UCC Social Science Department Umpqua Community College. PO Box 967. Roseburg OR 97470. Economics analyzes how people choose to use scarce resources to satisfy unlimited wants and needs. Education courses aim to lay the practical and philosophical foundations for students interested in pursuing careers as teachers.
History looks for patterns in the past to explain what the world's peoples are doing today.
Human Services concerns roles and functions of human service agencies and human service professionals. Political Science analyzes how people and groups compete to express their values and to gain power in their societies and in the world. Studies include political ideology, local and state politics, national issues, the judicial process, and international relations. Psychology focuses on the behavior and mental processes of the individual. Specifically, psychologists study learning and memory, perception, thinking, states of consciousness, motivation, emotion, intelligence, mental disorders, and therapies.