THE SOCIAL SCIENCE STUDIES MAJOR AT UNLV:
Admission to the major:
GPA: 2.5

General Education Degree Requirements:
English Composition........6 credits
ENG 101 and 102
Literature Requirement.........3 credits
ENG 231 or 232
Constitutions Requirement.......3-6 credits
Mathematics Requirement.......3 credits
Distribution Requirement (Humanities & Fine Arts)  
Life & Physical Sciences & Analytical Thinking....9-10 credits

PHIL 102, and two courses from Life & Physical Sciences category: at least one must be a lab.
Multicultural & International Requirements 
(see Note 1).................6 credits

College of Liberal Arts Requirements:

Social Science.............................9 credits

Foreign Language or Foreign Culture.....6 creditsie
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Social Science Studies Major Core Requirements...................12 credits
IDS 201
Research Methods: ANTH 493, HIST 251, PSC 302, PSY 240, SOC 241, WMST 302
IDS 494
IDS 495A OR 495B (495B can only be completed as an Internship during the Summer). Courses must be taken in sequence.

Social Science Studies Concentration Requirements:
Students choose 42 credits from all available courses in the following Social Science departments: Anthropology, History, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, Women's Studies.
Students may complete a maximum of 21 credits from any one department.
Students must complete 6 credits in at least three Social Science departments.

Notes:
1) Every student must complete a three-credit multicultural course and a three-credit international course. Courses satisfying other requirements many simultaneously satisfy the multicultural and international requirements, except one course cannot satisfy both the multicultural and the international requirements.