This seminar focuses on how place in general and its innumerable instances from rooms and buildings, to streets, cities, fields, farms, and wilderness areas, to states and nations is an indispensable and ubiquitous instrument enabling us to change the world and make it habitable. Geographic topics include the distinctions between space and place, place and spatial interactions, the role of place in defining nature and culture, the local and global, and the connections of place and self. Geographically based ILS questions include the relationship of place to issues of power, morality, free will, objectivity, and the distinctions between rules and laws. Gives students the necessary physics background to form opinions on energy questions. The physical laws of thermodynamics, electricity, and magnetism, and nuclear physics in connection with energy related topics such as thermal pollution, fossil power, fission and fusion, nuclear power, and solar power.
Atomism is to an extent reductionist while systems analysis is generally holistic.
In the systems approach used here plants influence humans while humans influence plants. The lectures are related to the twentieth century human experiences. They are designed to be relevant biology for the humanities students with relevant humanities agriculturalists, to stimulate as well as to inform. Whenever humans are part of an investigation, scientists tend to overemphasize the actions of individual humans. They identify with the humans in the scientific model.