It is team-taught by some of Madison s finest professors, each of whom specialize in at least one world culture. Readings, often translated into English from some other language, engage topics of global cultural interactions. The students are introduced to a rich variety of world cultures and are provided analytic tools with which to study cultures. This course is a prerequisite for, and encourages students to consider earning, a Global Cultures certificate by the time they graduate. It also encourages students to participate in one or more of the University s many study-abroad programs.
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.