Anthropology considers the diversity of culture through time and space to answer these questions. Political science is the study of how government makes and enforces decisions relevant to the well-being of society, and politics is the term we apply to the process by which these decisions are made. Political science is about conflict and the use of power. Psychology, the scientific study of behaviour, motivation, and mental processes, strives to answer the many questions we have about why people behave as they do. For information on programs in Psychology see the Psychology section in the UWO calendar.
History provides insights into the human experience.
The world around us is in a constant state of change and upheaval, and we cannot understand this change if we have no sense of the ways in which the complex issues that face us have developed over time. History provides a methodology for understanding the past, and this understanding prepares us to make the present and the future better. In sociology courses students gain an awareness of the ways in which individuals adapt to life in a gendered, cultural and ethnic mosaics like Canada, and are invited to question the ways in which basic social structures govern everyday reality in contemporary society. For information on programs in Sociology see the Sociology section in the UWO calendar. Brescia College Homepage.