Human behavior is influenced by a variety of physical and social factors.
Students will also be exposed to the ideas of several contemporary and historical students of human behavior including Sigmund Freud and Karl Marx. As one of the University's core courses it seeks to broaden students' general education and help students acquire a body of knowledge needed to be liberally educated individuals in a diverse, multicultural world. For education majors, the course helps prepare students for the National Teachers Examination, i.e., Praxis. For all students the course seeks to demonstrate how the social sciences provide non-obvious explantions of human behavior. The course will help students go beyond their own personal experiences and beyond common sense explanations to gain a deeper understanding of human behavior.