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2024-2025 Academic Catalog
Social Studies Course Descriptions
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Social Studies
Social Studies
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SST 110 - Comparative Herbalism 2 credits (Fall and Spring)
This course explores plant-based healing practices in communities across the globe. Doing so will require comparative considerations of beliefs about the body, its relationship to the natural world, and the processes of health, disease, and healing. Fully appreciating the complexity of herbalism requires interacting with the plants and the processes of preparing them for medicinal use. We will utilize the Marcus Family Global Kitchen to experience the making of tinctures, oils, salves, poultices, and infusions.
Prerequisite: None.
Note: Half-semester deadlines apply.
Instructor: Lewis -
SST 115 - Introduction to Statistics 4 credits (Fall and Spring)
Introduces the notions of variability and uncertainty and such common statistical concepts as point and interval estimation and hypothesis testing. Data-oriented, with real-world examples chosen from the social and biological sciences. The computer is used for data analysis and to illustrate probabilistic and statistical concepts.
Prerequisite: Prerequisite: Two years of high school algebra and second semester of first-year standing.
Instructor: Staff -
SST 120 - Introduction to Material Culture Studies 4 credits (Spring)
See HUM 120 .
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SST 125 - Introduction to Geographic Information System (GIS) Analysis 2 credits (Fall)
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) deals with the analysis and management of geographic information. This course offers an introduction to methods of managing and processing geographic information. Emphasis will be placed on the nature of geographic information, data models and structures for geographic information, geographic data input, data manipulation and data storage, and spatial analytic and modeling techniques.
Prerequisite: None.
Instructor: Brottem -
SST 140 - Medieval and Renaissance Culture: 1100–1650 4 credits (Spring)
See HUM 140 .
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SST 200 - Creative Careers: Learning from Alumni 2 credits (Spring)
Cross-listed as: HUM 200 and SCI 200 . This course is sponsored by the Wilson Center for Innovation and Leadership. Students engage with alumni to learn about their lives and careers. Leadership and career-focused readings together with discussion with alumni will help students think creatively about their Grinnell education and possible futures.
Prerequisite: None.
Note: Plus-2 option available for Social Studies and Humanities only. S/D/F only.
Instructor: Rietz -
SST 213 - Media and the Middle East 4 credits (Fall)
See HUM 213 .
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SST 221 - Public Attitudes on American Democracy 4 credits (Spring)
Cross-listed as: POL 221 . This course examines the attitudes of the American public on liberty, equality and liberal democratic institutions using the Grinnell College National Poll. Students will study core democratic principles and contemporary challenges to democracy, design poll questions to examine attitudes about these principles in the American public, and analyze responses to those questions after the poll is fielded.
Note: when taken as POL-221, this course satisfies the American politics distribution requirement of the Political Science Major.
Prerequisite: MAT 115 , SST 115 or STA 209 only if taken as SST-221; POL 101 is also required if taking as POL-221; with grade S, C, or better.
Instructor: Hanson -
SST 225 - Applied Geographic Information Systems Analysis (GIS) 4 credits (Spring)
This course will represent a continuation of SST 125 by enabling students who took that course to build upon and apply the skills they learned through an independent project of their choice. The course will also include a limited number of advanced labs as well as lectures on GIS conceptualization and project planning. Students will be expected to learn and implement intermediate to advanced GIS methods in their projects.
Prerequisite: SST 125 with grade S, C, or better. Prerequisite or co-requisite: MAT 115 or SST 115 .
Instructor: Brottem
Special Topics-Fall
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SOC 295-02 - Special Topic: Data Analysis for the Social Sciences 4 credits (Fall)
This course will introduce students to the analysis and interpretation of quantitative data in the social sciences. Throughout the course, students will critically read and assess various quantitative and mixed-method approach papers in the social sciences and the use of statistics in policy debates. Simultaneously, students will also learn to use the computer program, R, to analyze and interpret data using similar methods.
Prerequisite: SOC 291 and SST 115 with grades, S, C, or better.
Instructor: Francisco
Special Topics-Spring
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SOC 395-02 - Advanced Special Topic: Black Radical Traditions 4 credits (Spring)
This class explores the many strands of the Black radical tradition, those who seek to fundamentally challenge dominant interlocking systems of oppression. Topics will include racial capitalism; identity politics and politics of coalition; art, music, culture, and resistance; critical moments of Black uprising; Black Marxism; racial formation, systemic racism and the white racial frame, and critical race theory; and racial ideology and counterhegemonic resistance. Students will conduct a professor-guided but self-directed project of their choosing.
Prerequisite: SOC 111 and at least 1 200-level Sociology class with grades S, C, or better.
Note: Plus-2 option available
Instructor: Haenfler
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