Learning Outcomes

Systematic Inquiry

• Explain and conduct empirical research to study human experience and behavior, both past and present.
• Utilize primary and secondary sources to demonstrate knowledge of past and present cultures of the world and issues affecting the global community.

• Examine major concepts, models and theories to interpret human experience within the context of historical, political, sociocultural and economic life.

Clear Communication

• Conceptualize and articulate important elements of selected disciplines within the social sciences through persuasive written and oral communication.

Health and Well-Being

• Gain an appreciation and understanding of the social sciences by which students recognize that “While we do not live in the past, the past lives in us.”

Socio-cultural Responsiveness

• Recognize and explain that documents and artifacts are art forms that record cultural change and serve as a moralizing influence.

Aesthetic Responsiveness

• Develop an appreciation of the fine arts through an interdisciplinary approach to the social sciences.

Christian Literacy and Life

• Critique the role of the Christian church in molding western thought and law, as well as instances when other regional world-views were adopted, embraced or discarded by the church.

Servant Leadership

• Apply examples from the social sciences of heroic actions, humility and grace to their own lives.