Behavioral & Social Sciences

Department Chair:
Tracey Trenam
692 B Westview
970-339-6216
tracey.trenam@aims.edu

All the behavioral and social sciences explore how people interact, make decisions, and construct knowledge and beliefs, as individuals and in groups. Students seeking AA and AS degrees must take three courses from the behavioral and social sciences, one of which must be a history course. Be sure to consult your advisor about this requirement.

Behavioral sciences include psychology, which explores our minds and behavior, our social interactions and how people learn and think.

Social sciences study different aspects of people and their organizations.  Aims offers classes in several of the social sciences

• 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, 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 issues of women and gender.

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