2007-2008 Catalog (PDF) - Colorado State University-Pueblo

CSU-Pueblo
• Student achievement will be assessed in the
outcome areas on the basis of a standardized
national achievement test.
• For the sociology minor, grades will provide a valid
measure of student performance. The department
will examine and maintain records of grades of
students minoring in sociology as one means of
assessment.
ANTHROPOLOGY
The anthropology minor provides students with an
informed understanding of the cultural diversity evident
in human societies and the concepts by which
anthropologists explain cultural dynamics. The
program emphasizes a holistic awareness of the
relationships of all the parts of social and cultural
systems. The program prepares students to understand
anthropological methods and theories and to
apply them to academic as well as to life experiences.
Anthropology Program Goals
• Students will be able to deal with intellectual
problems and engage in critical thinking in a lucid
fashion, reflecting logical inquiry and knowledge of
pertinent information.
• Students will possess knowledge and experience
of cultural and sub-cultural groups other than their
own.
• Students will achieve an understanding of a
spectrum of anthropological sub-divisions and will
be knowledgeable in at least two areas.
Specific Requirements for the Anthropology
Minor
The minor consists of 21 semester hours of
anthropology courses; ANTHR 100 is required, and six
hours must be upper division. The rest of the courses
may be based upon the student’s interest. No grades
below C are accepted toward the minor.
Outcome Assessment Activities
• The assessment of anthropology students’
progress is a continuing process from matriculation
to graduation.
SOCIAL SCIENCE PROGRAM
(Offered through Continuing Education only)
The interdisciplinary major in social science (offered
only through Continuing Education) leads to the
degrees of Bachelor of Arts (BA) and Bachelor of
Science (BS).
Social scientists study people and social institutions,
especially the relationships and impacts they have with
and on each other. Research in the social sciences
provides insights that help in understanding the ways
in which individuals and groups make decisions,
exercise power or respond to change. Social scientists
gather and analyze data, interpret it and make it
meaningful and useful for application in dealing with
human problems.
Employment has traditionally been in the academic
area; however, as the economy continually changes
from an industrial to a service-oriented system, a
greater need for “people-oriented” specialists is
developing. Job opportunities in applied fields include
areas such as program management and administration,
residential counseling, service supervision,
human services and sales and related work -- in both
the public and private sectors. Related careers are:
teaching, social work, corrections/criminology, social
and educational administration, law and mass
communications.
Program Goals
• Prepare students to function as knowledgeable
and responsible individual citizens in society;
• Prepare students for leadership roles within the
broader society;
• Instill in students a broad understanding of the
major disciplinary approaches to the study of
social life, including economics, history, sociology,
geography, and political science;
• Prepare students for participation in modern social
institutions, as well as for the coming changes and
conflicts within those institutions;
• Instill in students an awareness of and appreciation
for the cultural and ethnic diversity of modern
society.
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