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Wicked Problems, Wolfpack Solutions

NC State multidisciplinary experience created for all incoming first-year and transfer students.

An Online Experience

Wicked Problems, Wolfpack Solutions is a special kind of multidisciplinary experience created for all incoming first-year and transfer students and their families.

Wicked Problems, Wolfpack Solutions

Wicked Problems, Wolfpack Solutions aims to encourage students to discover more about various disciplines, to connect with the broader NC State community, and to apply and reflect on what and how they’re learning.

The experience is packaged as an online course available in WolfWare, NC State’s suite of academic technologies, giving incoming students experience with the technologies they’ll use during their academic careers before they begin their first semester at NC State.

(Y)Our Health

The focus of Wicked Problems, Wolfpack Solutions 2023 is (Y)Our Health.

In each unit, we will pique student interest through a real-life situation, story or hook, and then offer wide-ranging multidisciplinary perspectives on that unit’s topic. Common threads through each unit will include: physical health, mental health, social justice, agency, academic, scholarly and community solutions, innovations, and opportunities.

The Future of Food course ran for five weeks during Summer Session II, June 27 through July 29, 2022, and again from December 12, 2022, through January 8, 2023, for incoming spring students. After finishing the course, students earned two (2) NC State credit hours at no cost. Yes, two free credits toward your degree.

The course is not required; however, we encourage students to take advantage of this extraordinary opportunity created just for incoming students.

Wicked Problems, Wolfpack Solutions aims to encourage students to discover more about various disciplines, to connect with the broader NC State community, and to Think and Do, applying and reflecting upon what they’re learning.