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Concentration Course Requirements:
PSY Required Course (10)
ALL of the following:
PSY 101 SSC 201 MAT 243
Introduction to Psychology 3 Social Science Research Methods 3 Statistics 4
PSY Concentration Electives (12):
Any of the following, with at least two courses upper-division:
PSY 201 PSY 202 PSY 225 PSY 320 PSY 340 PSY 345 PSY 360 PSY 450
Psychology of Lifespan Development 3 Educational Psychology 3 Human Sexuality 3 Introduction to Abnormal Psychology 3 Introduction to Social Psychology 3 Theories of Personality 3 Neuroscience and Behavior 3
Social Science (21 credit hours)
Field Experience
3
The Social Science program of Providence Christian College exists to enable students to
develop critical awareness of social structures, diversity, and human relationships from a Reformed Christian perspective. Students can take courses in several disciplines, including communication, economics, geography, political science, psychology, sociology, which will provide an interdisciplinary perspective to examine social structures and problems such as including ethnicity, class, status, individual and group behavior, and distribution of power and resources. The Social Science program can prepare students for a variety of vocations in education, business, helping professions, or graduate
work in social work, counseling, or law.
Mission Statement:
Concentration Learning Outcomes:
The Social Science program of Providence Christian College exists to enable students to
develop critical awareness of social structures, diversity, and human relationships from a Reformed
Christian perspective.
Students who complete the social science concentration will be able to:
1. Identify, through various methods, not only the nature of the social sciences and the basic content of
social science disciplines but also the problems addressed by the social sciences.
2. Articulate the various methods, conceptual models, or paradigms utilized in particular social science disciplines from an integrally Christian perspective.
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