Social Sciences at Ozarks
Course Descriptions
SSS/PLS 3113 AREA STUDIES: EUROPE; SSS/PLS 3123 AREA STUDIES: NORTH AMERICA; SSS/PLS 3133 AREA STUDIES: LATIN AMERICA; SSS/PLS 3143 AREA STUDIES: ASIA
These courses are integrated Social Science inter-disciplinary courses specific to the region. Chronologically, they focus on the period since 1900 (emergent globalization). They define and stress the interrelationships between physical environments, cultural identities, political institutions and processes, social, and economic structures.
SSS 4432 AND SSS 4442 SENIOR SEMINAR IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES
This is a two semester sequence intended to be taken during the student’s final year of study. The first semester focuses on the methodological constructs relevant to research in the disciplines of the Social Sciences. Students, in consultation with their advisors, are to define either a research project or a program project by the semester’s end. Research or program implementations are to be accomplished during the second semester of study. Results will be formally presented before students and Social Sciences faculty.
