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The Lenses of Liberal Arts Aspects of the Lens

Social Sciences

Natural Sciences

History

Key Characteristics What are some key characteristics?

Physiology, sociology, political science, economics, anthropology, human behavior, developmental studies, law, criminology, human relationships.

Study of the physical world, biology, astronomy, botany, physics, chemistry, observing and predicting, the Scientific Method.

Study of the past through artifacts, the study of events that occurred in the past, primary sources are used (photos, articles of clothing, journals, etc)

Study of worldwide cultures, dance, art, literature, song, photography, theater, human experience, human expression, cultural values.

Types of Questions What questions would a professional from this lens ask when studying a topic?

How do people interact? How can we work together? What are the personality traits of this person/these people? What defines a human?

What does the hypothesis prove? How can we test this certain experiment? What outcome will occur if we mix this with that? Is the data credible?

Why did this happen? What can we learn from the past? Will this happen again? Has anything changed since this event?

What is the artist conveying about the culture at that time? What can we learn about ourselves? How was this art made? What are these culture’s values? What does this tell us about human expression?

Types of Evidence How do professionals from each lens gather information? What sources are they using? (primary vs. secondary sources)

Primary and Secondary sources; Primary Sources- court documents, interviews, diaries, memoirs, legislations, laws, government documents, qualitative data.

Primary and Secondary sources; Primary Sources- Law and Theories, logical evidence, data (quantitative), scientific evidence, peer reviews, dissertations, lab notes and notebooks, physical observations (chemical

Primary and Secondary sources; Primary Sourcesartifacts, journals, photographs, articles of clothing, money/currency.

Primary sources; photography, literature, film, autobiographies, diaries, interviews, memoirs, architecture, critiques, and criticisms of art or literature, letters.

Secondary Sources-

Secondary Sourcesnewspapers, textbooks,

Humanities

Commonalities and Differences

scholarly articles, critiques of original interviews, court cases, etc., book and movie reviews.

reactions, organic matter, etc). Secondary Sourcestextbooks, review articles, scholarly articles, magazines.

articles, reproduction of a primary source, Encyclopedias, dictionaries, bibliographies, almanacs.

Commonalities: -History and Social Sciences both study people (individuals and society as a whole).

Commonalities: -All four lenses use Primary Sources to gather information.

Differences: -Social Sciences study human behavior; natural sciences study the physical world.

How are any of the above lenses (social science, natural science, history, and humanities) similar to each other?

-History and Social Sciences both study contributions made to society by people.

-Humanities and History both use philosophy, art, literature, song, and dance to identify human cultures.

How are the lenses different from each other?

-History and Social Sciences both use qualitative and quantitative data for research purposes.

-Natural Sciences and Social Sciences both influence health and safety measures, as well as regulations.

-Natural Sciences can have a controlled environment for experimentation; this is impossible for Social Sciences. -Theories and Laws can be experimented with and tested time and time again in Natural Sciences; this is difficult for Social Sciences.

Differences: -History relies on time (studying the past and how it affects us today); Social Sciences focus on what humans are doing today to impact society. -Social Sciences is made up of many other topics (psychology, archeology, political science); History is specified by time period. -History studies the “who, what, where, and when” of a situation; Humanities and Social Sciences study the “why and how”....