Learning Objectives for General Education Social Sciences Courses
Social Science courses enable students to demonstrate:
an understanding that human conduct and behavior more generally are subject
to scientific inquiry
an understanding of the difference between rigorous and systematic thinking
and uncritical thinking about social phenomena
an understanding of the kinds of questions social scientists ask and the
ways they go about answering these questions
knowledge of the major concepts, models and issues of at least one discipline
in the social sciences
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