University of Pennsylvania social studies courses

The University of Pennsylvania offers courses in Social sciences that include a variety of academic disciplines that study the communities or societies in which people live, including anthropology, criminology, economics, linguistics, political science, social history, and sociology. The Social Sciences course provides methods, tools, and concepts to help you understand human behaviour and social interaction in a broad range of contexts, from interpersonal communication to cultural identification to global patterns. In these courses, students learn to think critically about how culture and group identities are created, maintained, and changed; how social structures and institutions affect the lives of individual people; and how social problems are defined and addressed by different groups.