• Acceptance of the intellectual obligation to subject personal preferences and inherited assumptions to the scrutiny of critical theory and the test of evidence
• An understanding of human beings within themselves and within their communities: a recognition of them biologically, socially, and historically
• Knowledge of the range of methods and interpretive structures, empirical and analytical, by which the social sciences investigate the lives of individuals and societies
• An ability to critically employ the methodologies of the social sciences

Contributors: Rudy Alexander, Rich Baldasty, Mary Ann Goodwin, Nancy Ohuche