Social Sciences

Department Chair:
Vicky Bollenbacher, Ph.D.
662E Westview
970-339-6314

AThe social sciences are fields of scholarship that study society

• Anthropology studies human beings and their social interactions and seeks to explain biological and social characteristics of people, their customs and beliefs.
  
  
• Geography is a science which explains the complexities of the world's surface and climate and how people interact with their environment and build societies.
  
  
• Economics describes how societies and people produce, distribute and consume things and how they make decisions about the material world.
  
  
• History analyzes records to describe and explain past peoples and their civilizations.  Considered part of the humanities by many, history relies heavily on the creative as well as the scientific.
  
  
• Political science is the study of government and political processes, ideologies, institutions, and behavior.
  
  
• Sociology is the study of human societies, institutions and relationships.
  
  
• Women's studies weave together information from many different social sciences to describe and analyze issues of women and gender.

For more information on these programs, call 970-339-6387 or stop by the Social Sciences Division Office, located in Westview 690.