Social Studies / Social Sciences
Introduction to Psychology
PREREQUISITE: NONE
COLLEGE: ASU COURSE PSY 101
CONCURRENT CREDIT COURSE
Major areas of theory and research in psychology. Requires participation in department-sponsored research or an educationally-equivalent alternative activity.
Buried Cities and Lost Tribes
CREDIT TYPE: ELECTIVE
HIGH SCHOOL: HUMANITIES INDEPENDENT STUDY
COLLEGE: ASU COURSE ASB 222
CONCURRENT CREDIT COURSE
Archaeology through its most important discoveries.
Economics: A Social Issues Perspective
CREDIT TYPE: ELECTIVE
PREREQUISITE: NONE
HIGH SCHOOL: PARTICULAR TOPICS IN ECONOMICS
COLLEGE: ASU COURSE SWU 181
CONCURRENT CREDIT COURSE
Global History to 1500
CREDIT TYPE: SOCIAL STUDIES
HIGH SCHOOL: ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL HISTORY
COLLEGE: ASU COURSE HST 100
CONCURRENT CREDIT COURSE
Learn about the ideas, events, and people from the across the world from the first civilizations to the Mongol invasions of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. You will explore the rise of civilizations across the globe and their impacts on the future of humanity while focusing on the cultural, political, and economic exchanges between different peoples and their impacts on their societies.
Intro to Social Work
CREDIT TYPE: ELECTIVE
HIGH SCHOOL: GOVERNMENT SERVICE, OTHER
COLLEGE: ASU COURSE SWU 171
CONCURRENT CREDIT COURSE
Gain a descriptive and analytical historical perspective of the profession of social work, of social problems, and of the social welfare system.This course will help you if you are considering this major.
Intro to Sociology
CREDIT TYPE: ELECTIVE
PREREQUISITE: CREDIT IS ALLOWED FOR ONLY SOC 101 OR 301
HIGH SCHOOL: SOCIOLOGY
COLLEGE: ASU COURSE SOC 101
CONCURRENT CREDIT COURSE
Learn about the fundamentals of sociology, organization of human groups and society, processes of interaction, and social change. You will also review scientific and humanistic approaches to the study of social groups, economy, culture and factors relating to social interaction in everyday life.
Introductory Ethics: A Social Issues Perspectives
CREDIT TYPE: ELECTIVE
PREREQUISITE: CREDIT IS ALLOWED FOR ONLY SWU 183 OR 194 (INTRO ETHICS: SOCIAL ISSUES PERSPECTIVE)
HIGH SCHOOL: PUBLIC POLICY
COLLEGE: ASU COURSE SWU 183
CONCURRENT CREDIT COURSE
Introductory exploration of ethics from a historical and multicultural perspective viewed through the lens of contemporary social issues.
Modern Social Problems
CREDIT TYPE: ELECTIVE
HIGH SCHOOL: UNITED STATES AND WORLD AFFAIRS
COLLEGE: ASU COURSE SOC 241
CONCURRENT CREDIT COURSE
SPECIAL NOTE: COURSE CONTAINS MATURE OR SENSITIVE CONTENT.
This course focuses on race relations, poverty, unemployment, and other current issues. Instructors may add additional content related to social problems related to research areas of their specialty.
Racial and Ethnic Relations
CREDIT TYPE: ELECTIVE
HIGH SCHOOL: US ETHNIC STUDIES
COLLEGE: ASU COURSE SOC 270
CONCURRENT CREDIT COURSE
Problems of minorities in heterogeneous societies. Evaluates theories of prejudice and research dealing with discrimination, desegregation, and assimilation.
US History 1865 to present
CREDIT TYPE: SOCIAL STUDIES
HIGH SCHOOL: MODERN US HISTORY
COLLEGE: ASU COURSE HST 110
CONCURRENT CREDIT COURSE
In this class, you will explore the impact of important legislative and judicial decisions that altered the course of the nation and attempt to understand how the post-Civil War history of the United States can be told through a lens of legal history.
US History to 1865
CREDIT TYPE: SOCIAL STUDIES
HIGH SCHOOL: EARLY US HISTORY
COLLEGE: ASU COURSE HST 109
CONCURRENT CREDIT COURSE
Examine the interaction of diverse groups of people on the North American continent. Through the clash of cultures, both between Europeans and Natives, as well as between different groups of European colonists, this course will help you establish how and why these interactions resulted in the foundation of the American nation.
World History since 1500
CREDIT TYPE: SOCIAL STUDIES
PREREQUISITE: CREDIT IS ALLOWED FOR ONLY HST 101 OR SGS 111
HIGH SCHOOL: MODERN WORLD HISTORY
COLLEGE: ASU COURSE HST 101
CONCURRENT CREDIT COURSE
You will survey Africa, the Americas, and Eurasia focusing especially on changes in communication, communities, demography, economics, environment, politics, religion, technology, warfare, and women.