A Core Curriculum in Complex Systems Science Education

Call for proposals for a core curriculum in complex systems

Jeffrey Johnson and Mario Rasetti, 25th April 2008

Members of the CS community are invited to suggest things that should go into a core curriculum in complex systems science. Currently the general headings are:

Mathematics Statistics Data Computation Simulation Physics

These are intended to be things that every competent complex systems scientist should know, e.g. what a power law is, what percolation means, why simulation is useful - or not, the nature of data, etc.

Although domain knowledge could be part of the core curriculum (especially biology), in the first instance we want to focus on general principles and knowledge that applies to all domains.

The Society intends to synthesise your contributions and propose a draft of the Core Curriculm to its Council at ECCS'08 in September.

When adopted the core curriculum will become a part of a new European PhD in Complex Systems that we hope will be implemented over the next few months. To be given this award students must have an approved PhD from a an approved institution, demonstrate mastery of the core curiculum, and have undertaken approaved studies at European institutions.

This page will be updated as your suggestions come in.