Social Scientific Approaches

(one unit to be taken during the first three years)

• Learning Objectives
• Guidelines
• Approved Courses

Learning Objectives

The social sciences provide systematic approaches to understanding relationships that arise among individuals, organizations, or institutions. Students in a course in the Social Scientific Approach to Knowing to acquire an understanding of theories about an individual or collective behavior within a social environment and how empirical evidence is used to develop and test those theories.

Guidelines

1. Courses in Social-Scientific Approaches
   
   1. explore assumptions embedded in social scientific theories and
   2. examine the importance of simplifying or describing observations of the world to construct a model of an individual or collective behavior.
2. Courses in Social-Scientific Approaches require students to apply a social scientific theory to understand individual or collective behavior.

Approved Courses

• COMM 156 Introduction to Interpersonal Communication
• COMM 160 Introduction to Organizational Communication
• COMM 181 Introduction to Online Communication
• ECON 101 Introduction to Markets and Macroeconomics
• ECON 170 Contemporary Economics
• GDS/IPE 211 Introduction to Global Development
• HON 214 Interrogating Inequality
• IPE 101 Power and Wealth in Global Affairs: Introduction to International Political Economy
• IPE 331 International Political Economy of Food and Agriculture
• PG 101 Introduction to United States Politics
• PG 102 Introduction to Comparative Politics
• PG 103 Introduction to International Relations
• PG 104 Introduction to Political Theory
• PHIL 106 Language, Knowledge, and Power
• PSYC 101 Introductory Psychology
• SOAN 101 Introduction to Sociology
• SOAN 230 Indigenous Peoples: Alternative Political Economies
• SOAN 250 Sociology of Science and Technology
• SOAN 301 Power and Inequality
• SOAN 320 Inequality and Crisis in the Neoliberal Era