The Social Sciences

The social sciences at Antioch College encompass three fields of study: cultural anthropology, political economy, and psychology. An energetic teaching faculty invites students to develop critical, comprehensive, and interdisciplinary perspectives on the nature of society, human experience and behavior, interpersonal relationships, and power relations. Using a variety of methodologies and modes of inquiry, these fields focus on the interplay between self and other, individual and society, micro and macro levels of analysis, and theory and practice.

Social Science majors apply what they learn in the classroom through experiential education opportunities ranging from the highly regarded Prison Justice practicum, to day trips exploring urban development in Cincinnati, to designing, implementing and evaluating campaigns to increase sustainable behavior on campus. Social science students actively practice what they learn in the classroom through rewarding co-op experiences domestically and around the world.

Recent co-ops included: The White House, Office of Presidential Correspondence (Washington, D.C.), Casa Juan Diego Immigrant Services (Houston, TX), Paralegal Assistant, Outten and Golden (NYC), Civil Rights paralegal (Chicago), Tea Farm Ethnographer (Wazuka, Japan), Clinical Assistant, Hollywood Detox Center (L.A.), Humanize not Militarize intern, American Friends Service Committee (Chicago), Researcher, GLCA Library of Congress Research Initiative (Washington, D.C.), and Community Development intern, La Isla Foundation (Nicaragua).

Through these applied theory experiences, students leave Antioch ready to lead their generation in taking on the major challenges facing humanity in the twenty-first century.