Learning Objectives

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

• Analyze the degree to which forms of human difference shape  personal experiences of and perspectives on the world.
• Analyze a contemporary global issue from a multidisciplinary perspective.
• Explain and be able to assess the relationship among assumptions, method, evidence, arguments, and theory in social and historical analysis.
• Understand different theories about human culture, social identity, economic entities, political systems, and other forms of social organization.
• Apply concepts about human and social behavior to particular questions or situations.
• Examine critically philosophical and other theoretical issues concerning the nature of reality, human experience, knowledge, value, and/or cultural production.
• Engage critically in the process of creative expression.