# Transdisciplinaryelectives

**Source**: https://www.uts.edu.au/for-students/transdisciplinary-innovation/transdisciplinary-electives
**Parent**: https://www.uts.edu.au/courses/bachelor-of-communication-in-digital-and-social-media-bachelor-of-creative-intelligence-and-innovation

The award-winning Transdisciplinary Electives Program helps you differentiate yourself, which is why eight electives are embedded in every undergraduate degree.\* All you need to do is choose which one inspires you the most. In each TD elective subject, you’ll work on a real-world challenge presented by an industry partner organisation.

\* Excludes students concurrently enrolled in the Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation.

### What's different about a Transdisciplinary Elective subject?

In each of the eight Transdisciplinary electives you will:

- Work on complex real-world challenges with an industry partner
- Collaborate in teams with students from all faculties across UTS, leading to breakthrough ideas
- Implement hands-on transdisciplinary methods and insights from different disciplines
- Experience transdisciplinary learning with a different approach
- Develop core skills in responding to challenges, working with others and communicating your ideas (traits highly desired by employers).

### Why is it valuable to work with industry in my degree?

Students who complete a Transdisciplinary Elective subject at UTS have a competitive advantage from:

- Working on a real project with industry professionals that you can add to your resume, LinkedIn or professional portfolio
- A strong example of collaboration, problem solving and project delivery for stakeholders that you can use in future job interviews
- A better understanding of organisations' expectations, problems, opportunities and workplace dynamics
- Valuable insights into career pathways, sometimes outside the box of your main discipline of study
- Making lifelong connections with students and academics across the disciplines at UTS and expanding your professional networks through the industry visitors to the course.

### What do I need to know?

Transdisciplinary Electives are all about teamwork and real-world projects, so to help you get the most out of them, we’ve added a few important things to consider when you enrol, based on what past students told us worked best.

- Online: three electives have limited online tutorials; all others are in-person
- Block mode: four electives are available in block mode as well as the standard 12-week format
- Enrolment: strictly closes on the first day of Week 3 (or Day 1 for block mode subjects). If enrolling via an e-request, make sure to attend your classes as early as possible and no later than Week 3 to ensure you don't miss any assessments
- Class frequency: electives run either weekly or fortnightly
- Attendance: each elective has an attendance requirement; please see the handbook description for each subject.

### Transdisciplinary elective subjects

You can take the following transdisciplinary electives  at 6 or 8 credit points.

| Subject Code and Name | What's it about? | Mode |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 95002 – Reframing, Remixing, Reimagining Society | Work with UNICEF Australia to challenge your assumptions, remix ideas across disciplines, and imagine fairer futures in the face of climate change. | Fortnightly in Autumn & Block mode in July. |
| 95003 – Sustainability in an Interconnected World | Collaborate with industry and engage with the community to understand sustainability in context and design regenerative solutions for change. | Weekly in Spring & Block mode in February.  Limited online options available in Spring. |
| 95004 – Technologies Reimagined in a Complex World | Partner with ServiceRocket, a tech-enabled services company, to explore from a systems perspective how everyday technologies can be reimagined for the future of careers, organisations and communities. | Weekly in Spring   with limited online options. |
| 95005 – Shaping Technologies that Shape Us | Team up with Microsoft to explore diverse perspectives on the impact of AI and influence how we develop these technologies for the common good. | Weekly in Autumn & Block mode in July.  Limited online options available in Autumn. |
| 95006 – Envisioning Futures Worth Wanting | Work with the City of Sydney to explore what life could be like in a thriving, trustful, just and resilient urban future, learning how to analyse, imagine, and describe present-day realities and future possibilities. | Fortnightly in Autumn & Block mode in August. |
| 95007 – Pathways to Societal Transitions | In partnership with Lane Cove Council, research how data and AI infrastructures (such as data centres) shape communities and environments across Sydney, and co-design pathways for sustainable and inclusive data futures. | Fortnightly in Spring. |
| 95008 – Transdisciplinary Action Lab | Collaborate with Miro, an online collaborative whiteboard platform, to explore new ways of working, test your ideas in action, and build an entrepreneurial mindset for tackling complex challenges. | Fortnightly in Autumn. |
| 95009 – Change-Making for Social Impact | Experiment, imagine, and play together with our industry partner (TBC) to explore the deep connection between personal transformation and systems evolution. | Weekly in Spring  Block mode in December. |

## Discover our electives

The UTS Handbook outlines what our Transdisciplinary electives are about, when they are offered, and how many credit points each is worth.

[See 6 credit point electives](https://coursehandbook.uts.edu.au/aos/2025/CBK92069)
[See 8 credit point electives](https://coursehandbook.uts.edu.au/aos/2025/CBK92070)