<p>Which course is generally more interesting and/or challenging?</p>
<p>I'd say Psychology.</p>
<p>Since you're trying to get a requirement out of the way, I'd say take the one with the better professor.</p>
<p>Whichever you're more interested in and challenged by. They're different subjects, and they're going to have different emphases in different courses at different schools. Why are you interested in them? What do you want to learn?</p>
<p>Psychology is more about processes of thought and the mind; sociology is more about behavior and how groups of people interact. Which are you more interested in?</p>
<p>I've taken intro to psych and intro to sociology. Also have taken several psych courses and a couple more sociology courses.</p>
<p>Thats being said, there is a deal of overlap between intro to psych and intro to sociology (sociology studies the individual, group, and society more than cognitive processes - mind you there is a large part of psychology called "social psychology.")</p>
<p>Intro to psych varies a lot by professor, but all intro to psych courses cover the same essential overview of the field of psychology, and if you're going to take any other psych courses, you should probably take it - your learn a lot from it. Intro to socio - my professor wasn't that good, and it covered some common-sense, overly broad topics like "the family" and "religion" and "racial relations."</p>
<p>I'd go with psych. Although I've found more focused and advanced sociology courses to be very, very well-done and interesting, intro to sociology was just a snore.</p>
<p>Depends what you hope to learn about. What interests you?
Psychology can be defined as the hybrid social-biological science of biological/physiological, perceptual, cognitive, and interpersonal processes as they effect behavior and one another. It finds its roots in physiology and philosophy primarily.
Sociology is basically the science of people groups on all levels, how they interact and effect one another and the interpersonal/intragroup/intergroup processes that make human social groups function (or not function).</p>
<p>Whichever one is more scientific and less abstract</p>
<p>Scientific and abstract are not opposites.</p>
<p>They're both social sciences. That said, psychology these days often interfaces closely with more biologically oriented neuroscience.</p>
<p>I personally would go with psych out of those two choices. I took intro psych and intro soc this semester, and I really liked the former and hated the latter. However, I had a HORRID professor for soc so that might have soured my opinion of an otherwise worthy subject.</p>
<p>leprostaist, consider researching the two topics, or even glance through an intro textbook on each to see if one sparks interest over the other.</p>