Positivism still dominates overall. But also ethnographic approaches. The social sciences draw upon the other divisions' disciplines to a degree. The social sciences actually cover a broad range, with some departments resembling the natural sciences, and other more closely resembling the humanities in their philosophic and methodological orientation. Some will prefer auditorium seating in classrooms, while others will require flexible seminar seating for seminars.
Anthropology is more a humanities program than a social science program.
And Communications, though enjoying high student interest, seems to inhabit a different universe altogether. Sociology and Anthro, while a single department in most students' minds, reflect radically separate disciplinary languages from a faculty point of view. The social sciences draw upon the hard sciences, especially in economics and in statistics and research methodology and quantitative research. Extensive use is made of existing media facilities. International Affairs is a discipline that integrates information and the strategies and techniques of a variety of disciplines, including political science, sociology, economics, history, communication and psychology, in order to study and understand complex relations among nations.