These four categories "Arts", "Science", "Civics" and "Commerce" represent general courses of study (or fields of inquiry) rather than any specific kind of academic project or product.

Scholarly excellence, within a particular discipline is crucial and appreciating where multiple disciplines overlap is fertile ground for cultivating innovative insights. Integration's key! As an enrolled contestant, integrate your research passion - your primarily preferred field of inquiry - with other fields that you perceive as sharing similar content, comparable contexts, common processes, etc.

"Arts" courses in the Language Arts such as critical and creative writing (e.g., articulate an insight and/or tell a good story) as well as in the Graphic Arts (e. g., a compelling eco-footprint image or engaging image-rendering for eco-crises computer games) as well as in the Architectural and Design Arts allow for multiple opportunities for self-expression from an ecosystemically-sensible perspective.

"Science" courses: Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics, Engineering, Information Systems Design, etc. offer a rich array of opportunities for exploring ecosystems, gaining insight into their importance and a greater understanding of how they function as well as how such an understanding can help ensure sustainability and address the challenges of emergent eco-crises.

"Civics" courses: Social Studies, Government, Law, History, Psychology, etc. provide opportunities for understanding the design and development of sustainable human activity systems and the effective management of societal changes. Our human role within the ecosystems that sustain us and enable all life on earth can be better recognized by knowledgeable efforts to improve the quality of public discourse.

"Commerce" course-work provides immediate relevance to current events and offers multiple options for studying home-economics in light of understanding current emergent eco-crises. Students envisioning career-paths can increase their future civic and market value by preparing to address complex challenges like the convergence of global climate-change and peak-oil or the full costs of gasoline/alternate fuels to transport basic goods (food) and services (getting oneself back and forth to school or work).

Remember - from a systems view, the realm where categories overlap is most interesting.