Social Sciences Bachelor's Degree

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Explore schools of thought, develop in-demand skills, and discover your path with Stevens' dynamic bachelor's degree in the social sciences.

With an outstanding faculty and a low student-to-faculty ratio, this interdisciplinary program allows students to study the political, sociological, and psychological impact of technology, engineering, and science upon society. Students can choose a specific track to focus their studies on within the social sciences, including psychology, sociology or political science.

Careers in Social Sciences and Humanities

Here are some examples of where recent social sciences, literature, and philosophy majors started their careers.

U.S. Senator Cory Booker’s Office, Office Assistant

AMC Networks, Legal & Business Affairs

Edward Jones, Operation Specialist

Albert Einstein College of Medicine , Specialty: Global Health

GeoMarvel, Full Stack Engineer

Thomas, Copy Editor & Writer

U.S. Army, Second Lieutenant

Carnegie Mellon, Cultural Studies & Critical Theory and Analysis

Recent Graduates

Laina Emmons

COVID-19’s Impact on the 2020 Election: Turnout in Hotspots

"When the COVID-19 pandemic hit the United States in early 2020, differences between state capacity and willingness were starker."

Laina Emmons on the capstone presented during the 2021 Innovation Expo

See Emmons's Project

The Next Mission: An Analysis of U.S. State Policy on Veteran Suicide

"We hope that states who have been unsuccessful in helping the veteran community can adopt these strategies and model their policies off of states who have been more successful."

Dylan Van Sickell on the capstone presented during the 2021 Innovation Expo

See Van Sickell's Project

Meet the Professors

John Horgan, science journalist and director of the Center for Science Writings, recently sat down with members of the Science Science faculty to learn more about their work, both in and out of the classroom.

Michael Kowal and John Horgan

The Power of Computers

"How do we make sense of such massive amounts of data?" asked computational social scientist Michael Kowal. "That's where natural language processing comes in."

Watch the Interview
Yu Tao and John Horgan

Connecting Data & Society

"When we analyze data, we really need to ground our analysis in a particular field," says Yu Tao, a sociologist.

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Kristyn Karl

Political Psychology

"Truly, I'm not as interested in what you think, as I am in why you think it," said Kristyn Karl when explaining her field of work. 

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Ashely Lytle and John Horgan

Psychology of Prejudice

"We talk about how we reduce prejudice," said Ashley Lytle. "How do we make things more equitable in society?

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Recent Headlines

New Research

Lindsey Cormack and Kristyn Karl, both assistant professors, published research that found the public commonly evaluates female politicians more favorably.

Read the Politics & Gender article

$699,540 from the NSF

Serving as a co-principal investigator, Yu Tao and her computer science collaborators received an award nearing $700,000 from the National Science Foundation.

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Get-Out-The-Vote Efforts

In a Digiday article, Lindsey Cormack discussed how media publishers' repeated encouragements to register and vote may embolden readers to actually do so.

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Covid-19 & Ageism

Ashley Lytle co-authored "Covid-19 & Ageism: How Positive and Negative Responses Impact Older Adults and Society," now available in American Psychologist.

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Ready to Vote by Mail?

Lindsey Cormack examined how the readiness and willingness of states to adapt their procedures will likely determine whether mail-in-ballots will be used.

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Friendships Across #instagenerations

Ashley Lytle's assessments showed that students who participated in the #instagenerations project experienced, "a significant decrease in aging anxiety."

Learn more about #instagenerations

The Bomb & You

As a co-principal investigator, Professor Karl helped host The Bomb & You, an exposition on nuclear risk communication in the 21st century.

Learn More About the Bomb & You

FiveThirtyEight

On Nate Silver's FiveThirtyEight, an article about the 2020 election referenced assistant professor Lindsey Cormack's DCinbox project. 

Read FiveThirtyEight's Article

The Washington Post

Assistant professors Karl, Lytle, and Wellerstein published a piece on how to respond to a nuclear explosion in The Washington Post.

Read the Washington Post's article

Schept's Newest Book

Teaching associate professor Susan Schept published her newest book, which challenges the perception of a hostile God within Jewish texts.

More about Schept's Book

Faculty Spotlight

What Students & Alumni are Saying

Think Critically

My social sciences degree enabled me to be a more critical thinker, a better listener and a more eloquent writer. I constantly use these skills while dealing with patients and writing their reports.

Ameer Halim '16, Medical Student at Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Hannah Castello

Make An Impact

The courses and professors allow me to explore the impact of science and technology on fields like medicine and international relations, giving me a new perspective on careers I intend to pursue.

Hannah Castello, STS and Social Sciences Class of 2019