Social Science

The Social Sciences Department empowers students to become life-long learners and critical thinkers by developing their analytical skills, teaching from a global perspective and promoting creative problem-solving skills. ​ Significant learning emerges from some combination of our cognitive, social/affective and linguistic skills. As a result, instructors should explore where a student is developmentally in regard to each domain (Teemant & Pinnegar, 2019). Through this, students in the Social & Behavioral sciences can gain a global perspective and problem solve.  ​           

1. ​Define the time period of Jim Crow laws and statues that legalized racial segregation;  
2. Describe how race is a historically and socially constructed concept;  
3. Explain how structural and institutional racism in the United States shaped “de jure/de facto” distinction in national, state and local government;   
4. Recognize how race, ethnicity, social class, gender, and sexual orientation continues to hamper social mobility in the United States;  
5. Identify and assess the role various movement political strategies, including legal challenges, direct action, and community organizing played in Civil Rights;  
6. Write a clear and concise history essay using both secondary and primary sources on the Civil Rights Movement.  ​