Social and Behavioral Sciences Definition

Through study in the social and behavioral sciences, students gain an appreciation of human continuity and change. Students learn to analyze the past, develop insight into contemporary social life, and understand the impact of individual and social actions on the future. Students are encouraged to develop a sense of global responsibility toward humanity and the environment. Study in the social and behavioral sciences will help students to:

• gain insight into individual behavior;
• develop an understanding of their own society and the world as part of larger human experience in time and place;
• analyze social, political, cultural, historical, and economic institutions and relationships that both link and separate societies throughout the world;
• develop analytical, critical thinking, and communication skills necessary to understand and influence the world in which they live;
• comprehend methods of inquiry employed by social and behavioral scientists.

Students are expected to complete satisfactorily a minimum of three courses (9 semester credit hours), selected from at least two disciplines, to fulfill the Illinois Transferable General Education Core Curriculum (IAI GECC) social and behavioral science requirement.

The current iTransfer date and time is Saturday, July 04, 2009 at 06:12 PM.
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