Social and behavioral sciences. This
career workshop is focused on
individuals who are interested in
majoring in the Social and Behavioral
Sciences or looking for a career within
the Social and Behavioral Sciences. This
workshop was created by intern Masuma
mohammadi. My name is Dr. Abdimalik Buul
Transfer Center director and counselor here at
San Diego City College. So what are the
social sciences? It is a scientific study
of human society and social
relationships. Some majors include but
are not limited to anthropology, child
development, Chicano Studies, drug studies,
economics, history, humanities, philosophy
psychology and sociology. And as you may
know, those two last two psychology and
sociology are very very common and
famous. I'd like to start off with this
quote today. "We do not see things as they
are, we see things as we are." Click on
this video to find out more about the
social sciences. So why entertain a
major in the social sciences? Well a
major the social sciences will
provide individuals with vital skills
that will remain with them throughout
their personal and professional lives.
Social sciences will allow students to
develop critical thinking analytical
logic and presentation skills throughout
the course of their degrees. Social
science graduates have a profound
understanding of how society works
and organizations rely on them
to function effectively. While stem
graduates are building the latest
technologies it is the social sciences
graduates that are applying these
technologies to the world around us and
this is very very important. This is the
gap between a theoretical and the
practical.
there's a human touch and a human
element to those who study social
sciences so for example critical
thinking and analytical skills are
expecially important when you have to
deal with folks that become psychology
majors that become counselors and
therapists and understanding how to
unearth and unravel some of the
traumatic experiences and help that
person cope and develop and be whole and
be human in addressing their concerns.
Logic is very very important and it's
critical for lawyers, for example, to
present a logical argument in a court
case. Presentation skills. Communication
majors which is one of the majors here
we talked about is essential for any
corporation or company and branding
itself for you articulating yourself in
an interview of why you're the most
adaptable candidate in the most prime
candidate for that position. So the
social sciences does provide tools with
vital skills that will help them remain
they'll remain with them throughout
their professional and personal lives. Communication that is limited to your
job it's also incorporating your
personal life, your family life, your
relationships, your friendships. It's very
very vital. The question is always why
should you study this course. We get to
learn more about the social and
emotional intelligence of people, right?
we know that we are emotional beings and
we're social creatures
right there's introverts or extroverts
We have synergistic energy
amongst us as humans and we find
ourselves attracting each other through
out that energy. It's those emotions and
feelings. It's very very important. how
does that happen? How do we interact? What
does that mean for human interaction? How
does that improve work production? How
does that motivate students to learn? How
does that motivate employees to work?
So this is very very important.
Social science is figuring this out. You
will be doing the kind
work that machines cannot do because the
related jobs require a lot of
interaction with people. In fact,
cognitive science and the field of
psychologists development currently
focuses a lot on how the brain itself
develops in the capacity learning how do
students develop and understand teaching
material taught to them how do they
digest curriculum what is the best
modality of learning what is the best
method of teaching and studying and
researching social and emotional
intelligence you get to figure out the
way of thinking and the mindset of
people and you will have knowledge of
the human nature this is very very
important especially for those of you
who plan on being CEOs of companies
running your own businesses what makes
your employees wake up day in and day
out and want to work for you and your
corporation your company
all right what makes people want to buy
your product social scientists
understand the human mind and human
nature. It is a broad course there's a lot
of career opportunities for it. It's very
very broad I mean you find someone in
our counseling department for example
and you could literally walk down the
hallways and everyone has a different
undergraduate major. Economics, history,
criminal justice sociology psychology
but their master's degree ended up being
counseling. Why? Because it's very broad.
So your undergraduate major in social
sciences can be very broad and then you
kind of specify that in graduate school
So do not think you'll be denied
opportunities for employment based upon
your desire to major in the social
behavioral sciences and you figure out a
way of thinking of different mindsets of
people all the time the jobs you can get
are very dynamic it's not typical office
work you're not punching papers like an
accountant. You're not counting numbers
right like in payroll. Not one day will
be the same because you deal with a lot
of different people on a daily basis
criminals, the political managers, to
phenomenal human beings.
we offer several programs here at City
College that covers a wide variety of
folks that want to major in the Social
and Behavioral Sciences. For example
you major in history, sociology,
psychology, anthropology, economics
linguistics, political science. All of
these have what's called an ADT an
associate's degree of transfer which
guarantees an admission to one of the 23
California State University the CSU's
you can also attend UCS and we'll talk
about that in a bit. We also have AAs to achieve while you're here and not
necessary transfer even though it's a
highly advised if you can major in the
social behavioral sciences that you do
pursue a bachelor's degree at minimum. So
what can you transfer to? Well you see
there's several options. Anthropology.
We talked about the how its broad study.
There is communications and that's very
broad as well you can go from journalism
to communication you've got mass media
you can go any which way you want both.
communication is critical. Gender Studies
is an evolving new field. Economics we
see what's going on right now with the
economy in the recession that we're in.
Education studies how to be a teacher
ethnic studies and its various
subsections of static studies so we have
Chicano Studies and Native American
Studies African American Studies there's
different various sub themes of ethnic
studies political science a lot of poli-
SCI majors a lot of politicians a lot of
lawyers that come out of these majors
psychology and sociology at Berkeley
there's global studies of social welfare
UC Davis has human development
which is similar to child development
but you look at life span the human
social work. UCLA has geology human
biology and society and psycho biology
and now we're taking the science and
making it social. I also don't forget to
check out UC Irvine Riverside Merced
Santa Barbara Santa Cruz. A lot of these
also have what's called a TAG transfer
admission guarantee and it's typically
done in the month of September
1 to September 30th prior
to the year you are transferring so you have to
at least have 30 units and you have to
meet that minimum GPA requirements of
that institution and you have to have
your major as a tag eligible major. More
information on that can be sought at the
UC tag website. We talked about the ADT
or the associate's degree of
transfer again that guarantees you two
admissions to one of the CSU's. Now it
may be all the way up north in Humboldt
as we can see. Maybe all the way east and
Chico northeast or San Bernardino or
with the cows in Bakersfield however you will be guaranteed into an admission as long as you
complete an associate's degree or
transfer and one of those majors that we
do offer and San Diego State has anthropology,
child and family development is the social
and behavioral science major communications
economics. Liberal Studies for those want to go into
teaching. Sociology. We also have
criminology and Justice Studies at Cal
State San Marcos. Global studies right
given the nature of how things are
becoming globalized with our internet
and trade and e-commerce
again Human Development social sciences
Women, gende,r and sexuality studies again
another emerging field here. CSU Fullerton has politics administration of
justice
psychology amongst others. These are not
just limited to the majors that they
offer but a lot of the various CSU's
we're really designed for social
behavior science and arts and humanities
The UCs were designed for stem.
You're gonna find a plethora of diverse
options in majoring in the social
behavior Sciences at the CSU's. That's
enough about the majors. Let's talk about
the careers. So what can you do with
those degrees? Well we can become an
anthropologist and that's very very
broad, right? Archaeologist I'm not
talking about bones not talking about
Indiana Jones and studying museums. You could be a
curator. You could be
a historian right we see people
cross-sectional like environmentalists
for example if they want to excavate a
certain area they contacted anthropology
and archaeologists say hey this is a lab
able to be developed in this capacity
right. So they are able to mention that. I
know some archaeologists not apologist
that work for SDGE San Diego gas electric
for example college professors. You can
get your masters or doctor do you become
a college professor. Or an economist and
this is a variety of fields within there.
Of an economist. Geologist,
historian, journalist, lawyer,
oceanographer, political scientist,
psychologist, social worker, sociologists, teacher. I mean there are so many fields
that you can enter and the employment
margins for these fields are drastic and
so we encourage you to look at our
resources that we offer at the transfer
Career Center or we encourage you to
 check out our personal growth
development courses. We have PG 130 which
is the Career Development course we have
PG 120
we also have personal growth 140 and so
in this video courses you'll get to kind
of go over some of the basic functions
of these degrees. We also have career
assessments the MBTI. We have my plan. We
have journey we offer a variety of
resources to help develop your specific
needs for industries that can connect
with your career. Again the careers are
not limited by your major.
They're very expansive and we've noticed
that several Fortune 500 companies and
CEOs of large corporations majored in
the social behavioral sciences and so we
understand there's a lot of
opportunities in these fields what's
probably more pressing to understand is
that you may need to get your graduate
degree, a bachelor's degree, in a more
specific industry if you're interested
in that
So be it Communications, be it psychology
you want to go into counseling want to
become a psychiatrist if you want to become
a psychologist if you want to become a
psychotherapist if you want to become
Marriage and Family Therapist if you
want to become for example a clinician
there's so many different ways in which
you can apply your undergraduate degree
to apply for graduate school. The only
limitations that exist are those that
you set upon yourself. Thank you.
