1. Student explains how social categories such as gender, class, race, ethnicity, religious background, able-bodiedness, and sexual orientation are organized and affect individuals and groups using key disciplinary perspectives.
2. Student applies major disciplinary theories and concepts in writing to analyze cultural texts and a range of real-life experiences and pressing social issues.
3.  Student develops social research informed by disciplinary methods and communicates the results of that research using writing skills appropriate to the disciplines.
4. Student integrates disciplinary knowledge by conducting research or by completing a critical literature review.
5. Student synthesizes knowledge and skills acquired during the course of the major by completing an original research project in an area of expertise.

Updated: August 7, 2024

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