Social Sciences Major

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SOCIAL SCIENCES (Soc Sci)

Soc Sci 212. Geopolitics.  This integrated interdisciplinary course provides the primary experience to facilitate senior cadet understanding of the global environment into which they will be depoloyed.  The global environment includes international relations, comparative politics, global gender roles, culture, and physical process, and examines how these factors influence global and national politics.  Cadets will describe, interpret, and evaluate global political relations and formulate stragegies for interacting in Western and non-Western cultures.  This course is a core substitute for Soc Sci 412 for cadets requiring this material early in their major.

Soc Sci 400. Social Sciences. Interdisciplinary course. An interactive seminar focused on relevant social sciences topics.

Soc Sci 412.  Geopolitics. This integrated interdisciplinary course provides the primary experience to facilitate senior cadet understanding of the global environment into which they will be depoloyed.  The global environment includes international relations, comparative politics, global gender roles, culture, and physical process, and examines how these factors influence global and national politics.  Cadets will describe, interpret, and evaluate global political relations and formulate stragegies for interacting in Western and non-Western cultures.

Soc Sci 420. Law and Economics. An interdisciplinary course which examines various legal issues from an economics perspective. The course employs basic economic principles in an effort to understand the nature of legal rules, their effect on society and to suggest how these rules might be reformed. This framework is applied to tort law, criminal law, contract and property law.

Soc Sci 483. Principles of Negotiation and the Mediation Process. A study of the process of negotiation in all kinds of conflicts, from negotiating with family members to international, multiparty disputes. The course focuses on an “interest-based” approach to negotiations to achieve more effective, efficient, durable agreements. Students will study a model approach and will experiment with that approach in a variety of simulated negotiations. Students will also learn the Air Force Mediation process and practice using it.

Soc Sci 495S.  Statesmanship.  Capstone seminar course for the Academy Scholars Program focused on statesmanship.