Human Behavior and Social Processes (HBS)
(3 credits)
Students must complete one 3-credit course.
Courses in this area:
- Develop an understanding of how factors such as market forces, politics, demographics, physical environment, and culture affect individual behavior and thinking.
- Examine political, economic, and social structures and the interplay between the individual and society.
- Explore the ways in which the individual is an agent in shaping and understanding his or her own experiences.
- Consider the ways in which individual and social roles and identities are socially constructed.
- Show how the results of social research can be used to effect social change.
- Teach the differences between and appropriate uses of qualitative and quantitative research methods.
- Investigate the ways in which scientific inquiry is value-laden.
- Help students understand the ways in which the various social sciences inform one another.
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| BI-111 | Social Biology | 3 |
| BI-125 | Women in Science | 3 |
| BT-101 | Introduction to Forensic Sciences | 4 |
| CD-100 | Introduction to Human Communication and its Disorders | 3 |
| CJ-101 | Introduction to Criminal Justice | 3 |
| CJ-215 | Art Crimes | 3 |
| CM-100 | Intro to Mass Communication | 3 |
| CM-103 | Survey of Radio and Television | 3 |
| CM-180 | Introduction to Advertising | 3 |
| CM-213 | Gender and the Media | 3 |
| CM-240 | Principles of Public Relations Practices | 3 |
| CM-384 | Media Criticism | 3 |
| CM-400 | Advertising and Public Relations Research | 3 |
| CM-405 | Mass Communication Research | 3 |
| CM-416 | Media Law and Ethics | 3 |
| EC-110 | Introduction to Microeconomics | 3 |
| EC-120 | Introduction to Macroeconomics | 3 |
| ED-149 | Introduction to the Teaching Profession Middle/Secondary School | 3 |
| ED-150 | Introduction to the Teaching Profession | 3 |
| ED-160 | Early Childhood Education Today | 3 |
| ED-305 | Teaching Adult ESL and SIFE | 3 |
| ED-339 | Children's Literature: Multicultural Literature for PK-9 | 3 |
| EN-217 | Introduction to Narrative Studies of Health and Medicine | 3 |
| EN-358 | Disability Stories, Disability Studies | 3 |
| ET-100 | Introduction to Ethnic Studies | 3 |
| GE-102 | Human Geography | 3 |
| GE-250 | Urban Geography | 3 |
| GE-285 | Sustainable Communities | 3 |
| HE-220 | Mental Health Education | 3 |
| HI-216 | Labor, Capital, and Power in United States History | 3 |
| HI-218 | US Constitutional History I | 3 |
| HI-219 | US Constitutional History II | 3 |
| HI-228 | Currency, Commodities, and Crashes: Global Economic History, 1500-2000 | 3 |
| HI-265 | Land and Power in North America | 3 |
| HI-322 | Nationalism | 3 |
| HI-334 | Environmental Crisis and Management in China | 3 |
| HR-100 | Introduction to Human Rights and Social | 3 |
| IS-160 | Introduction to Gerontology | 3 |
| PB-200 | Introduction to Psychobiology | 4 |
| PH-100 | Introduction to Philosophy | 3 |
| PH-130 | Ethics: Human Conduct & Values | 3 |
| PH-131 | Medical Ethics | 3 |
| PH-133 | Social and Political Ethics | 3 |
| PH-134 | Computing Ethics | 3 |
| PH-152 | Philosophy of Love and Sex | 3 |
| PH-206 | Animal Ethics | 3 |
| PH-228 | Bioethics | 3 |
| PH-231 | Philosophy of Law | 3 |
| PH-242 | Race, Nation, Class, Gender and Sexuality | 3 |
| PH-254 | Feminist Theory | 3 |
| PH-260 | Philosophy of Science | 3 |
| PH-315 | Moral Psychology | 3 |
| PH-328 | Comparative Ethics | 3 |
| PO-110 | American Government | 3 |
| PO-120 | Global Politics | 3 |
| PO-150 | Foundations of Legal Studies | 3 |
| PO-203 | Gender, War and Peace | 3 |
| PO-204 | Women in Politics | 3 |
| PO-205 | Poverty and Development | 3 |
| PO-213 | The Modern Presidency | 3 |
| PO-215 | State and Local Government | 3 |
| PO-216 | Political Parties and Interest Groups | 3 |
| PO-217 | The U.S. Congress | 3 |
| PO-220 | European Politics | 3 |
| PO-221 | Asian Politics | 3 |
| PO-222 | Latin American Politics | 3 |
| PO-224 | Middle Eastern Politics | 3 |
| PO-230 | Campaigns and Elections | 3 |
| PO-240 | The United Nations and Global Governance | 3 |
| PO-243 | City Politics | 3 |
| PO-250 | Doing Political Science: an Introduction To Research Methodology | 4 |
| PO-262 | Principles of US Public Policy | 3 |
| PO-265 | Racial and Ethnic Politics | 3 |
| PO-301 | International Law | 3 |
| PO-311 | Environmental Politics and Policy | 3 |
| PO-312 | Health Politics and Policy | 3 |
| PO-334 | Environmental Crisis and Management in China | 3 |
| PO-380 | American Foreign Policy Since the Cold War | 3 |
| PS-101 | General Psychology | 3 |
| PS-201 | Career Exploration in Psych | 3 |
| PS-210 | Developmental Psychology | 3 |
| PS-240 | Introduction to Abnormal Psychology | 3 |
| PS-310 | Development of Exceptional Children/Youth | 3 |
| PS-318 | Behavior Management Techniques | 3 |
| PS-326 | Psychological Distress and Well-Being | 3 |
| PS-330 | Theories of Personality | 3 |
| PS-355 | Social and Personality Development | 3 |
| PS-365 | Cultural Psychology | 3 |
| PS-385 | Motivation | 3 |
| PS-391 | Clinical Psychology | 3 |
| SO-100 | Introduction to Sociology: Exploring Our Social World | 3 |
| SO-190 | Sport and Society | 3 |
| SO-200 | Contemporary Social Problems | 3 |
| SO-201 | Prejudice, Privilege, and Power | 3 |
| SO-207 | First Generation to College: Campus Diversity and College Inequality | 3 |
| SO-215 | Medical Sociology | 3 |
| SO-220 | Sociology of the Family | 3 |
| SO-230 | Political Sociology | 3 |
| SO-235 | Music and Social Change | 3 |
| SO-250 | Sociology of Religion | 3 |
| SO-255 | Sociology of Disability | 3 |
| SO-285 | Race, Class and Gender | 3 |
| SO-295 | Sociology of Death & Dying | 3 |
| SO-303 | Environmental Sociology | 3 |
| SO-305 | Applied Sociology | 3 |
| SO-312 | Youth, Race, and Public Space | 3 |
| SO-318 | Worcester and Its Discontents | 3 |
| SO-340 | Social Psychology | 3 |
| SO-350 | Wealth, Poverty, and Power | 3 |
| SO-355 | Gender and Sexuality | 3 |
| SO-360 | Urban Sociology | 3 |
| SO-425 | Global Capitalism | 3 |
| SP-293 | Health and the Latino Community | 3 |
| SP-315 | Health and the Latino Community | 3 |
| UR-101 | Introduction to Urban Studies | 3 |
| UR-103 | Introduction to Women's Studies | 3 |
| UR-150 | Introduction to City Research | 3 |
| UR-201 | Introduction to Urban Policy | 3 |
| UR-214 | Urban Demography | 3 |
| UR-230 | Technology, Public Policy and Urban Society | 3 |
| UR-240 | Introduction to Qualitative Research Methods for the Social Sciences | 3 |
| UR-270 | Leadership in Nonprofit and Public Organizations | 3 |
| UR-290 | Gender and the City | 3 |
| UR-311 | Urban Politics and Policies | 3 |
| UR-331 | Crime and the City | 3 |
| UR-380 | Public Policy and Cultural Diversity | 3 |