2025-2026 Cal Poly Humboldt Catalog 
    
    Nov 11, 2025  
2025-2026 Cal Poly Humboldt Catalog

Lower Division GE Area 4: Social Sciences


4: Social Sciences


 

GE Notes


GE requirements cannot be waived and other Cal Poly Humboldt courses cannot be substituted for approved GE courses. To fulfill a particular requirement, a course must be completed during the academic year in which the GE status is designated in the catalog. Courses that meet outcomes of more than one GE area 1-6, may only be used to satisfy one of those areas.

Goals


Area 4: Social Sciences: Students learn from courses in multiple Area 4 disciplines that human social, political, and economic institutions and behavior are inextricably interwoven. Courses will guide students to accomplish the following content criteria:

  1. develop an understanding of problems and issues from the respective disciplinary perspectives; 
  2. examine issues in their contemporary as well as historical settings and in a variety of cultural contexts; and
  3. explore the principles, methodologies, value systems, and ethics employed in social scientific inquiry.

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