Concentration in Self and Society

Students Admitted Prior to Autumn 2007
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Overview

Concentration Coordinator: Rob Crawford

This concentration combines psychology, sociology, philosophy, literature and the arts in addressing the various ways that people experience their roles in society and how society shapes the individual. In examining social values and exploring such issues as diversity, personal growth and social responsibility, students develop the ability to unravel the complexity of social reality and appreciate the interdependence of all its components.

Career Options

Self and Society prepares students to pursue careers and advanced studies in human services, professions such as psychology, social work, counseling, community service, human resource management and the health field.

Student Learning Outcomes

Students graduating withing this concentration should:

• Be conversant with the way different disciplines theorize or represent the self and its relation to social context.
• Recognize the varieties and implications of individualism and collective identities.
• Appreciate the varied ways art, religion, and social science conceptualize character or personality, society, body, mind, soul.
• Grasp how the intricate relations between self and society are not only a part of an ongoing conversation within and among disciplines but a conversation that also takes place in the public sphere.
• Understand that modes of inquiry and experience as different as artistic expression, philosophical reflection, scientific theory, methodical experimentation, mystical intuition and religious illumination are all necessary to this conversation.

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