Social Science

MISSION STATEMENT

The mission of the Social Sciences program is to serve the academic, occupational, and transfer needs of TCC students. The five disciplines within the Social Sciences program (Anthropology, History, Political Science, Psychology, and Sociology) are dedicated to the study of the empirical or scientific investigation of human behavior, both in terms of the individual and the social group. The Social Sciences program encourages students to investigate human existence from a variety of theoretical, methodological, and cross-cultural perspectives.

PROGRAM LEARNING OUTCOMES (PLOs)

Upon completion of the Social Sciences courses, students will be able to:

  1. Demonstrate knowledge of some major empirical findings of the social sciences (COK).
  2. Demonstrate an understanding of some of the concepts, theories, and methods used within the social sciences to understand human behavior/events (COK, CRT).
  3. Objectively identify some social variables that have shaped one's own point of view (COK, COM, CRT).
  4. Engage with or accurately represent a point of view that is different from one's own (COK, COM, CRT, LWC, RES).
  5. Apply concepts and tools from the social sciences to explain or analyze a social phenomenon, process, event, conflict, or issue (COM, CRT, IIT).
  6. Evaluate the quality/credibility of information from various kinds of sources (academic, journalistic, popular media) (CRT, IIT).
  7. Present social science information according to appropriate academic standards (COM, IIT).

Five Year Plan

Assessment

2012-13

2013-14

2014-15

2015-16