Departments of the Faculty of Systems and Nexus Studies

Each department is a coherent body of two to five disciplines, with the courses whose primary discipline is there and the pathways that run through them.

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Systems and Nexus Studies: departments, disciplines and courses. Drawn as coupled loops.

Open, 3
In preparation, 12
Approved for authoring, 4

From the Academy atlas and the curriculum: primary courses only; numbers mark departments.

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departments: 2
disciplines: 8
courses open now, 12 in preparation: 3
courses approved for authoring: 4

The departments in brief.

The Faculty of Systems and Nexus Studies has 2 departments and 8 disciplines. Department pages sit at a stable address under the faculty, so departments can be reorganised later without breaking the addresses of disciplines.

2 departments at a glance.

Numbered as on the faculty figure above. Each card counts the department's disciplines and the courses whose primary discipline is there.

Department of Systemic Risk and Complexity

Systemic, compound and cascading risk, complex systems modelling and global catastrophic risks.

Department of Nexus-Based Risk Management

The NRM paradigm, its scope ladder and method cycle, and the water-energy-food-ecosystems nexus.

Terms used on this page.

Term	Definition
Department	A body of two to five related disciplines within Faculty of Systems and Nexus Studies.
Discipline	One subject of study with its own scope, courses, labs and key terms.

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Each department page sets out its disciplines, courses and pathways, with the faculty's twin builder.

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