Undergraduate Catalog 2024-2025

Social Sciences (Social Sciences)

Orienting Question: How do I understand human experiences and connections?

Career-Ready Competencies: Intercultural Competence, Perspective-Taking, Persuasion

USG Core Learning Outcome: Students will effectively analyze the complexity of human behavior, and how historical, economic, political, social, or geographic relationships develop, persist, or change.

GCSU Core Learning Outcome: Students will be able to interpret social science research from various sources.

Required Coursework:

Satisfactorily complete one of the following courses. HIST 2111 or HIST 2112 will only satisfy this requirement if it was not used to fulfill the Political Science and U.S. History (Citizenship) requirement.

ANTH 1102Introduction to Anthropology

3

ECON 2100Economics and Society

3

ECON 2105Principles of Macroeconomics

3

ECON 2106Principles of Microeconomics

3

GEOG 1101Intro to Human Geography

3

GEOG 1102World Regional Geography

3

HIST 1111Survey of World Hist/Civ I

3

HIST 1112Survey of World Hist/Civ II

3

HIST 2111The United States to 1877

3

HIST 2112The United States Since 1877

3

IDST 2050Sustainability

3

PSYC 1101Intro to General Psychology

3

SOCI 1101Introduction to Sociology

3

Total Credit Hours:3