Competency Requirements

SS 1 Develop an understanding of social science methodologies.

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SS 2 Explore the causes and consequences of human actions.

Society's evolution does not follow a predetermined path. Every day, individual choices shape society's values, and those values in turn shape the development of new technologies and the creation of new methods of interacting. This essay from HIST 122 looks at how society's changing values and the subsequent rise of digital communications have profoundly altered the power traditionally held by the media.