These students receive academic advisement from both the coordinator of SLS and an adviser from the appropriate program in the Department of Education. Programs leading to teacher certification in New York State are undergoing revision to comply with new State regulations. For admission to and continuation in the major of Science, Letters, and Society, a minimum GPA of 2.75 is required. Topics include problem solving techniques, set theory, mathematical logic, number systems and their properties, numeration systems, and algorithms. Linear inequalities and linear programming, Euclidian and non-Euclidian geometries, probability, statistics.
Emphasis is placed on the interaction of political, economic, and cultural factors.
Themes include the creation of American myths, the triumph of majority traditions, the American heritage of dissent, and the responses to social crises. The course will emphasize the extent to which the actual workings of our political systems differ from, and are affected by, constitutional theory and legal rules and thus will discuss the impact of pressure groups and public opinion. It will also cover selected state and local political issues. An overview of the development of civilizations, examining their structure and organization, characteristic ideas and institutions, and the processes of cultural diffusion and conflict within and between them. The emphasis will be on urban problems.