History asks these questions of the past. Political Science, Sociology and Economics ask them of the present. Psychology looks within us for motivations and mechanisms of response. 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.