Sociology is the scientific study of humans living with one another in a society. Basic social concepts studied include: social organization, culture, collective behavior, deviant behavior, stratification, population, and social institutions such as family, religion, and education. Students are exposed to fundamental theories, methods, and techniques used by sociologists.
- Teacher: Dayle Jackson
An introduction to the scientific study and interpretation of human behavior. The topics include: scope and goals of psychology, learning, perception, sensation, motivation, emotions, physiological basis for behavior, mental illness, psychotherapy, and personality development. The course reflects the increasing attention being paid to experimental procedures, laboratory techniques and research findings.
- Teacher: Tara Tregembo
This course provides a general introduction to the foundational skills of the Humanities: observation, description, analysis, and explanation. Students will consider evidence from fields including architecture, music, advertising, cartography, and literature, both fiction and non-fiction. Some evidence will be observed by way of fieldwork, with visits to sites and events of cultural significance. Emphasis will be on how meaning is constructed and conveyed rather that what meaning is attributed to any given piece of evidence.
- Teacher: John Austin
This course covers the political, social, and cultural history of the United States from its colonial founding through the Reconstruction period. It examines the clash of European and native civilizations; development of colonies; growing independence of the colonies; revolution and the formation of a national government, nation building; sectional conflict; the Civil War; and rebuilding the nation after the war.
- Teacher: Kara Johnson
This course covers the evolution of leading civilizations and the interaction among different peoples and societies around the globe. It examines the rise of the west as a dominant influence on the world; global change in Afria and Asia; industrilization and imperialism throughout the 19th century; major developments in the history of Latin America from its colonial period; the crises in the west during the 20th century; the rise and fall of the Soviet Union; decolonization; and the major developments in Asia, especially Japan, during the 20th century.
- Teacher: Kara Johnson
The Microeconomics course is designed to provide a study of individual markets in our economy. We will examine price-output behavior in purely competitive, oligopolistic, monopolistically competitve, and monopolistic markets. Other topics reviewed in this course include: Resource markets, concentration ratios, labor and unions, pollution, agriculture, and international trade. In summary, our studies will emphasize how households and firms make decisions and interact within the economic markets in which we live. This course fulfills a social science requirement.
- Teacher: Dennis Mackey
This course covers the concepts of emergency management and crisis planning as an activity to anticipate, prevent, prepare for, resond to and recover from various incidents. It examines the critical role emergency management and planning plays in protecting the social and economic stability of our communities.
- Teacher: Becky Bramlett