General Education Core - Social Sciences

Draws from social science, literature, real world events, and personal experience. Course explores the self in relation to social forces and processes.

Topics include the origin of law, basic legal theories, and relationships between law and morality, law and power, the individual and the state, and domestic and international laws.

A survey of the major world religions, along with their corresponding cultural frameworks. Explores the critical issues in the study of comparative religions.

Examines the application of basic psychological concepts to healthy styles of functioning in relationships, the adjustment to college life, academic challenges, communication skills, stress management, conflict management, and success in the workplace. Some of the subtopics covered include self-esteem, confidence, balancing home/college/work, and positive thinking.

The bewildering variety of models for self-identification in America has led to new ways to construct personal images. Students will study how people now create their own idea of the self by following models that have emerged in American culture in the past 30 years.