Psychology is the study of the mind and behavior.  The discipline of psychology embraces all aspects of the human experience-from the functions of the brain to the environments in which humans and other animals develop from child development to aging.

Sociology is the study of society. The course focuses on the behavior of groups in American society. Some of the topics included in the course are culture, conformity, and deviance, the family, adolescence, minorities and discrimination, poverty, crime, and other problems of society.  Out of class reading is required.