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About the Department
The Department of History, Politics, and Sociology is La Sierra University’s center for teaching and scholarship that brings together students and faculty with broad interests in understanding social, political, and cultural experience across all times and regions. Historical and social analysis is the department’s foundation, but its areas of disciplinary coverage include anthropology, sociology, global studies, legal studies, political studies, film studies, and gender studies. It is the University’s locus for area and diversity studies.
The department provides an academic home for collegians interested in understanding global peoples and institutions, for students wanting to integrate social and political commitments into their education, for students seeking interdisciplinary degrees in the humanities and social sciences, for students who want to prepare for graduate studies in any one of a variety of social sciences or humanities, and for students planning for careers in law, government, business, museum or library science, or international affairs. The department is dedicated to educating graduates who will possess the understanding, values, and relationships necessary to serve humanity in all its diversity.
Learning Outcomes
- Critical Analysis: Students will learn strategies in critical reading, thinking, and writing, demonstrating proficiency in areas that facilitate engagement with complex ideas and problems, the questioning of bias and/or assumption, the exploration of perspectives, and the acknowledgment of complexity.
- Engagement with Diversity: students will become familiar with and sensitive to issues of diversity by engaging issues of race, ethnicity, class, and gender.
- Disciplinary Proficiency: students will develop disciplinary proficiency through required departmental academic assignments and projects.
- Research Methodology: students will demonstrate a grasp of disciplinary-based research methodologies – both quantitative and qualitative.
- Religious/Moral/Ethical Values: students will develop an awareness of and engagement with the important religious, moral, and ethical issues of the past and present.
- Extra-Curricular Civic Breadth: students will be encouraged to participate in extracurricular service and internship experiences.
- External Academic Enrichment: students will be encouraged to participate in extra-academic activities such as attending or participating in discipline-related conferences and events.
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histstud@lasierra.edu
(951) 785-2065
Humanities Hall Rm 201