The mission of the Social and Behavioral Sciences department is to support the North Dakota State College of Science by offering general education courses for students completing programs or transferring.
The Social and Behavioral Sciences department understands that a knowledge of the social sciences is an essential component of a liberal education. These disciplines promote a respect for the kind of theorizing, hypothesizing, and empirical research which has begun to answer old and new questions about the world in which we live.
The courses of the Social and Behavioral Sciences department are taught not only with an eye toward helping students enter the workforce, but also stimulating their participation in a modern democratic society impacted by global forces. A knowledge of the social science disciplines is one solid base from which to exercise old and newly-emerging moral responsibilities in an era of rapid and complex social change.
