BA/BS in Social Sciences, General

Oregon State University offers this social science major through its Cascades campus in Bend. Students study how people, groups and institutions shape one another, and how those dynamics bear on sustainable communities. Students pick from four options, covering justice studies, digital communication, a general track, and the relationship between people and nature. The curriculum builds a core in communication theory, race and ethnicity, and environmental justice, followed by project work in the final years of study, which lets students apply what they have learned to real community questions. Graduates are expected to speak and write well for specialists and general audiences alike, apply social science ideas to human and ecological systems, and reason through problems using data. Students may earn a BA, BS or honors versions of either, and a 180-credit total is needed.