GOAL AREA 5: HISTORY AND THE SOCIAL AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES
Requirements
Two courses
Six credits
Goals
To increase students' knowledge of how historians and social and behavioral scientists discover, describe, and explain the behaviors and interactions among individuals, groups, institutions, events, and ideas. Knowledge of history and social and behavioral sciences will better equip students to understand themselves and the roles they play in addressing the issues facing humanity.
Critical Thinking
The practice of critical thinking skills used in history and the social and behavioral sciences, including gathering and applying factual information appropriately, analyzing logical connections, recognizing and articulating value assumptions made by ourselves and others.
Student Competencies
Students will be able to:
- employ the methods and data that historians and social and behavioral scientists use to investigate the human condition.
- examine social institutions and processes across a range of historical periods and cultures.
- use and critique alternative explanatory systems or theories.
- develop and communicate alternative explanations or solutions for contemporary social issues.
Courses that satisfy this goal area include
*ACCT 1100 Financial Literacy (3 credits)
ANTH 1100 Human Evolution (3 credits)
COMM 3110 Organizational Communication (3 credits)
COMM 3150 Gender Communication (3 credits)
COMM 3700 Persuasion and Communication (3 credits)
ECON 2000 Principles of Microeconomics (3 credits)
ECON 2100 Principles of Macroeconomics (3 credits)
ECON 2150 Interdependence of the Hawaiian Economy and the Environment: Field Projects (1-3 credits)
ENVR 3730 Sustainable Communities: Local Indigenous Perspective (3 credits)
ENVR 3740 Environment, Wellness & the Sacred Connection to Place (3 credits)
EQTY 2500 Introduction to Equity (3 credits)
GEOG 1224 Introduction to Map Use (3 credits)
GEOG 2400 Introduction to Planning (3 credits)
GEOG 3400 Economic Geography (3 credits)
GEOG 3410 Geography of North America (3 credits)
GEOG 3810 Geography of Europe (3 credits)
GEOG 3870 Planning for Sustainable Cities (3 credits)
HST1114
HST1115
HST1304
HST1305
HST2500
HST2610
HST2660
HST2700
HST3208
HST3409
HST3419
HUM2150
INST1107
INST1202
INST2201
INST2202
INST3170
INST3307
INST3317
INST3730
INST3740
INST3890
LEAD 2520 Topics: History of Leadership (3 credits)
MASC1100
POL1200
POL3200
PSY1100
SOC1104
SOC2240
SOC3300
SOC3320
*TADT 2100 Impact Of Technology, Art & Design (3 credits)
OTHERS:
All-University course numbers 1953 and 2953 are available to any department for use as study-travel courses, subject to approval, and will satisfy this goal area.
*This course will satisfy Liberal Education at BSU, but does not qualify for inclusion in the Minnesota Transfer Curriculum as currently interpreted by Minnesota State, and may not be accepted as a Liberal Education course at other Minnesota State institutions or the University of Minnesota.