Welcome to the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Clearwater Campus of St. Petersburg College.

Dr. Joseph Smiley, Dean, Social and Behavioral Sciences

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Our Mission Statement
With a focus on individual and social behavior in society, the mission of the Social and Behavioral Sciences Department on the Clearwater campus is to prepare students through a diverse core of courses in the disciplines of psychology, sociology, political science, anthropology, geography, economics and history to transfer to four-year colleges and universities, to become productive and responsible citizens, and to critically evaluate their relationship to the larger human family.

Social scientists employ qualitative and quantitative research methods, using questionnaires, focus groups, case studies, laboratory-based data collection, statistical sampling, ethnography, archival retrieval, and comparative approaches to the study of societies. Finally, theoretical frameworks in the discipline include a broad range of established and more recent contributions, all of which seek to explain and predict future human phenomena based on a body of reliable data.

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