From the Ministry of Education: This course provides students with opportunities to think critically about theories, questions, and issues related to Anthropology, Psychology, and Sociology. Students will take an interdisciplinary look at how diverse factors affect our understanding of overarching concepts such as cultural influences on personality, deviant behaviour, identity development, the social constructs of gender and race, explicit and implicit bias, agents of socialization and issues around mental health. They will also study the theorists and theories that we use to explain human nature, such as Darwin, Freud and Erikson as well as Functionalism and Feminist Theories and the idea of nature vs nurture.
Students will participate in small group discussions, as well as use inquiry and research skills to dig deeper into areas of interest.