"Behavioral science" requirement for JHU and others?

[dimebag darrell]

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Hi everyone,

I was flipping through the MSAR the other day and I noticed that JHU lists a requirement of 2 semesters or so of "behavioral science." I checked their website, and that says the following:

Humanities, Social and Behavioral Sciences: Applicants are required to complete at least 24 semester hours in these disciplines.

Does anyone know what the actual requirement is (i.e. anyone who has applied/been accepted to Hopkins)? Also, what is meant by "behavioral science?" Perhaps that's a dumb question, but the first thing that comes to mind for me is animal behavior, and for some reason I don't think that's it. Also, does anyone know of other schools with "behavioral science" requirements? I know flipping through the MSAR I saw at least one other, but I don't recall which (I don't own a copy of the MSAR).

Thanks for the clarification.

Cheers

 

[byeh2004]

I'm not sure if animal behavior would be behavioral science but typically its your psychology classes or sociology? im not sure about sociology but definite psyc is behav sci

 

[dimebag darrell]

I'm not sure if animal behavior would be behavioral science but typically its your psychology classes or sociology? im not sure about sociology but definite psyc is behav sci

Thanks for the reply; I was also thinking it could be like psych/soc. In any case, I'm more curious about what the actual requirement is in terms of # of classes/hours. I suppose if there is actually a conrete requirement of some type for such classes, I'm not going to JHU...

 

[diosa428]

My guess is that 24 semester hours = 5 or 6 classes, depending upon how many semester hours a class is at your school (at ours, one class = 4 semester hours). Social and behavioral sciences generally include psych, soc, anthropology, econ, gov. Humanities = english and other foreign languages. Also, history and just about every other non-science class would probably fit these requirements. Doesn't your school require you to take non-science classes? You probably should have fulfilled these requirements by the end of senior year anyway.

 

[dimebag darrell]

My guess is that 24 semester hours = 5 or 6 classes, depending upon how many semester hours a class is at your school (at ours, one class = 4 semester hours). Social and behavioral sciences generally include psych, soc, anthropology, econ, gov. Humanities = english and other foreign languages. Also, history and just about every other non-science class would probably fit these requirements. Doesn't your school require you to take non-science classes? You probably should have fulfilled these requirements by the end of senior year anyway.

Yes, you are right: by the time I graduate, I believe I will have exactly 24 non-science credits. However, I don't think any of them will necessarily be "behavioral science"; I think I will have mostly english, spanish, and history. I am curious if there is a specific requirement for behavioral science.

 

[diosa428]

Yes, you are right: by the time I graduate, I believe I will have exactly 24 non-science credits. However, I don't think any of them will necessarily be "behavioral science"; I think I will have mostly english, spanish, and history. I am curious if there is a specific requirement for behavioral science.

I don't know the answer to your question, but my guess is that the requirement is in place to ensure that you had a somewhat "well-rounded" education and didn't just take math and science classes for 4 years. Since they don't break it down and specifically say that you need a certain number of behavioral science credits, I would say that you're ok. You could always contact them just in case - but in the worst case scenario you've probably taken some course that you could argue was behavioral science.

 

[Em1]

Humanities also includes music and art... I got my humanities credits by taking music history 🙂