College textbooks from various disciplines, and original source materials, are compared and contrasted. Themes are explored. Students placed by examination in RDG 100 should complete the course in the freshman year. This course applies as liberal arts elective credit towards a degree. This course focuses on how to teach social studies as both a body of knowledge and a way of asking and answering questions.
Teaching is modeled in the classroom with an emphasis on the content and process of social studies.
The course presumes that education in social studies merges with education in all disciplines to enlarge the child's appreciation of the world and will lead the child to a better understanding of our expanding world.