<p>I was researching a few of my top schools recently, and I saw that some of them require 2 or 3 years of a "social science". I know sociology fits into that field (its my intended major, haha) and I'm taking a sociology course my school offers this upcoming year. So I know I have at least 1 year. But can anyone give me other examples of social sciences because I'm not sure what classes I have previously taken can be grouped into that category? Thanks!</p>
<p>Sociology, psychology, history, political science, civics, sometimes economics.</p>
<p>History classes, psychology, international relations, some religion classes (i go to a Catholic school and 2 out of our 4 years of religion are counted as social studies). You might want to check your schools course catalogue/booklet online if possible and it might have the classes organized by subject area so you can see which classes are social studies.</p>
<p>Thanks for the examples and suggestions! But one more thing - what if my school doesn’t offer a majority of those classes? Will that work against me? Like what I mean is how can the colleges expect us to take a certain amount of classes in a specific category when our school doesn’t offer that many? Out of the examples you both listed, my school does not offer any psychology, political science, civics, international relations, or religion classes. -_______-</p>
<p>The typical student would fulfill the social science requirements with world history and U.S. history, plus another history class like European, or possibly geography.</p>
<p>(by “typical” I mean an average U.S. high school student, not a typical CC’er who may be taking AP/IB classes)</p>
<p>But do those “world history and U.S. history” classes count towards history, as well? Sorry, that sounds really stupid, but I’m just confused.</p>