also asked to "Choose two from the following list:"
PHYS 150, 151
CHEM 91, CHEM 101/53
BIOL 091 or BIOL 101 or BIOL 121
Please note that for the most part, Physics is far more useful and relevant to DMD than Bio or Chem...
Once again, this should be more than you cared to know about natural science courses at Penn!
So, What Is a Social Science Anyway? (10/21/04)
So glad you asked! Social Science courses fall into some basic categories, and then there are the "sometimes it is, sometimes it isn't categories. Psych, Policital Science, Sociology (duh), and Economics are all social sciences. These fill the SS space on your DMD Course Planning Guide. Sometimes social sciences include History and Sociology of Science (some courses are Humanities, some are social sciences), Comm (ditto), Health and Society, Religious Studies and Film. Take for example Comm 123 and Comm 125...
Here is the listing for COMM 123:
123. Communication and Popular Culture. (A) Distribution III: May be counted as a Distributional course in Arts & Letters.
Popular culture has been variously dismissed as mere trivia, "just entertainment; it has been condemned as propaganda, a tool of mass deception; and its consumers have been dubbed fashion victims and couch potatoes. This course considers these critiques, as well as those that suggest that popular culture offers valuable material for the study of social life. We will consider the meanings and impact of popular culture, including its effects on how we see ourselves, others, and American life; who makes distinctions between high, middlebrow, and low or mass culture; and how power and resistance structure the production and consumption of popular texts.
Where is says it counts for distribution as Arts and Letters, this mean that it is a Humanities course. Note that Comm 125, shown below, is listed as a course that fills the General Distribution requirement for Society... society = social science.
L/R 125. Introduction to Communication Behavior. (B) Gen Req I: May be counted towards the General Requirement in Society. Price. This course is an introduction to the fundamentals of communication behavior. It focuses on social science studies relating to the processes and effects of mass communication. Research reviewed includes media use behavior and media influences on knowledge, perceptions of social reality, aggressive behavior, and political behavior.
For the SEAS rules, look here (and note the cute picture of Jean Tsong, DMD senior, on the student handbook page).
Social Science and Humanities Courses
In the SSH category, a student should choose courses of personal interest which will provide in-depth study (2 or more courses) of at least one subject and which will include several subjects so that reasonably broad insight is achieved in the social and behavioral sciences and in the humanities. Because of the importance of good communication skills to success in all endeavors, each student should seek to enhance these skills by the choice of SSH courses.
For the purposes of planning your Social Science and Humanities courses (SSH), a humanities course or social science course is one within the broad areas of the humanities (including foreign languages) or the social sciences. This definition encompasses such fields of study as (in the humanities) history, English, philosophy, foreign languages, classics, history of art, and (in the social sciences) sociology, psychology, economics, and political science. Your SSH course work must provide both breadth and depth and not be limited to a selection of unrelated introductory courses. Unacceptable for SSH credit are courses that are not about either humanities or social science; for example, courses in the business discipline, military science, any course that is primarily a study of mathematics or a physical science or any course designed primarily to impart skill d u, , 51`*= 5- З M 1`; xbl `e k$ ;
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That, I suspect, is more than you ever wanted to know about Social Sciences!
All information by Amy Calhoun, posted on the DMD Senior Projects site on Blackboard. Lovingly cut-and-pasted by Priscilla Spencer, Peer Advisor Extraordinaire.