Collaboration and language. A concern with the specialized modes of communication within different groups and fields of study. Classification and Taxonomy. Since reality is complex and confusing, we attempt to create order through grouping things. The characteristics and number of people affect societies in fundamental ways.
Resources are always a major problem.
We require certain resources to survive, but the process we use to get these resources has many implications. Toward an urban environment. We continue to move toward an urban world with high levels of production and extraction. This creates huge problems for all of us. We will visit these themes repeatedly in Human Societies, Environmental Science, Composition, and Seminar.