Required Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs)
Students will:
- describe major concepts and theories of at least one discipline in the social sciences.
- demonstrate an understanding of the methods social scientists use to explore social phenomena.
Requirements and Guidelines
- impart a knowledge of major concepts, models and issues of anthropology, economics, geography, history, political science, and/or sociology as recognized academic disciplines.
- provide an understanding of the methods used by social scientists to explore social phenomena including, when appropriate to the discipline, observation, hypothesis development, measurement and data collection, experimentation, evaluation of evidence, and employment of mathematical and interpretive analysis.
- If the course is not at the introductory level, it includes the above content in a form accessible to and effective for a student who has not already completed an introductory social science course.
Rubric/Assignment Samples
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