Undergraduate Education, Council on -Reports - 2007-2008
- General Education Program (GEP) Implementation Updates
Category: Social Sciences
CUE approved version for GEP 12-14-07
Social Sciences
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:
Each course in the social science category of the General Education Program will provide instruction and guidance that help students to:
1. examine at least one of the following: human behavior, culture, mental processes, organizational processes, or institutional processes; and
2. demonstrate how social scientific methods may be applied to the study of human behavior, culture, mental processes, organizational processes, or institutional processes; and
3. 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.