General Education Requirements

GS. Social Science Requirement Fall 2011 through Summer 2018

This page is for GE from 2011-2018. For information about the GE program beginning in Fall 2018, please see the GE homepage. See UH Hilo Catalog back issues for descriptions of older courses.

6 semester hours.

Students select one semester course in one area and a second semester course in a different area. These courses use the terminology of theories, structures, or processes in the social or psychological sciences and engage students in the systematic study of human behavior, both social and individual.

  • These courses are certified as meeting the Social Science requirement effective Fall 2011 through Summer 2018.
  • Please note effective dates: a course must have been certified when you took the course to count towards the requirement.
  • Students using catalogs between 2011-2018 who wish to apply the Social Science requirement to courses not listed on this page must submit a "Request for Modification of Academic Requirement" form which can be found on the Office of the Registrar - Commonly Used Forms page.

Select two (in different areas):

  • ANTH 100 Cultural Anthropology (effective Fall 2011)
  • ANTH 110 Archaeology (effective Fall 2011)
  • ANTH 320 Cross-Cultural Study of Women (effective Fall 2011)
  • ANTH 324 Culture, Sex & Gender (effective Fall 2011)
  • ANTH 372 Culture through Film (effective Fall 2011)
  • ANTH 385 Hawaiian & Pacific Prehistory (effective Fall 2011)
  • ANTH 389 Cultural Resource Management (effective Fall 2011)
  • BUS 100 Introduction to Business (effective Fall 2011)
  • COM 270 Intro to Theories of Human Com (effective Fall 2012)
  • ECON 100 Introduction to Economics (effective Fall 2011)
  • ECON 130 Introduction to Microeconomics (effective Fall 2011)
  • ECON 131 Introduction to Macroeconomics (effective Fall 2011)
  • ECON 340 Money & Banking (effective Fall 2011)
  • GEOG 102 Geography of World Cultural Regions (effective Fall 2011)
  • GEOG 103 Geography & Contemporary Society (effective Fall 2011)
  • GEOG 105 Geography of United States (certified from Fall 2011-Summer 2016)
  • GEOG 107 Hawaiʻi in the Pacific (effective Fall 2011)
  • GEOG 430 Gender, Place and Environment (effective Fall 2011)
  • HIST 151 World History: To 1500 (effective Fall 2011)
  • HIST 152 World History: From 1500 (effective Fall 2011)
  • HIST 274 History of Hawaiʻi (certified from Fall 2011-Summer 2014)
  • HIST 316 Pacific History I: To 1900 (effective Fall 2011)
  • HIST 317 Pacific History II: From 1900 (effective Fall 2011)
  • HON 100 Opening Colloquium (certified from Fall 2011-Summer 2016)
  • HWST 111 Hawaiian ʻOhana (effective Fall 2011)
  • JPST 353 Politics of Japan (effective Fall 2011)
  • MGT 333 International Business Management (effective Fall 2011)
  • NURS 350 Transcultural Care & Health Promotion (effective Fall 2011)
  • NURS 457 Collaborative Health Care, Leadership (effective Fall 2011)
  • POLS 101 American Politics: National (effective Fall 2011)
  • POLS 220 Introduction to Legal Systems (effective Fall 2011)
  • POLS 242 Introduction to World Politics (effective Fall 2011)
  • POLS 251 Introduction to Comparative Politics (effective Fall 2011)
  • POLS 331 Presidency & Congress (effective Fall 2011)
  • POLS 341 Women and War (certified from Fall 2011-Summer 2016)
  • POLS 351 Politics of China (effective Fall 2011)
  • POLS 353 Politics of Japan (effective Fall 2011)
  • POLS 360 Public Administration (effective Fall 2011)
  • POLS 391 Internship (effective Fall 2011)
  • PSY 100 Survey of Psychology (effective Fall 2011)
  • PSY 312 Evaluation Research
  • PSY 323 Community Psychology (effective Fall 2011)
  • PSY 390 Industrial & Organizational Psychology (certified from Fall 2011-Summer 2016)
  • PSY 445 Practicum in Psychology (effective Fall 2011)
  • PSY 475 Asian American Psychology (effective Fall 2011)
  • SOC 100 Principles of Sociology (effective Fall 2011)
  • SOC 240 Social Psychology (effective Fall 2011)
  • SOC 260 Social Problems (effective Fall 2011)
  • SOC 280 Statistical Reasoning (effective Fall 2011)
  • SOC 280L Lab in Statistical Reasoning (effective Fall 2011)
  • SOC 480 Practicum in Social Research (effective Fall 2011)
  • WS 151 Introduction to Women’s Studies (effective Fall 2011)
  • WS 320 Cross-Cultural Study of Women (effective Fall 2013)
  • WS 324 Culture, Sex & Gender (effective Fall 2011)
  • WS 341 Women and War (effective Fall 2011-Summer 2016)
  • WS 357 Women and Religion (effective Fall 2011)
  • WS 430 Gender, Place & Environment (effective Fall 2011)