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GEP 2009
SOCIAL SCIENCES
Requirement: (6 credit hours)
- A total of six credit hours from the university approved GEP Social Sciences course list.
- The selected courses must be from two different disciplines.
Double-counting:
- A course taken to satisfy a Major requirement may also satisfy this requirement if the course is on the approved GEP Social Sciences course list.
- A course that satisfies the Social Sciences requirement may also satisfy the Global Knowledge or U.S. Diversity co-requisite if the course also exists on either university approved GEP co-requisite course list.
Rationale:
The study of social sciences enables students to understand individual and collective human behavior by:
- exploring meaning within a variety of social, cultural, political, and economic contexts;
- analyzing the structures within which human goals are established and human choices are made; and
- applying theoretical and empirical models to specific cases.
Objectives for courses in the category of Social Sciences:
Each course in the Social Sciences category of the General Education Program will provide instruction and guidance that help students to:
- Examine at least one of the following: human behavior, culture, mental processes, organizational processes, or institutional processes; and
- Demonstrate how social scientific methods may be applied to the study of human behavior, culture, mental processes, organizational processes, or institutional processes; and
- Use theories or concepts of the social sciences to analyze and explain theoretical and/or real-world problems, including the underlying origins of such problems.
GEP Social Sciences Course List
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