Foundations of the Social Sciences

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This course addresses the history and dispersion of Social Scientific enquiry from the late 18th century to the present. The course will demonstrate how various disciplines in the Social Sciences, such as Linguistics, Economics, Political Science, Sociology, Psychology, and Geography have influenced the terminology and central problematics of many of the professional disciplines which exist today, including Management, Education, and Conflict Resolution. The course will also investigate how traditional disciplines in the Social Sciences have conjoined with other disciplines from the sciences and the humanities to form new interdisciplinary models of inquiry.