UH 4855 Calhoun Transdisciplinary Fusion Studio

CRNs: 90672, 90673 (Seniors can choose a section and will be reassigned to the correct one after teams are created)

Friday 8:00 – 10:50 am, Honors College Studios, Squires 134
3 credits

CRN 90672 – Professor Ruiz Geli
CRN 90673 – Professor Kretser

This studio course is an Advanced study of transdisciplinary, collaborative design processes to address real-world problems in sociotechnical innovation provided by clients from industry, business, government, and nonprofit organizations. Student teams will be engaged in developing impactful approaches to address real-world problems using Systems thinking and the Collaboration Sociotechnical Innovation Model (CSIM) Four Set framework. Other activities in this class include (but do not exclude) the following: Systems building; project leadership and management, including resource allocation and scheduling; team management; value propositions; project pitches; and rapid prototyping.

Having successfully completed this course, students will be able to:

• Use systems thinking & CSIM to develop impactful approaches to address real-world problems in collaborative sociotechnical innovation;
• Identify stakeholders and analyze their most important requirements in collaborative sociotechnical innovation;
• Leverage their own and their colleagues’ current skills in collaborative sociotechnical innovation;
• Engage in strategic transdisciplinary team building processes; and
• Produce and test rapid prototypes using quantitative and qualitative evaluation methods.