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Social Sciences Courses

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  • Learning Objectives for General Education Social Sciences Courses
  • Social Science courses enable students to demonstrate:

    1. an understanding that human conduct and behavior more generally are subject to scientific inquiry
    2. an understanding of the difference between rigorous and systematic thinking and uncritical thinking about social phenomena
    3. an understanding of the kinds of questions social scientists ask and the ways they go about answering these questions
    4. knowledge of the major concepts, models and issues of at least one discipline in the social sciences
    5. an understanding of the methods social scientists use to explore social phenomena, such as observation, hypothesis development, measurement and data collection, experimentation, evaluation of evidence, employment of mathematical analysis, employment of interpretive analysis

 

 

 
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