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Area of Study - Humanities & Social Science (MET.HSS)
If you are unsure about choosing your college major, you can select an Exploratory Area of Study. This gives you the opportunity to explore academic options before deciding on a particular major. You'll also have the chance to work closely with an academic counselor to weigh the benefits of each major and develop a personalized education plan that fits your interests. Classes within each area of study have been carefully designed to allow you the chance to explore and move you forward toward your further educational and career goals.
In the Humanities and Social Sciences Exploratory Area of Study, you'll find majors that invite you to consider perspectives on humanity and develop your creative and critical thinking skills. Within the Humanities and Social Sciences, you can explore art in hands-on studios, take your turn as an on-air personality in the broadcasting area, enhance your social media skills in communications classes, or develop your writing, thinking, and understanding of the world around us through classes in criminal justice, psychology, sociology, philosophy, or literature,
For the Humanities and Social Sciences Exploratory Area of Study, you can choose any of the courses listed below, as each of these courses will count toward the majors in this area.
FIRST YEAR
First Semester
Hours
ENG-119
Composition I Pathway
ENG-119
Composition I Pathway
Students will study the writing process by reading essays illustrating a variety of rhetorical strategies, analyzing texts, and writing, revising, and editing short essays. Course is for students who have assessed into developmental English, receiving supplemental instruction for course completion.
Course Outline
OR
ENG-120
Composition I
ENG-120
Composition I
Students will study the writing process by reading essays that illustrate a variety of rhetorical strategies, analyzing writing tasks and texts, and writing, revising, and editing short essays.
Course Outline
3.0
COM-111
Intro to Speech Communication
COM-111
Intro to Speech Communication
Focuses on the fundamental principles and methods of selection, analyzing, organizing, developing and communicating information, evidence, and points of view to audiences.
Course Outline
3.0
PSY-271
Intr/Psychology
PSY-271
Intr/Psychology
Focuses on psychology as a science, introducing Concepts, research methods and research in a variety of subfields, including neuroscience, sensation and perception, consciousness, learning and memory, cognition, motivation and emotion, development, personality, disorders and therapy, and social psychology.
Course Outline
3.0
SOC-280
Introduction to Sociology
SOC-280
Introduction to Sociology
Study of human interaction focusing on social influences shaping personality, structure and dynamics of human society. Topics include: sociological perspective, culture, society, social interaction; social change in global perspective; socialization; families; social class; and social stratification; race and ethnicity; and deviance.
Course Outline
3.0
ESC-102
Weather and Climate
ESC-102
Weather and Climate
This course emphasizes the dynamics of the atmosphere with focuses on atmospheric evolution, seasonal controls of climate, human impacts, atmospheric humidity, air pressure, severe weather, and climate classification. Extensive use of Internet resources and software will be required.
Course Outline
4.0
HIS-156
History of the U.S. II
HIS-156
History of the U.S. II
Views U.S. History since the end of Reconstruction with emphasis on how the domestic and international conflicts helped shape our modern society.
Course Outline
3.0
HUM-150
Humanities Through the Arts
HUM-150
Humanities Through the Arts
Students will survey the human condition as revealed through the arts, including an examination of painting, sculpture, architecture, literature, drama, film, photography, and music.
Course Outline
3.0
PHI-280
Ethics
PHI-280
Ethics
Introduction to issues and theories of ethics. Includes survey of major value systems and contemporary issues.
Course Outline
3.0
Semester Totals
25.0
Total Program Hours
25.0
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