The Institute for Advanced Systems Studies (IAS) created 14 transdisciplinary courses funded by three years of grants from the Advanced Projects Unit of the Chancellors Office for the CSU System. Although the Chancellor’s Office denied their offering as the intended major due mostly to lack of evidence that students were clamoring for such a major, it reviewed and permitted the offering of the courses as a Minor. Nominally in the Biological Sciences Department for administrative convenience, the courses are taught by IAS Faculty Fellows from several departments in the Colleges of Engineering and Science at CPP.