Social Sciences
Plan Your Social Sciences Degree
Navigating a multidisciplinary degree requires careful selection of your primary concentrations or focus areas. Academic advisors can help you align your chosen paths, select proper management or psychology electives, incorporate valuable internships, and map out an efficient timeline toward graduation.
About the Major
The general degree allows you to concentrate your academic studies in two or three of the following specific disciplines:
- Anthropology
- Criminal justice
- History
- Human development
- Personnel psychology and human resources
- Political science
- Psychology
- Sociology
- Women’s studies
The specialized Personnel Psychology and Human Resources option is designed to provide human resource professionals, and those preparing for a career in human resources, the tools to be effective managers. The curriculum for this option includes coursework from three distinct academic areas: psychology, human development, and management.
Learning Objectives
At WSU Vancouver, you will focus your learning according to your personal values, interests and goals.
Core Skills Acquired
- Ability to integrate knowledge from the arts, humanities, social sciences and sciences and apply them to real-life scenarios
- Demonstrated ability to search, select, analyze and use information to solve current societal challenges
- Clear, concise and effective communication
Career Fields
A degree in social sciences prepares you for a variety of professional paths, including:
- Political scientist
- Economist
- Industrial-organizational psychologist
- Sociologist
- Geographer
- Psychologist
- Urban and regional planner
- Historian