The College of Arts and Sciences is your place to ponder the social world. Here, curiosity leads to connection by asking big questions, discovering patterns, and drawing conclusions to drive change. In the social sciences, we seek to understand both how our social structures operate and why they work this way in order to improve the institutions and processes that affect people’s lives every day.
Social scientists use systematic and evidence-based methodologies to study the relationships and influences that have the power to impact society. Why do people behave as they do? How is culture created? How are social inequalities produced and how do those inequalities shape our daily lives? Answering questions like these takes the work of many different disciplines investigating many different aspects of the social world: economics, government, health, medicine, environment, education, religion, gender, sexuality, and more.
