In keeping with the mission of Wright College and its General Education objectives, the mission of the Social Science Department is to improve the life of our students by helping them to clearly recognize and understand the rapidly changing world in which we live and to simultaneously increase their ability to cope with it.

The scope of our department encompasses the methods, principles, theories and concepts from anthropology, economics, geography, history, political science, psychology, sociology and criminal justice. Each discipline’s goals are to encourage students to view the social world through diverse lenses and to promote tolerance and understanding within a global society.

Upon completion of courses within the social science department the student will be able to:

1. Reason Theoretically: Analyze, question and internalize Social Scientific Theories. Explore diversity, change and continuity within individuals, cultures and societies, and be able to apply these theories to social life.
   
   
2. Reason Methodologically: Apply appropriate Social Scientific problem solving techniques to social issues and social phenomena of the past, present and future. Support ideas and decisions in a logically structured format based on the Social Science Research Methods through technological, verbal and written assessment.
   
   
3. Reason Collectively: Interact and work together in collective problem solving exercises. Communicate and collaborate with the diverse population of the class in a professional, technologically current, task oriented manner. Results to be presented to class in oral, written formats.